Sourced Edition 23

Bi-Weekly Report of Data-Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Defense Tech and deals you've missed

Welcome to Sourced, from your friends at Landscape 🏔️

Sourced is our data driven newsletter for early stage startup investors. All of the intelligence in this newsletter was gathered exclusively by leveraging our platform. In this edition, we’ll be leveraging our Founder Ranking Algorithm to surface what we think are the most interesting founders building in stealth and legal tech!

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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: Barak Ben-Noon

Stealth since 2025

Geography: US

Background: Technical founder, previously software engineer at Google, Blackrock and Goldman Sachs.

Stealth

Founder: Sonia Mehta

Stealth since 2025

Geography: US

Background: Big Tech Leader at IBM as Head of Engineering & Product and Head of Software Development at Brightloom

Stealth

Founder: Robin Lobo

Stealth since 2025

Geography: US

Background: 2x Founder previously a Sr. Manager at Ebay

Stealth

Founder: Jean-Baptise K.

Stealth since 2025

Geography: US

Background: Technical Founder previously Director of Operations at Trade Republic and Director of Strategic Partnerships and Corp dev at Revolut

Stealth AI

Stealth since 2024

Geography: US

Background: Technical founder, previously head of product for Rappi and Program manager at Google.

🔍 Discover new Companies building in Defense Tech

Here are some early-stage startups working on Defense Tech Sector👇

Deterrence

Geography: US

Description: Building faster and safer energetics production to strengthen the US defense industrial base

Founder Background: 2x Technical Founder, previously CPO at Latch, Head of Product at Main Street Genome.

Wild West Systems

Founder: Moshe Baum

Geography: US

Description: Autonomous drone solutions aimed at modernizing defense strategies to protect critical assets.

Founder Background: Technical Founder, previously Apple & Tesla as a mechanical design enegineer.

Alaris Defense

Founder: Kevin Holder

Geography: US

Description: developing the next generation of manufacturing technologies.

Founder Background: Big Tech Leader previously VP at Nexa3D and VP of Governemnt Operations at Essentium.

Harmattan AI

Geography: France

Description: Building the Future of Autonomous Warfare. With Speed and Intelligence

Founder Background: Technical Founder, previously Head of Machine Learning at Withings and Sr. Technical Lead at Parrot

Geography: UK

Description: AI camoflage as a service.

Founder Background: Previously worked at Wrapmat, Cruise Fisker and Rivian.

⏰ 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 👇

Linguana

Date Discovered: Jan. 11, 2024
Round Announced: Apr. 2, 2025
Timing Alpha: 447 days


Geography: US
Amount Raised: $8.5M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Two Lanterns Venture capital

Further AI

Date Discovered: July 24, 2024
Round Announced: April 2, 2025
Timing Alpha: 252 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $5.0M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Nexus Venture Partners, Pioneer Fund

Twin Knowledge

Date Discovered: Sept 17, 2024
Round Announced: April 2, 2025
Alpha: 197 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $3.7M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Camber Creek, Great Wave Ventures

🌯 That’s a wrap!

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