Sourced Edition 17

Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, AI 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: Marco McCottry

Stealth since 2025

Geography: US

Background: Ex-big tech leader previously at Uber as the head of Central Operations in US & CEo of Wheels by Helbiz

Stealth

Founder: Moshe Baum

Stealth since 2025

Geography: US

Background: 2x Technical Founder - Mechanical Design Lead at Spacex, Apple and Tesla

Stealth

Founder: Jaideep Sarkar

Stealth since 2025

Geography: US

Background: Technical Founder as VP Software and ML Platform at SambaNova Systems, VP Engineering at Shift Technology, and Engineer Lead at Microsoft.

Stealth

Founder: Thiago Peres

Stealth since 2025

Geography: US

Background: 2x technical founder previously at Stripe, Whatsapp, Meta, & Booking.com

Stealth

Founder: Brian Colivet

Stealth since 2024

Geography: Ireland

Background: Big Tech Leader as Global Gaming Business Lead and Business Development & Partner Ecosystem at Meta/Facebook

🔍 Discover new Companies building in AI 🤖

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

Zeit AI

Geography: UK

Description: Insights from your tabular data with just a few words.

Founder Background: 2x Technical Founder previously ex-Palantir Technologies and machine learning at Amazon

Solo

Founder: Dhruv Diddi

Geography: US

Description: Solo is a business that provides on-device AI solutions, ensuring data privacy and offering a customizable experience.

Founder Background: 2x technical founder previous computer vision software engineer at Google & software engineer at Turo.

Paratrust.AI

Geography: Germany

Description: Paratrust AI develops next generation 3D simulations for AI systems.

Founder Background: 2x Technical Founder previously Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Bolt and sr. software engineer at TomTom.

Kivor

Geography: US

Description: Revolutionizing Application Support with AI Autonomous Agents.

Founder Background: Technical Big Tech Leader previously, Head of Product, Subscriber AI at Google, MD, Edge to Cloud products at Rockwell Automation and Cisco.

Hyperlint

Geography: US

Description: AI driven solutions for documentation management and authoring, specifically for developer products.

Founder Background: 2x technical founder previously sr deep learning engineer tat Arcee ai and sr. software engineer at databricks.

⏰ 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 👇

Akave

Description: Decentralized Data Management Network
Date Discovered: July 28, 2024
Round Announced: Nov. 11, 2024
Timing Alpha: 106 days


Geography: US
Amount Raised: $3.45M
Round: Pre-seed
Notable Investors: Protocol Labs, Blockchange Ventures, Lightshift Capital

Lume

Description: Automate data mappings using AI
Date Discovered: July 9, 2024
Round Announced: Nov. 12, 2024
Timing Alpha: 126 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $4.2M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures

Tranched

Description: On-chain embedded securitisation for financial transactions
Date Discovered: Apr. 30, 2024
Round Announced: Nov. 12, 2024
Alpha: 196 days

Geography: UK
Amount Raised: $3.4M
Round: Pre-seed
Notable Investors: Speedinvest, Kima Ventures, Blockwall

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