Sourced Edition 16

Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Fintech 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 AI

Founder: Ben Wallace

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: Big Tech leader previously Director, Product Marketing at Linkedin, Head of Marketing, AR & Visual Search at Amazon and Head of Product Marketing at Uber.

Stealth

Founder: Kevin Tsang

Stealth since 2025

Geography: UK

Background: 2x Technical Founder, previously Executive Director at AstraZeneca. Building foundational cell models for cell therapies.

Stealth

Founder: Kat Slump

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: 2x Technical Founder previously founding engineer at Phia, Sr. software engineer at Pave and Engineering manager at Humu.

Stealth

Stealth since 2025

Geography: Portugal

Background: 2x founder VP at RIWI and Co-founder at Research on Mobile. Building in data & gaming

Stealth

Founder: Simon Klinkert

Stealth since 2025

Geography: Germany

Background: 2x Technical Founder previously Tech Lead at Trade Republic and sr. backend engineer at fromAtoB.

🔍 Discover new Companies: Fintech 💸

Here are some early-stage early-stage startups working on fintech👇

Occam AI

Geography: UK

Description: Intelligent automation engine for finance

Founder Background: Technical founder previously worked as Director Engineer at Monzo Bank & VP Data at DueDil

RAO

Founder: Chiraayu Sethi

Geography: UK

Description: Risk & Compliance AI for fintechs

Founder Background: 3x Technical Founder previously sr. product manager at Revolut, product manager at Citymapper

Jarsy

Founder: Chunyang S.

Geography: US

Description: Blockchain infrastructure for global investment marketplace to blue-chip assets.

Founder Background: Founding Engineer at Afterpay, Software Engineer, Software Engineer at Uber

Tensec

Geography: US

Description: International Payments Services tailored to accelerate SMB's growth in cross-border services.

Founder Background: 2x technical founder and big tech leader, previously CPO at Rapyd, Sr. VP at Visa, Global Head of Commerce Partnerships at Facebook and Head of Market Expansion at Paypal

Niva

Geography: US

Description:  Making it effortless to trust legitimate businesses anywhere in the world.

Founder Background: Technical founder previously director of engineering at Chime, engineering manager at Coinbase, and Software Engineer at Gusto!

⏰ 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 👇

Advex

Date Discovered: Jan. 17, 2024
Round Announced: Nov. 4, 2024
Alpha: 292 days


Geography: US
Amount Raised: $3.5M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Construct Capital, Pear VC< Emerson Collective

Corgea

Date Discovered: Aug. 8, 2023
Round Announced: Nov. 6, 2024
Alpha: 456 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $2.6M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Shorooq Partners, Decacorn Capital, Unbound Ventures

Theremia Health

Date Discovered: Mar. 18, 2024
Round Announced: Nov. 7, 2024
Alpha: 234 days

Geography: France
Amount Raised: $3.1M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Salica, Eurazeo, Bpifrance, TinyVC

🌯 That’s a wrap!

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