Stealth Startup

Happy Stealth Startup Tuesday! With Thanksgiving coming up, we’re feeling very grateful for the amazing founders that make up this community. We’ve truly enjoyed spending this year with you ❤️ This week, we wanted to highlight a few startups laser-focused on driving social impact that recently emerged from stealth - found with Harmonic: 🦃 TapdIn -> social networking platform that utilizes AI-driven matching to connect underrepresented communities with professional opportunities 🦃 tenMore -> storytelling platform that captures spoken narratives through personalized questions 🦃 Independent Science Initiative -> collaborative platform that connects individuals to scientific research projects tailored to their skills and interests 🦃 ChatGPTree -> subscription service that leverages GPT-4 technology to enhance user productivity while simultaneously supporting environmental sustainability through the monthly planting of verified trees 🦃 PulseLocale -> community project discovery platform that enables residents to find and engage with local initiatives through an interactive map There are so many ways to give back, and it’s especially inspiring when you can combine that with your life’s work. Call it the 996 for good. Wishing everyone a lovely start to the holiday season, and hopefully a well-deserved break! 🍁 #thanksgiving #stealth #gratitude #AIforgood #socialimpact

Happy Slush week and Stealth Startup Tuesday! Congrats to the 10 Slush 2025 startups that emerged from stealth this year with the most investor attention on Harmonic: Pally (YC S25) - personal relationship-management platform Dragonfly - software discovery & recommendations Epiminds - AI-powered marketing agents Nautica Technologies - autonomous robotics for maritime ops Happyverse - interactive digital avatar coach Maiven - real-time climate policy intelligence Trismik - adaptive testing for LLMs Aniva Health - personal health concierge RedpineAI - licensed multimodal data for AI development Solace Care - end-of-life planning and support platform As 20K+ meetings kick off over the next couple days, I've found the only strategy that scales - see below. And if you’re in Helsinki, I hope you’re soaking in both the sauna and the incredible energy of 6,000 founders + 3,500 investors all in one place ❄️ #slush #startup #slush2025 #founderstage #investorday

No one knows how to move in stealth quite like our veterans 🎖️ Happy Veterans Day and Stealth Startup Tuesday! Today, we’re spotlighting a few incredible veteran-founded stealth startups - show them some love ❤️ Alex Shushunov is revolutionizing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and has already secured a patent. He’s a Ross MBA, and ex-McKinsey, Accenture, Army Aviation. Devin Harris is building an ecosystem of AI driven platforms for a better shopping experience, after climbing the ranks at the US Navy. He’s simultaneously working as a Project Manager at Nucor Corporation. Jasper Burns is a dual MBA-JD candidate at Stanford working on some wonderful B2B SaaS. He was previously at the Institute for Law & AI, McKinsey, White House, Navy Aviation. Tag anyone we’re missing - and thank you all for your service 🫡 Sourced as always with Harmonic! #stealth #startup #veteran #veteransday

Happy Friday my friends!!! Just built my first Claude Code agent 🥊😻#aimlengineer #opentowork

Which VCs are actually investing in the “unlikely” founders? The ones who didn’t study CS at Stanford/an Ivy, didn’t join the Mag7, didn’t grow up in SF or with VC connections, etc. Harmonic found em for you - happy Stealth Startup Tuesday 🩵 Sharing firms that have done deals with true new underdogs in the last month: * MiddleGame Ventures * Antler * Superhero Capital * Venture Kick * Stryber * Bessemer Venture Partners * Startup Wise Guys * 1818 Venture Capital * Pitchdrive * Angel Bridge株式会社 * Forbion * Sofinnova Partners * Monograph Capital * Startup Luxembourg * Version One Ventures * Garage Capital * ANOBAKA * CyberAgent, Inc. * Lerer Hippeau * Paradigm * Lightspeed Thinking of making this a monthly bit. In this age of AI, everyone should be empowered to be a founder, but we know it takes more than hard work and skill - at some point you need capital. If you are gearing up to raise, these firms are probably worth considering :) #vc #venturecapital #ai #founder #raising

HAPPY HALLOWEEN BOYS AND GHOULS 🎃 Truly nothing spookier than this....

A Halloween special 👻

Did we lowkey make Tuesday the best day of the week by mistake…? We've got some serious legends in this edition of Stealth Startup Tuesday, thanks to Harmonic: Lunjun Zhang - Prev. LLM & AV research @ DeepMind, Waabi (backed by Uber), Uber. Pursuing a CS PhD @ University of Toronto. Canada-based. xirui wang - Prev. Head of Commerce Risk Engineering @ CashApp, SWE @ Afterpay, Lending Club. MS @ Syracuse. California-based. Estelle Joly - Prev. CEO @ NanoCorp (backed by Elaia), Founder & COO @ CyberVadis (backed by Partech). France-based. So excited to see what they build. And if any of my stealth friends are ever feeling behind, I've attached some motivation 🙏 #startup #vc #meme #profit