Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

We recently invested in Osano , which is led by the very talented Arlo Gilbert and is currently in stealth mode. By contrast, MOON is going to launch soon and is not in stealth mode at all. We went with the stealth mode approach prior to our launch, as I’ll reflect on at the bottom of this lesson. I could waste no time.

Stealth 48

Stealth Cofounder Los Angeles Technical Review 48

Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

Notable names like BirchBox, Blue Apron, Cloudflare, and Rent the Runway were launched by these MBA grads. On the number of founders and companies: Some people are likely in stealth mode, and haven’t self-identified themselves currently as founders, which is merely a known bias in the study. in capital. Quite the contrary.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Stealth Warrant Venture Capital 100

Version One Ventures

APRIL 2, 2015

At the time, they chose not to announce the funding, following a more general trend of going stealth. When I first met Carl Mercier (who founded VarageSale with his wife Tami in December 2012), I instantly knew that they had found a way to solve this problem in a very scalable way. They have scaled quickly to more than 50 employees.

Stealth 60

Stealth Social Network Mobile Networking 60

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. You can probably think of household names in each of those categories.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. You can probably think of household names in each of those categories.

Internet 100

Internet Stealth Cofounder Seed Stage 100

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager Labs (2012) – cognitive computing for understanding human behaviour. The company emerged from stealth in November 2016 and announced a $100 million investment round from Sir Ronald Cohen, Lloyd Dorfman, OCAPAC Holding Company, and Horizons Ventures. Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

A few of these have become known tech names, such as Wildfire Interactive (acquired by Google), Behance (acquired by Adobe), Rent the Runway, Cloudflare, Blue Apron, and more. All eyes on you, classes of 2012, 2013, 2014! Incredibly, the 266 HBS alumni I identified have collectively raised over $2.5 billion in venture funding.

North America 120

North America Founder Cofounder San Francisco 120