Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2014

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. And my sense is the trend carries outside of our portfolio these days. Most of the startups we’ve backed at Homebrew don’t rush to announce their funding.

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K9 Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

“ US Navy Sea Shadow stealth craft ” by US Navy employee – [link]. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Stealth is overrated. Today, I have seen it enough times from companies in my portfolio and others that are not in my portfolio that have utilized the “We’re in stealth mode” line.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. 6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

The issue is that existing products focus on endpoints and on-premise datastores. Many of these products rely on an agent-centric architecture which must be installed on each endpoint in order to monitor data. Sub-categories include DLP (e.g.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. 2021 Recap. Sending and from the boldstart team at the end of a challenging 2021. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m. Ernest Addison , Associate and formerly at Audax group.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Last week, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Ten Little , came out of stealth and announced its public launch. . To round out the founding team, Julie brings an extremely complementary experience in operations from Jet.com and eos products. We were excited to be the first to say yes and lead the $2.6M

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Version One Ventures

JULY 1, 2020

And while these past three months have been far from typical, there was a lot of activity across our portfolio. Cape Privacy emerged from stealth and announced a $5 million seed round , which we co-led with Boldstart Ventures. Product Launches, Accolades and Other News. At the end of every quarter, we publish a quick recap.

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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. by tying it to a strategic event: a product launch, and partnership announcement, or some other key milestone which the industry landscape should care about.

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View from Seed

JULY 11, 2019

On Tuesday, one of our most recent portfolio companies, Otis, came out of stealth and announced its public launch. We were always impressed with his vision and product talent, but the timing of his raise and our own fund didn’t quite line up.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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View from Seed

MARCH 29, 2018

The first is around health care products and services that augment physicians’ standard of care by using modern software, analytics, and sensors. Patients experience these products or services directly, or they are tools used daily by health care practitioners to enable better patient care for large portions of the population.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

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.” October 13, 2005 |.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Our years of product management experience taught us that often the best insights can come from your customers. You might have detailed these ideas lovingly in a blog post or elsewhere on your site but almost all the time, your portfolio page helps teams decide if they should reach out to your or not. .

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SVPG

OCTOBER 13, 2011

A while ago I posted an article on people that I think have something really valuable to say to product leaders. I also promised that I’d share a glossary to map the nomenclature and concepts he uses with the terminology I use in my writing and my work with product teams. Minimum Viable Product (MVP) = MVP Test.

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View from Seed

JUNE 11, 2015

Startups and their founders who claim to be in “stealth mode” prior to launch are such a commonplace part of the startup ecosystem that it might seem odd to question its merits. But it’s important to address this head on and ask: What are the benefits of stealth mode for startups, really? . Create an Air of Mystique.

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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.

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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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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

BOLDstart helps founders at the seed stage accelerate their growth from idea/ alpha phase to product market fit and successful Series A round. However, to add to this, we love entrepreneurs who have big visions but of course, start with an incredibly focused product. The other big theme is one of big data.

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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. a product launch, hiring a key executive, a rebrand, an expansion of market focus, etc.).

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

I’ve attached below my original, much more detailed blog post about the details of how we’ve designed our office to help people stay healthy and be as productive as possible. We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

How about when you missed your revenue targets, when your product didn’t ship on time, when your co-founder quit, when you ran out of cash and didn’t have strong options, when Facebook announces that they’re going to compete with you or when Steve Jobs says that your company pisses him off ? When the world was ending?

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Incubators aren’t non-profits, therefore in addition to asking for a low pre-money valuation, they may structure their investment in a way that helps to ensure a higher return across their portfolio. If so, check out the lay of the land to determine if your startup can be productive in the office space. Do they know your space?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

2023 Unity Gaming Report Generative AI is faster than most consumer products and attracting a high level of VC investment, even in today’s tough funding environment. Companies operating in the space (not in stealth), include Latitude , Ludo (2D games) and Israeli startup Sefi AI. steampunk airships flying in the sky.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Rather than a product demo – we believe in a “Learning Demo”. We think we can do better. Those days are over. Lessons Learned.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

just months after it came out of stealth. Building a ubiquitous platform that enables B2B payments at the right time and place, integrating with other suppliers’ offerings, improves the customer experience, extends Melio’s reach and fuels the rise of adoption within vertical SaaS products.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

Then, TechCrunch was acquired by AOL (now “Oath,” or whatever – I can’t remember), and the product wasn’t able to keep up with the times and explosion of companies. 5/ Copycat Culture And Stealth Mode Back En Vogue: I’ve alluded to this above and below, but now when a category gets hot, founders and capital flood it.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

I might be biased as a user, but it’s a great product and service. Disclosure: a Remagine Ventures portfolio company. Lighttricks – the suite of mobile apps for photo and video editing, and most recently generative AI photo and video generation. Passed the $100M revenue mark in 2022. Funding undisclosed.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 27, 2012

Today one of our portfolio companies, LinkSmart , has come out of stealth mode and unveiled its product, Total Link Management and $4.7M in financing led by Foundry Group. My partner Seth Levine sits on the board and wrote about his view of LinkSmart.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

* Originally published on Calcalist , April 20 2023 Since the day ChatGPT was introduced in November 2022, it has become the fastest growing consumer product, putting the words ‘generative AI’ in the mainstream. Every day, we hear about new products and services that are meant to enhance human creativity and productivity.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. Marc Andreessen: Yeah.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Or you have a product in a patent but no [inaudible 00:04:36] bring you to market. After that company failed, I went on and interviewed a bunch of investors that I had met and also some other CEO’s who had failed companies prior to their successes now and asked them, “Why did these companies fail in your portfolio?”

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This post is part of Accel’s Secrets to Scaling series, where leaders from across our portfolio share their learnings and advice with the next generation of European and Israeli entrepreneurs building global winners. Digitization really accelerated with products like PayPal, Venmo, Square Cash and Revolut.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Most people want to visit your site, do some research, go away, visit other sites, come back to yours, get more confidence about your brand, go back to Google and compare reviews/prices, come back to your site and add the product/service to the cart, go and ask their spouse/boss for permission, come back and buy from you (or the other site).

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Perhaps the team is working on a product that really isnt that great or useful. Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Building a product is like packing a suitcase: Plan out what you think you need. The biggest mistake I see is companies waiting too long to release the product. Leave it in the comments.

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