Stealth Startup

Happy Stealth Startup Tuesday! Founders that have submitted their startup to Harmonic have raised over $175M since submitting, including: FlowIn - $150K, pre-seed, backed by Character Capital (Montreal) Always Friday - $1.3M, pre-seed, backed by Vento (Milan) Relocal - $320K, accelerator, backed by Antler (Kuala Lumpur) Novascope - $23.7M, Series B, backed by OEP GROUP 友華集團 (Hsinchu) Impact AI - $1.8M, accelerator, backed by Techstars (San Francisco) and many more. In fact Harmonic's investor users make up about 30% of those cap tables. Talk about a World Cup of dolla dolla bills yall!!!! Submit yours at link in bio and may the odds be ever in your favor 🥷🤞🧡 #openclaw #startup #stealth #worldcup

In honor of countries already confirmed to advance to the Round of 32, we give you American, German, and French stealth founders to watch 🥷 🌍 Shreyas NS Nair - prev. Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind (diffusion models & world models). 3+ years as Senior ML Scientist @ Tesla Autopilot leading perception & object detection. Quantitative Researcher @ Jane Street. MIT. Stanford. Based in SF. Erika W. - prev. Global VP & CMO @ adidas Originals and Studios with full P&L ownership. Head of Global Brand Marketing @ PayPal. Head of Brand Relevance @ Uber (won the brand's first Cannes Lion). Published by Harvard, McKinsey, Vogue. Based in Bavaria. Anton Barthelmess - prev. Consultant @ BCG, core Private Equity practice (25+ due diligences). Investor @ Picus Capital covering pre-seed to Series A. Yale School of Management & HEC Paris. Based in Paris. Who are you guys rooting for??? And as always, happy Stealth Startup Tuesday - brought to you by Harmonic! Attaching some inspo for my early stage founders 🩵 #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired #worldcup

25% of the companies on the new Harmonic Hot 25 started in stealth: 🧠 Simile (6) - generative agents that simulate human behavior 🔬 Periodic Labs (7) - autonomous labs for materials discovery 🔒 7AI (10) - autonomous agents for cybersecurity operations ⚖️ Sandstone (19) - platform for in-house legal teams 🛡️ Cogent (22) - automated vulnerability management 🔄 Ricursive Intelligence (25) - chip design via recursive self-improvement The Hot 25 looks at early stage startups getting the most investor attention. Ironic that so many of them were trying to avoid it 😶 Look forward to seeing you all make the next one!! #stealth #seed #hotstartups #acquired

❗New Harmonic Hot 25❗ Resolve AI joins Lovable as the only two startups to top the Harmonic Hot 25 twice! This comes after a $40M April extension of their Series A, this time at a $1.5B valuation. Up 50% form the February round. Salient jumps to second and our agent Scout believes they’ve surpassed $30M in revenue and are likely to raise early next year. Aaru and Simile land in 3rd and 6th. Both are building simulation platforms to take on legacy market research. Aaru raised in December, but X-following indicates interest from Benchmark, Khosla and Felicis 👁️ 👁️ Thousands of investors use Harmonic every day. These are the startups they’re watching most closely as we approach Q3: 🥇 Resolve AI - Spiros Xanthos, Mayank Agarwal 🥈 Salient - Ari M., Mukund Tibrewala 🥉 Aaru - Cameron Fink, Ned Koh, John K. 4️⃣ DualEntry - Santiago Nestares, Benedict Dohmen 5️⃣ Traversal - Anish Agarwal, Raaz Dwivedi, Raj Agrawal, Ahmed Lone 6️⃣ Simile - Joon Sung Park, Michael Bernstein, Percy Liang, Lainie Yallen 7️⃣ Periodic Labs - Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Liam Fedus 8️⃣ Brain Co. - Elad Gil, Jared Kushner Et al. 9️⃣ Higgsfield AI - Alex Mashrabov, Yerzat Dulat, Mahi de Silva 🔟 7AI - Yonatan Striem Amit, Lior Div See the full list in the comments.

Australia shocked Turkey 2-0 as heavy underdogs. Korea beat Czechia 2-1. Iran held NZ 2-2. And in their World Cup debut, Cape Verde shut out Spain 0-0, a team favored at -1200. Our three founders-to-watch, courtesy of Harmonic, come from underdog countries that have defied many a bracket this past week: 🇦🇺 Andrew Feutrill - prev. Head of Science @ Amazon, generating $550M+ in annualized revenue. Director of Science @ Darwinium (backed by Blackbird, Airtree, Naval Ravikant). Principal Research Scientist @ CSIRO's Data61, winning ~$2M in cybersecurity grants. PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide. 🇮🇷 Cyrus Safaie - prev. Director of Engineering & AI/ML @ DoorDash (companywide AI lead). Head of ML, Data Science & Economics @ Convoy, leading ~50 across ML, OR, and Economics (backed by Bezos, Benioff, Greylock, Sequoia). University of Tehran BS → UChicago MS in ML. 🇰🇷 Minyong Cho - prev. Senior ML Engineer @ Deeping Source (backed by Samsung Ventures, Global Brain). Published at NeurIPS ("Knowledge Extraction with No Observable Data"). Co-inventor on a granted US & Korea patent for cross-camera identity matching without facial recognition. Seoul National University MS, CS. ROK Army artillery officer. Massive congrats to these founders and their countries. Represent yours by submitting your startup - link in our bio 💅 #worldcup #stealth #preseed #founder

