Sourced Edition 7

Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Cybersecurity signals, Round Advantage, Ammonia

Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Consumer Tech signals, Round Advantage, Counterstrike

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

Founder: Hardik Kabaria

Stealth since August 2023

Geography: Redwood City, United States

Background: Technical Founder, previously worked in an ex-unicorn company as the SVP of Software Engineering at Carbon.

Stealth

Founder: Muhammad Ramma

Stealth since June 2023

Geography: San Francisco, United States

Background: Technical founder in big tech companies and ex-unicorn companies as Autonomy Software Systems Engineer at Nuro and Tesla. Focus on Construction x Sustainability.

Stealth

Founder: Sven Jaeschke

Stealth since April 2024

Geography: Munich, Germany

Background: Technical Founder with PhD background working at Deep Spin as Head of Product and IQVIA as an Associate Consultant. Focusing on transforming the fragmented landscape of prevention.

Stealth

Founder: John Schwarz

Stealth since May 2023

Geography: Berlin, Germany

Background: Technical Founder in big tech companies and ex-unicorn companies as senior software engineer at Google and Revolut

Stealth

Founder: Ilya Beynenson

Stealth since May 2023

Geography: Miami, United States

Background: Leader at big tech companies as Global Head of Zero Trust Solutions at Google and Senior Technical Specialist - security and compliance at Microsoft.

🔍 Discover new Companies: Cybersecurity 🏗️

Here are some early stage Supply Chain & Logistics Tech startups we’ve sourced👇

Founder: John Canfield

Geography: San Carlos, United States

Description: Building verification and risk management that truly knows the business customer.

Founder Background: 2x technical founder and worked as a big tech leader as Sr. Director of Global Fraud & Risk Management at Ebay, VP Product at WePay, and Director Product Management for Ads Integrity at Google.

Geography: Lafayette, United States

Description: Enterprise AI Security Platform

Founder Background: 3x technical founder and worked as big tech leader as VP Oracle Unity at Oracle and VP of Product Development, Cloud Platform at Sungard Availability Services

Founder: Abhishek Bansal

Geography: San Francisco, United States

Description: Adaptive Authorization of Access

Founder Background: Technical Founder previously worked in big tech lead as Director of Product Management, Identity & Access Security & Compliance at Salesforce and Software Engineer at Google.

Founder: Bob Dirks

Geography: Netherlands

Description: Securing the Quantum Frontier

Background: 2x founder with PhD background. Previously worked as a senior systems architect quantum technology at TNO

Geography: Vienna, Austria

Description: Specialise in cutting-edge quantum crptography - Quantum Key Distribution

Background: 2x serial founder with PhD background. Previously Founder at Helivois AG and Project Manager at IQOQI.

⏰ 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 👇

Date Discovered: Jan. 17, 2024
Round Announced: July 30, 2024
Alpha timing: 195 days


Geography: US
Amount Raised: $2M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Leo Capital

Date Discovered: Jan. 11, 2024
Round Announced: July 26, 2024
Alpha: 197 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $2.5M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: LVP, Crush Ventures, Overwolf

Date Discovered: Jan. 11, 2024
Round Announced: July 23, 2024
Alpha: 194 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $16.3M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: RRE Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, Factorial Capital

⚔️ Market Mapping: Could Green Ammonia change the carbon footprint of agriculture?

Agriculture has an emissions problem but there is an ambitious new technology aiming to solve it: Green Ammonia

Traditional ammonia production for fertilizers is fossil fuel-intensive and emits significant CO2. Green Ammonia is made using hydrogen from water electrolysis and nitrogen from the air, producing no carbon emissions.

Why does this matter? Switching to green ammonia can drastically cut fossil fuel use in fertilizer production, aiding in the decarbonization of agriculture.

We leveraged the market mapper tool to find companies focusing on building green ammonia production, and here’s what we found 👇

Eneus Energy
Private Equity
Edinburgh, UK

Atmonia
$875K
Reykjavik, Iceland

Talus Renewables
$22M Series A
Austin, US

Jupiter Ionics
Total $8.4M Raised
Clayton, Australia

Nium
Total $3M, Seed
Harwell, UK

NitroFix
Total $4M, Seed
Perth, Israel

Amogy
Total $219M, Series B
Brooklyn, US

🌯 That’s a wrap!

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