crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

… Checking In on Foursquare’s Valuation – [link]. The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode – [link]. Just got acquired? 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co. – [link]. The danger of waiting to long to find a business model? Who says startups are easy | Om Malik – [link].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Thumbs up Benny Porat and team Twine Security on coming out of stealth with a $12M seed round to automate security tasks starting with identity management! We have to support each other and don’t forget that there’s people that need our help. seed round to accelerate drug discovery and development with AI!

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Eliat Shemesh, Interdisciplinary Research Leader NEW VENTURE ROUNDS Now it’s confirmed, it’s time to congratulate Amiram Shachar and team Upwind Security on their $100M series B at a $900M valuation for their cloud security platform ! Mazel tov Or Israel and team bananaz on coming out of stealth with $5.3M

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In the last six months quantum computing companies IonQ , D-Wave and Rigetti went public at valuations close to a billion and half dollars. It can use fewer emissions to get the same detection result, for better detection accuracy at the same power levels – even detecting stealth aircraft. So why the excitement about quantum?

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

On the back of this momentum, Melio today announced a $110m funding round, rocketing the company to a valuation of $1.3b just months after it came out of stealth. And he and his co-founders Ziv and Ilan made it happen: Melio’s now processing multi-billion dollar payment volumes less than two years after launch.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 14, 2025

valuation to complete the acquisition of PayU ! Well done Guy Flechter and team Sola Security on coming out of stealth with $30M in seed funding to offer cybersecurity protection to small and medium businesses! based on recent report by Fusion VC ( source ) In the years 2015-2024 Israeli startups in stealth raised over $125M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective. Looking in the right place for the wrong investor won’t help you.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The valuation of Safe Superintelligence Inc. billion valuation ) to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for governments and national organisations! ? Way to go Ronit Belson and team Sawmills on coming out of stealth with a $10M seed round to transform telemetry data management with AI!

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

Donations/pledges – Patreon, the early mover of creator monetisation tools, raised $155M on a $4 billion valuation in April 2021 , tripling the valuation from a previous round in Sept 2020. We’ve made several investments in the space (some are still in stealth).

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Big congrats Yevgeny Dibrov and team Armis on your $200M series D (at a valuation of $4.3 Mabruk Matan Bar and team Melio on your $150M series E (at $2 billion valuation ) to integrate cash flow management, accounts receivable and accounts payable solutions! billion), to protect the entire attack surface of companies!

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The following are some issues to consider and actions to take before accepting an incubator’s offer: (1) Calculate Valuation and Determine Value. Pre-money valuations startups receive from incubators are typically low…really low. The “revised for the cash investment only&# pre-money valuation is $600,000. (2)

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

Friends and family are key at the idea and early development stages, when you have minimal business valuation. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective. Looking in the right place for the wrong investor won’t help you.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

made a big splash this week when they announced their $1 billion “seed” round (at $5 billion valuation) to deliver safe superintelligence. NEW FUNDING ROUNDS Congratulations Ofir Ehrlich and team EON (still in stealth) for raising $80M at a rumoured $800M valuation 9 months from inception! on your $18.5M

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

Day one lead/co-lead in 14 founding teams: (most still in stealth) representing ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ??, ?? Day one to scale: Huge congrats on milestone valuations realized for dev first security company Snyk ($8.6B) and fellow security startups BigID ($1.25B) and Security Scorecard (almost ?) And our portfolio continued to grow: ?

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

And our portfolio continued to grow: Day one lead/co-lead in 14 founding teams: (most still in stealth) representing , , , , , , Continued investments in developer first, SaaS, and crypto infrastructure companies.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Generative AI is a beacon of hope In this grim scenario, Artificial Intelligence, and more specifically Generative AI, emerges as the global industry’s lifebuoy, attracting investments and elevating valuations of entities across the spectrum. The actual amount might be higher as companies choose to stay in stealth for longer.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

In fact, I recently had dinner with a well-known VC who said that he was surprised to see the CB Insights database includes investments his firm has made in stealth companies which haven’t even been announced yet. CB Insights has become a very influential data source in the industry. He said he had no idea how CB Insights got that data.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

At what valuation? It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. So if two investors even go so far as to agree to fix prices, which is issue 1, the company should say no thanks to that valuation and keep shopping for other lenders, of which there are many, to get a better price. Convertible or equity?

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Skip to content Tina MVC for WordPress « Finding The Need for International Pay-Per-Click Campaigns Lijit: A Fun Tool in Your PPC Arsenal » The Stealth Mode: Trada’s Position on Staying Stealth Debate: Stay Stealth? One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

As well as tripling the company’s valuation to $4 billion since January 2021, the round came as the company grew its monthly processing volumes by 5,000% in 18 months. You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode. Let’s talk about your financing strategy.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 12, 2017

Then we spent 12 months building a product in stealth mode that was so wrong we scrapped it during the beta as soon as we got our first real user feedback on it. Every extra sign of life you can prove while bootstrapping is going to boost your valuation and equate to free money. There goes another cool quarter million.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

This will have huge implications on your paid search strategy, your valuation of clicks you get from Google and Bing. I was advising a stealth mobile application company (hello future one billion Facebook dollars!) " Sure, not all 209 million will end up on your site, but you define the pets category! So do the right thing.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

Good stuff Maya Cohen and team Monto for coming out of stealth with a $9M seed round for your e-invoicing platform to bring order to B2B payments! Nice job Shmuel Bachinsky and team Quantum Transistors on securing $17.5M in grant funding from the EU to make quantum computing accessible to everyone!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Bitcoin topped a record of all time at $87,000, Chinese gaming giant Tencent reported 47% surge in profits from gaming and AI, and Perplexity is nearing $500M funding round at $9 billion valuation as it started introducing ads. on coming out of stealth with $9.5M Asaf Yanai and team Alison.ai on securing a $13.3M seed round (an $8.2

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2024

ServiceTitan went public with a $9 billion valuation – is the IPO window opening? Kol hakavod Alan Bekker, PhD and team eSelf AI for coming out of stealth with a $4.5M Midjourney launched Patchwork , a virtual world building tool. Devin, the AI coding Agent by Cognition is now generally available.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2025

and team Orchid Security for coming out of stealth with a $36M seed round to to automatically identify the security requirements for each of their customers’ internal applications! EXITS Big congrats Yoni Assia and team eToro for filing to IPO with a target valuation of $5 billion!

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

Fast forward six months, and OpenAI is in talks of raising $40 billion, at a valuation of $340 billion. Ilya Sutskever’s SSI is currently raising money at $20 billion valuation (pre-launch) and the list goes on. This week, Anthropic announced a $3.5 billion round, valuing the company at $61.5

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Databricks secured a new $10B funding round at a $62B valuation and Perplexity raised $500M at $9 billion valuation. Google launched a new ‘reasoning’ model, Gemini 2.0 Flash , and announced it will launch an ‘ AI search mode ‘ to compete with new rival chatbots. There have been some BIG rounds.

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