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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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 28, 2016

Last year, we quietly invested in the seed round of Booster Fuels, a then-stealth on-demand gas delivery service. In fact, there are probably just a few categories where on-demand (as in “need it now”) is truly necessary – and two of those are transportation and food. That’s where Booster comes in.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 15, 2015

These are typically shortcuts to on-demand services, for example, to order food or an Uber. However, the potential for such aggregators is rather limited, since there’s not much value add and most on-demand services will likely have their own messaging bots in the near future. For example, 99designs has a Tasks Bot for Slack.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One aspect is demand-side: when the number of seed financings peaked in 2014–2015 timeframe , a new seed round stopped becoming “news,” and so it became less interesting for the press to actually report on these events. There are legitimate reasons for a startup to be in stealth mode. What’s going on?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Committing to oneself to provide top-notch results and perform at the highest standards for every client, 24/7, is a demanding profession. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents! #13- #12- Having a work-life balance. Photo Credit: Teo Vanyo. 13- Making informed decisions. Photo Credit: Jack Altmen.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

But even with that webinar’s success, we still had a lot of education to do in order to get people to understand what we did and even how we saw marketing in general, which we needed to do to generate demand and sales. Some startups are in stealth mode and maybe branding and beautiful design is important. Where do you start?

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 2, 2022

Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #20- We switched some items to a print-on-demand channel which allowed us to still expand our brand without the additional headache or cost. I wanted to boost productivity and efficiency while also reducing the time I spent looking for documents. 20- Helped members handle the pandemic.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

The biggest successes have been galvanized around consumer-facing products like [the Pebble smartwatch] or the [Double Fine] Adventure game… something there’s tremendous demand for. SS: You have to be strategic because there’s no stealth mode.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Dr Jean-Paul Rodrigue , in the Department of Global Studies & Geography at Hofstra University, observed that bubbles have four phases; stealth, awareness, mania and blow-off. In the stealth phase , prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists (VCs) start investing in an industry or market segment that others have not yet found.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

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. The price of gold is at a steady upward slope because of its high demand and low supply. Here are the reasons to day trade in gold : Expect high market prices.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

Are You Willing To Pay For The Change You’re Demanding? Sequoia Confirms Existence of “Stealth” Scout Program. When Selling is the Worst Way to Win Customers – [link]. Andreessen Horowitz Confirms Its Scout Program, Calls Out Lazy Angels Who Hate Competition – [link]. – [link]. Who’s Next? – [link].

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

New applications are being created and deployed at an explosive rate and an army of mobile users are demanding the same application performance as desktop users. Avi Networks officially came out of stealth today, armed with several Fortune 1000 customers in pilots and production.

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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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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. SaaS 3.0 ?—?many

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SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The book shares quite a few good techniques for validating the market/demand, validating the solution, and validating the growth engine. A head start is rarely large enough to matter, and time spent in stealth mode-away from customers-is unlikely to provide a head start. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.”

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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. We’re preparing to make our third investment with a hardware component here at NextView.

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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. We’re preparing to make our third investment with a hardware component here at NextView.

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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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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

PurePlus is disrupting candy with stealth nutrition. The end goal is to create massive demand for fruits and vegetables that restores soil, climate, and health-accelerating systems. PurePlus has created a healthy candy wafer called FAVES that is made from the most climate impactful, imperfect and nutrient dense fruits and vegetables.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 22, 2012

I could argue that two of us were new to some of what our roles demanded, but the bottom line is that it took way too freaking long for us to launch and it was mostly my fault. Get to your MVP in under 6 months, not 18.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Socialware is emerging from stealth mode, and being increasingly public about its products and services. “Socialware is leveraging a ground swell in both consumer demand for public social sites and market validation from the enterprise that these tools work,&# said Mike Maples, Jr., managing partner at Maples Investments.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

We used these tools to keep pace with the Soviet threats and eventually used silicon, semiconductors and stealth to create an offset strategy to leapfrog their military. The problem is they don’t know how to be innovative in peacetime when innovation succumbs to the daily demands of execution. That approach doesn’t work anymore.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

While operating a tutoring business I was able to identify a demand for niche business software. Thanks to Teo Vanyo, Stealth Agents ! #18- The shortage of PPE that’s safe and chic for women in demanding industries motivated our business to develop safe and versatile workwear. From 9 pm to 1 am I banged away on a keyboard.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Many founders concentrate on perfecting their product, adding revolutionary features, and staying in stealth mode to avoid the competition. My advice is to talk to the market and to potential customers as early as possible and think about your company’s brand from day one.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

All of these early-stage companies, you’re taking a risk on a bet; a bet of a future market, a bet on what demand will look like, a bet on how this will evolve. Existing businesses have a bunch of customers who demand certain things, demand an SLA, don’t want to take certain risks as a way of doing it.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

All of these early-stage companies, you’re taking a risk on a bet; a bet of a future market, a bet on what demand will look like, a bet on how this will evolve. Existing businesses have a bunch of customers who demand certain things, demand an SLA, don’t want to take certain risks as a way of doing it.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Excitingly, if successful, SnapTrip will grow the market by matching demand for late availability deals with discounted supply. Now that he is out of stealth mode with a live site we are helping him find a co-founder and build his team out.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). We wanted a conference room with a standing conference table (~$950 on up) and anti-fatigue mats , but so far we haven’t had the audience demand. Motion is better than no motion; stasis kills.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Greater efficiencies are really needed in this sector to deal with a growing demand and a wider consumption base. They have been in stealth mode for 2 years now working mainly with network infrastructures and content providers. They are going to remain in semi-stealth mode and are testing their products in the US, Asia, and Europe.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly. We made two new investments in this space which are still in stealth. In just a couple of months the current version includes 68 startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

oh, and on the book front, you'll be able to get all of my essays so far in ebook, print-on-demand, and kindle editions - coming soon. I feel like I would have to introduce this by stealth. I recently met with a two-person-no-funding team that, after some hesitating, jumped in and tried it. They seem to be liking it. (oh,

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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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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The downside is that, unlike past DoD technology development – where the DoD leads it, can control it, and has the most advanced technology (like stealth and electronic warfare), in most cases the DoD will not have the most advanced algorithms or models. The analogy for AI is closer to microelectronics than it is EW.

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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? It also helps validate the demand for your product. Guarding The "Big Idea". I was totally guilty of this back in the day. Others can help provide feedback on your differentiation or competition.

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