Sourced Edition 15

Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Dev Tools Signals, & Round Advantage

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🥷🏽 Fresh Stealth Founders

Landscape automatically monitors every founder entering stealth mode. There are currently 19.9k founders in stealth - are you tracking them?

Here are some interesting profiles we discovered recently 👇

Stealth

Founder: Faisal Siddiqi

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: 2x Technical Founder, previously Director of Machine Learning Platform at Netflix and Director of Engineering at Conviva

Stealth

Founder: Avishai Linde

Stealth since 2024

Geography: Ireland

Background: Big Tech leader as Head of Gaming Apps at Google and Sr. Client Solutions Manager at Meta.

Stealth

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: 2x technical founder with previous experience as Deep Learning Tech Lead at Amazon and Sr. Machine Learning Scientist at Apple.

Stealth

Founder: Nino Munafo

Stealth since 2024

Geography: Netherlands

Background: 2x Founder with previous experience as Head of Operations at Gorillas and Getir. Building in the intersection of Food, Lifestyle and Consumer.

Stealth

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: Big Tech Leader as Head of Life Sciences at Palantir Technologies and ex-Goldman Sachs

🔍 Discover new Companies: Developer Tools 🛠️

Here are some early-stage early-stage startups working on developer tools👇

Neurelo

Founder: Guru Kamat

Geography: US

Description: Cloud APIs for Databases

Founder Background: 2x Technical Founder, Head of Security Foundations Engineering at Stripe, VP of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks and VP of Engineering at Acalvio Technologies.

Geography: Netherlands

Description: Platform for users to build, share, and sell their AI tools by copying and pasting them into existing products and services.

Founder Background: 2x Technical Founder as Product Manager at Kubrio and Educational Content Design at Zapier.

D. Science Co. (Radien)

Founder: Rushil Khurana

Geography: US

Description: AI-powered code analysis platform designed to track and manage components across front-end and design systems.

Founder Background: Technical Founder, EIR at Allen Institute for AI and HCI Research at Carnegie Mellon University.

Stack Auth.

Geography: Switzerland

Description: Open-source alternative to AuthO, specializing in authentication, authroization and user management solutions.

Founder Background: 2x Technical Founder and YC Founder.

Aymara

Geography: US

Description: Automated red teaing solutions for GenAI developers for creating custom red team tests, scoring test results and reduce unsafe genai responses, jailbreaking and halluncinations.

Founder Background: 2x Founder, EIR at Antler and Head of Content and Creator Equity at Spotify, Sales & Partnerships at Pinterest and X.

⏰ Timing Alpha

Timing is everything in venture! We started measuring the time difference between when companies publicly announce their funding round and when they’re discovered on Landscape!

Here are some timing alpha of companies we’ve sourced recently 👇

River Platform Company

Date Discovered: June 11, 2023
Round Announced: Oct. 15, 2024
Alpha: 344 days


Geography: US
Amount Raised: $1.5M
Round: Pre-Seed
Notable Investors: Blue Wire Capital, Blockwall, Launch

Synply

Date Discovered: June 8, 2024
Round Announced: Oct. 21, 2024
Alpha: 135 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $4.8M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Canapi Ventures

Crew AI

Date Discovered: Jan. 9, 2024
Round Announced: Oct. 22, 2024
Alpha: 287 days

Geography: Seed
Amount Raised: $4M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Boldstart Ventures, Insights Partners

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