Hi again. Here are 3 stealth founders you don't want to miss, this Stealth Startup Tuesday! 🥷 Evan Ludwig - prev. 8 years Apple - Data Scientist in Product Marketing & Customer Analytics, iPhone Supply Chain Optimization, and iPad New Product Introduction (NPI) Ops Program Manager. Senior Consultant @ Guidehouse. Columbia MBA. Lisa Shcherbakova - prev. Consumer Growth Gumtree.com. Senior Product Marketing Manager @ Monzo. Senior PMM @ Depop. Growth Manager @ Skyscanner. 10+ years driving growth across Europe's biggest consumer platforms. Kyiv Polytechnic MEng. Kuu Hagan - prev. Product Manager Google Pixel. Led Android GTM Strategy across EMEA. Corporate Strategy @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise, working on M&A and go-to-market with the CEO's office. Ex-Included VC, angel investor, Dartmouth alum. Soon to release a v1! Submit your startup so Harmonic can share them with us - link in our bio 🧥 😊 #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired

Four fantastic founders for Stealth Startup Tuesday from Harmonic! Was feeling generous and alliterative today 🙂 Emily Peterson - prev. Health Tech Investing at KKR. Led clinical ops at Forward and launched their telemedicine platform. GM at Newfront Insurance (acquired by WTW). Stanford MBA. Texas A&M. Lawrence M. Chu - prev. Partner & Co-Chair of Global M&A at Goodwin. M&A Partner at Wilson Sonsini, ex-Davis Polk in NY and London. 28 years as one of Silicon Valley's preeminent corporate lawyers. Hashim Rehman - London-based. Prev. CTO & Co-Founder at Entropy (YC S24). Led pricing tech across ride-hail, food & groceries at Careem. Before that, building consumer at Deliveroo. King's College London CS (First-Class Honours). Hemanth Chittanuru - prev. Sr. ML Engineer at DoorDash, applying Language & Vision models to catalog understanding. Tech Lead at Arena Physica (backed by Founders Fund & Peter Thiel). Georgia Tech MS & BS. You can submit your special startup at the link in our bio. Alliteration is fun guys. #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired

3 stealth founder-PhDs that I don't want to compete with, sourced with Harmonic. Happy Stealth Startup Tuesday 🥷 Oliver Zahn, PhD - prev. Head of Data Science Google. Senior Data Scientist @ SpaceX, improving Falcon 9 & Crew Dragon safety ahead of the first crewed flight. >19,000 citations & h-index: 73. Founded Climax Foods, featured on The Late Show. Dual PhDs from Harvard & Heidelberg in Astrophysics. Scott Reed - prev. Principal Research Scientist NVIDIA (Embodied AI Agents). 8 years as Senior Staff Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind. Machine Learning PhD from UMich, advised by Honglak Lee (who was himself advised by Andrew Ng!). Benjamin Eisner - prev. ML/Robotics Intern Tesla, building Optimus's brain & visual intelligence. Robotics Research Scientist @ Google DeepMind. ML Research Engineer @ Samsung AI Center. Robotics PhD @ Carnegie Mellon, B.S.E. from Princeton. ICLR-published. Tell me what you're building at the link in bio! Cheers to another week of trial and error and trying again 🫰 #stealth #preseed #founder #robotics #acquired

Back with 3 incredible stealth founders this Stealth Startup Tuesday 🥷 Mark Faridani - prev. ML Engineering Manager Apple for nearly 10 years. Before that, Applied Researcher @ Microsoft. Berkeley PhD in Operations Research + MS in CS. Rachel Moore - prev. Principal Product Manager Atlassian. Serial product leader @ Upstart (pre-IPO), Pilot AI (backed by DoD). Caltech BS in Chemical Engineering. Stanford GSB MBA. Now building AI for family caregiving. Anna daftari - Berlin-based. Prev. Chief BCM Officer N26 (backed by Peter Thiel), CoS at Project A Ventures, and Growth Director @ Enpal. Partner @ 403CAP, in addition to stealth. Submit your startup at the link in our bio! And if you have a partner holding it down, don't forget to thank them : ) #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired