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Sourced Edition 18
Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Web 3 & Blockchain Signals, & Round Advantage
Gabriel Shin
February 05, 2025
Welcome to Sourced, from your friends at Landscape 🏔️
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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: James Stirrat-Ellis Stealth since 2024 Geography: US Background: 2x technical founder, previously CPTO at 11x.ai. |
 Stealth | Founder: Todd Zino Stealth since 2024 Geography: UK Background: 2x Technical Founder leading CTO roles at Nous, By Miles, Trussle, Red Ventures, Bankrate Inc. Building across CRM and AI. |
Stealth | Founder: Guilherme Coelho Stealth since 2024 Geography: Germany Background: 2x Technical Founder, previously Head of USer experience Y42, Product Manager at Scalable Capital & Freeletics. |
Travel Startup | Founder: Greg Wilczek Stealth since 2024 Geography: US Background: Big Tech Leader as Head of Travel for Google, Global Head of Travel Services at Credit Suisse, and Director of Global Travel at Marsh & McLennan. |
Stealth | Founder: Xianjun Zhang Stealth since 2024 Geography: US Background: Big Tech Leader, previously Head of Engineering at TikTok, Software Engineer at Facebook and Airbnb. Community builder at Silicon Valley Tech Community. |
🔍 Discover new Companies building in Web 3.0 & Blockchain ⛓️💥
Here are some early-stage early-stage startups working on Web 3.0 & Blockchain👇
 F3nix | Founder: Cedric Mesnil Geography: France Tagline: Deliver next generation of web3 security solutions. Founder Background: 2x Technical Founder, previous experience as Sr. Software engineer at BYSTAMP and Co-founder at Ledger. |
 powdr labs | Founder: Leo Alt Geography: Germany Tagline: powdr makes ZK applications future-proof by providing modular, flexible, and upgradeable tooling Founder Background: Technical Founder, Verification Lead at Ethereum Foundation and IBM. |
 Glide | Founder: Tushar Soni Geography: US Description: Let your users pay for onchain transactions on any chain with any token Founder Background: Technical Founder, previously a software engineer at Robinhood, Uber and Apple |
 Rhinestone | Founder: Kurt Larsen Geography: UK Description: Unlock powerful onchain products with seamless ux infrastructure for modular smart accounts. Founder Background: Product Manager at Deliveroo and M&A at Deutsche bank. |
 Dakko AI | Founder: Theo Venturian Geography: UK Description: Unified platform for AI in Web3 Founder Background: 3x founder with previous experience as AI transformation lead at Google and co-founder at Cloud Pioneer and customer voice. |
⏰ 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 👇
 General Translation | Description: SaaS that offers language translation services.
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 Bluespine | Description: AI-driven claims cost reduction technology for self-insured enterprises |
 Zeplyn | Description: AI assistant for financial advisors, automating admin tasks and generating accurate meeting notes. |
🌯 That’s a wrap!
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