Sourced Edition 9

Bi-Weekly Report of Data Driven Sourcing & Screening - Stealth Founders, Mobility Signals, Round Advantage, AI Sales Agent

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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: Zainab G.

Stealth since August 2024

Geography: San Francisco, US

Background: 2x Technical Founder working in Unicorn companies as Head of Product at Canva and Airbnb and Tech lead at Facebook.

Stealth

Founder: Stam M.

Stealth since July 2024

Geography: Zurich, Switzerland

Background: 2x Technical Founder previously working as a technical staff at OpenAI and Google Deepmind with PhD from Stanford.

Stealth AI

Founder: Moe Tanabian

Stealth since April 2024

Geography: Los Angeles, US

Background: Technical Founder and Big Tech Leader previously working as CPO at Cognite, Global VP at Microsoft Azure AI, Corporate VP at Samsung Electronic and Amazon AWS Engineering Lead.

Stealth AI

Founder: Ali Siddiqui

Stealth since January 2024

Geography: Seattle, US

Background: 2x Technical Founder and Big Tech Leader, currently co-founder at InnoEdgeCo, previously Head of Engineering at Stripe and Sr. Director Microsoft and Oracle.

Stealth

Stealth since August 2023

Geography: Pirkanmaa, Finland

Background: Technical Founder previously as a team lead at Heltti, Lead Developer at Avanio, Sr. Developer at Microsoft and Chief Engineer at Nokia.

🔍 Discover new Companies: Mobility 🚘

Here are some early stage Mobility Tech startups we’ve sourced👇

Geography: UK

Description: Fleevo is the first AI-powered Data Integration and Analytics System for Commercial Fleets.

Founder Background: Technical Founder previously Software Engineer at Meta and Palantir Technologies.

Founder: Paul Lellouche

Geography: United States

Description: GridKit helps improve electric vehicle charger reliability and real-world availability by automating EV charger operations & maintenance with proactive failure alerts, remote diagnostics, and simplified remediation.

Founder Background: Technical Founder previously working Energy Analyst at Tesla

Founder: Benjamin Travis

Geography: Germany

Description: AI automotive repair dignostic service providing step by step instructions and 3D models for various specifications.

Founder Background: 2x Technical Founder previously working as Head of Product at 36T Advisory, Product leader at Daimler AG and Sr. Product Manager at Adobe.

Geography: United Kingdom

Description: Specializing in all-weather perception technology for self-driving cars. Their prodcut utilizes cross-modal radar-camera self-supervised learning to operate reliabily in various weather conditions including fog, rain, and snow.

Background: Technical Founder previously working at technical staff at Nokia Bells, Sr. Wireless Systems Engineer at Toumaz and Phy Comss Design Engineer at Imagination Technologies.

⏰ 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: Nov. 6, 2023
Round Announced: Sept. 2, 2024
Alpha timing: 301 days


Geography: Ireland
Amount Raised: $1.9M
Round: Pre-Seed
Notable Investors: Elkstone Capital Partners

Date Discovered: Jan. 11, 2024
Round Announced: Sept. 3, 2024
Alpha: 236 days

Geography: US
Amount Raised: $3.3M
Round: Seed
Notable Investors: Flyover Capital, High Alpha

⚔️ Competitor Analysis: 11x AI Agents for the Future of Digital Work

Pioneering AI start up 11x has closed $24M Series A Funding Round with leading investors such as Benchmark, 20VC, Project A and many others.

GTM tools have become extremely fragmented from CRM, marketing automation platforms to sales engagement tools and data enrichment services. 11x is redefining the workforce by developing AI-powered digital workers that autonomously execute workflows in revenue teams.

We leveraged the market mapper tool to find companies focusing on building AI agents related to sales, and here’s what we found 👇

People AI
$200M
USA

Boundo
Pre-Seed
USA

Artisan
Seed $7.3M
USA

CoPilot AI
Seed $5.8M
Canada

Sailes
Series A $5.1M
USA

Bounti AI
Seed $10M
USA

AiSDR
Seed $3M
USA

Alice Labs
Seed $500K
Singapore

Persana AI
Pre-seed $500K
USA

🌯 That’s a wrap!

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