Stealth Startup Spy #174 - September Highlights
A monthly round up of all September 2024 stealth activity. Full report available for download.
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After a great deal of data collection and months of analysis on over millions of founders and companies, I'm pumped to look back on the month of September and give you all the exclusive stealth insights within our September 2024 - Stealth Startup Report!
This is your one-stop shop to see everything we uncovered in September which goes far beyond the newsletter. All of our hard work gets distilled down in this report:
What founders went under stealth that weren’t featured in the newsletter.
What companies received funding in September that were featured in prior issues.
What companies exited stealth that weren’t featured in the newsletter.
Get Access > September 2024 - Stealth Startup Report
Let’s go deeper in this past month’s round up!
Quick Recap
Newsletter Stats… 527 new subscribers (26,047 total) and 103.9K newsletter reads in September.
Going Under Stealth… We featured 40 founders in September out of 1,484 founders we picked up who went into stealth mode (Access full list here)
Companies Exiting Stealth… We also covered 40 companies that have successfully exited stealth out of 617 total companies (Access full list here)
6 founders and companies we previously featured have successfully secured their first round of funding this past month (Access full list here)
7 companies have now raised additional capital since highlighted (Access full list here)
🕵️♂️Founders With The Most Clicks
Leveraging the clicks and engagement behavior from over 26,000 leading investors, here are the founders who gained the most attention in September
Suren Samarchyan – CEO at Stealth Startup
Background: Ex-VP of Engineering at Reddit (5+ year tenure), Stanford MBA
Adrienne Murga - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Background: Ex-Head of Ecosystems Analytics at Palo Alto Networks, ex-Head of Data Science, Data Engineering and Data Analytics at TextNow, ex-Manager, Strategy Data Analytics (Lead) at Facebook
Adithya J. - Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup
Background: Ex-Head of Product - Autonomous Mobility & Delivery, Driver Navigation at Uber, ex-Director of Product Management at Motive, ex-Product Manager at Lyft
Hamza Derbas - Co-Founder & CEO at Maven Robotics
Background: Ex-Director of Engineering at Apple, ex-Principal Research Engineer at Ford Motor Company, ex-Staff Software Engineer at A123 Systems, Harvard MBA
Sofus Macskassy - Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Stealth
Background: Ex-Director of Engineering, Data at LinkedIn, ex-VP Data Science at HackerRank, ex-Head of Data and Analytics at Branch Metrics, ex-Manager, Applied Machine Learning at Facebook
Get access to full insights by downloading the September 2024 - Stealth Startup Report
💰Prior Stealth Features Secure Funding
Founders and companies previously featured who have successfully secured significant funding rounds this month.
Two Boxes
Founder: Kyle Bertin – ex-Outrider, Flexport
Industry: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
Previously Featured: [April, 2023] – Raised $4.5M Seed
Latest Funding: $5.3M Series A (Peterson Ventures, Assembly Ventures, Vinyl Capital, Range Ventures, and Matchstick Ventures)
Two Boxes provides a returns processing solution designed to maximize the value of e-commerce returns while minimizing the negative impact on the planet, consumers, and businesses.
HQ: Denver, Colorado, United States
P0 Security
Founder: Shashwat Sehgal – ex-Splunk
Industry: Software Development
Previously Featured: [May, 2023]
Latest Funding: $15M Series A (SYN Ventures, Zscaler, Lightspeed Venture Partners)
P0 Security is a platform that secures and manages access to cloud systems by ensuring both people and automated systems have the correct permissions to prevent unauthorized access.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Push Cash
Founders: Eric Morse – ex-Plaid, Visa, Bain ; Andrew Coover – ex-Plaid, Yelp
Industry: Financial Services
Previously Featured: [July, 2023]
Latest Funding: $4M Seed (Foundation Capital)
Push Cash aims to reduce transaction risk and take a merchant’s payments costs close to zero.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Zeno
Founders: Michael Spencer – ex-Tesla ; Kenneth Micah – ex-Bolt
Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Previously Featured: [September, 2023]
Latest Funding: $9.5M Seed (Lowercarbon Capital, Toyota Ventures, 4DX Ventures, Active Impact, Advantedge, MCJ, RedBlue)
Zeno is an e-mobility startup that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
HQ: San Francisco, Nairobi, Bangalore
Fastn
Founder: Khalid Muaydh – ex-fabric, Amazon
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Previously Featured: [August, 2023]
Latest Funding: $2.6M Seed (LiveOak Ventures, Antler)
Fastn is a no-code, AI-powered orchestration platform for developers to connect any data flow and create hundreds of app integrations.
HQ: Austin, Texas, United States
Get access to full insights by downloading the September 2024 - Stealth Startup Report
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