View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And seed VCs, especially as new firms were being established, were eager to encourage their portfolio startups to plant that flag in the ground publicly. There are legitimate reasons for a startup to be in stealth mode. It seemed like every other TechCrunch post was announcing a startups’s new seed financing round. What’s going on?

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2022

We’re very excited to announce our investment in Inflection.io , as the company comes out of stealth with a $5M seed round. Inflection is purposefully built to meet the demands of product-led companies, enabling tailored marketing campaigns across the customer lifecycle. If you wanted to buy new software, you talked with a salesperson.

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B2B Product Stealth Marketing 105

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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Architecture Stealth Agile Distribution 121

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

However, a diversified investment portfolio is recommended especially for new investors who want to test the waters. Its value depends mainly on the law of supply and demand. There is always a stable and increasing demand for gold especially in the jewellery industry. With gold investments, failure is never an option.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

But you want relevant traffic and an actual purpose for driving those leads — letting them sit around on a list, rarely if ever hearing from you as you build product, is not an effective demand-gen tactic. They aren’t great demand-gen channels. Fourth, keep investors in mind when you announce.

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Startup PR Cofounder Stealth 120

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. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

Internet 100

Internet Cofounder Stealth 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. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

Internet 100

Internet Cofounder Stealth Seed Stage 100

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Israel’s strong talent pool and focus on enhancing existing infrastructure make it well-suited to address the growing demand for cloud-based AI Ops platforms and efficient data management solutions. At Remagine Ventures, about half of our portfolio companies are building in the vertical and horizontal AI categories.

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Israel Vertical Artificial Inteligence Generative AI 97

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers.

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Security Artificial Inteligence Stealth SEC 78

BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We kicked it off Sunday night with a boldstart founders and execs dinner where we talked about what’s next in cybersecurity with some of our portfolio companies like security scorecard , bigid , snyk , stealth co and many friends from the industry representing strategic partners and IT buyers.

Security 74

Security Artificial Inteligence Stealth SEC 74

Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

"OMG we spend mmm millions on TV, Radio and Magazines trying to create demand by interrupting people. Should we rethink the balance between 'interrupting to possibly create demand' and 'welcoming with open arms people who want to hear from us'?" The opportunity is too large and too relevant to ignore.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

« Reasonable Demands |. Stealth Mode. I’ve recently been introduced to a number of startups that are operating in “stealth mode,” and have been thinking about what to make of this fact. In a post yesterday, Keith Robinson clearly articulated one of my conclusions, “I’ve heard quite a bit about start-ups and “stealth mode.”

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Combining the bottom up, user-driven model with forward thinking IT execs has resulted in shortened enterprise sales cycles across our portfolio and some phenomenal reference customers. and we expect this trend to continue.

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Stealth Canada Azure Architecture 78

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Before diving into the standard year-end predictions on the enterprise, I thought I would share some data on our firm and our founding teams from 2016: we welcomed 9 new enterprise founding teams to the portfolio including Workrails (started by venture partner Jeff Leventhal), BigID , Hypr , Init.ai , and 5 stealth companies.

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Stealth Canada Azure Architecture 60

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? Every VC will tell you that they will take meetings with 100% of the companies that their existing portfolio founders recommend. It also helps validate the demand for your product. Guarding The "Big Idea".

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

Vertical AI Even with the commoditisation of foundational models, vertical AI is a huge opportunity because it addresses complex, industry-specific demands with tailored functionalities, deep integrations, and specialised workflows. Below are three examples of potential winners. Madrona’s Jon Turow has a great primer on this.

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Technical Review Vertical Open Source Generative AI 88