Stealth Startup

What does a stealth founder look like? Here are some of our inspirations for #StealthStartupTuesday this week, found with Harmonic: Sanjeev Kumar - Palo Alto-based building for enterprise cloud. Prev. Senior Director of Engineering @ Uber; ex-FB, Intel. CS PhD @ Princeton. He’s also a backpacking trip leader at Sierra Club, the climate advocacy organization. Priyanka Ahuja - London / Bengaluru-based building in global talent mobility. Prev. EU Growth Director @ Softbank-backed REEF. London Business School MBA. She also helps UK talent visa hopefuls with their applications through Topmate. Dr. Sybe Izaak Rispens - Berlin-based building in cyber. AI PhD @ Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Prev. Global Chief Information Security Officer @ Tentamus Group, ex-Klarna. He was also a senior lecturer at the German National Academic Foundation for years. Who’s inspiring you guys? Personally, while I think degrees can help, we see many great founders who didn’t go to top schools or college at all. Seems to me like the common denominator is a strong conviction to help the people that inherit the world after us 👬 ❤️ Sending you all the very best of luck to keep doing that! #startups #vc #founder #ai

A very Stealth Startup Tuesday indeed! Congrats 👨🏻💻 JT Cho on the feature in startup.stream!! For those who don't know: startup.stream posts cool, brand new startups before people are talking about them. It became popular because it's run by the anonymous VC @/Arfur Rock on X. This is the first fully stealth company they've posted - not even a name yet 🔥 #stealth #startup #vc #fintech

How do you choose your first investor? Happy Stealth Startup Tuesday! Everyone knows a16z, Sequoia, Index, YC, etc. But there seems to be little guidance for startups to navigate between the smaller and often more accessible VCs. These are the smaller early-stage firms (based on funds under management) with the most exits - for your consideration: 10 - The Hive 8 - Grit Capital Partners 7 - TFX Capital 6 - Stellation Capital, Tech Council Ventures, IPV Capital, Naples Technology Ventures 5 - Commonweal Ventures, Abstraction Capital, Leadout Capital, REMUS Capital, Cannage Capital 4 - AngelsDeck Global Ventures, Highline Capital Management, Great Wave Ventures, Fortson VC, Lateral Frontiers, Prudence, Earth Foundry, Counterview Capital, Vinyl Capital, Heartland Ventures Sourced with our fav Harmonic! Couldn't tag everyone due to LI rules :( Anyone else you guys know/recommend? Share please! #preseed #venturecapital #exit #startup

Name a VC that actually backs unconventional founders challenge (extreme hard mode)

We’ve got 5 super founders for this week’s Stealth Startup Tuesday 👊 but it’s easy with a map of the startup universe (Harmonic): 🦸 Emily Johns - Comp Bio PhD candidate @ Yale. Data and research at Stanford Med, Harvard Med, BW Hospital. 🦸 Danilo Barsotti - Ex-CTO @ idwall (backed by GGV, 500, Qualcomm). Serial tech exec. FGV MBA. 🦸 Amy Bearman - Former Sr. Eng Manager, Ads @ Meta. Published in GenAI + wearables. MS CS, Stanford. 🦸 Hong In Yun - Ex-Staff PM @ Intuit, PM @ Samsung Next Gen. Kellogg MBA. 🦸 Rhys Williams, Ph.D. - Ex-PM @ Meta, Head of Innovation @ Global Disability Innovation Hub. CS PhD, UCL. Some serious superpowers here - PhDs, unicorn execs, global PMs, and AI researchers from all over, all in one crew. Imagine if they formed the modern day Avengers... what would you ask them to build? Meme cred Lachlan Green 👑 #stealth #startup #preseed #superhero