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Signals by Signal - Week 14

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Hervé Meyer-Olbersleben
April 06, 2025

Welcome to Signals by Signal!

Get a sneak peek of what our platform can do with this data-driven newsletter, crafted to help investors discover stealth founders, emerging startups, and growing companies. Enjoy this week’s edition — we’re excited to have you with us!

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Stealth Detector

Signal detects thousands of new stealth founders every month. Here’s a glimpse of some of the individuals operating under the radar, along with their backgrounds and expertise.

Marsel Nikaj
London, United Kingdom· Stealth since Mar 2025

Background: Trade Republic, Revolut, TreasureHouse, Emerge

Education: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Lu Wang
France· Stealth since Mar 2025

Experience: Upsail AI, La Javaness, VRTUOZ, Capgemini

Education: HEC Paris, LSE, Zhejiang University

Leonard Wossnig
London, United Kingdom· Stealth since Mar 2024

Background: 2048 Ventures, LabGenius, Odyssey Therapeutics, Rahko

Education: UCL, University of Oxford, ETH Zürich, University of Augsburg

Newly launched startups

Signal uncovers newly launched startups ready to disrupt their industries. This section highlights some of the recent startups we spotted.

Description: Streamlining auditor-client interaction and increasing the auditor value-delivery 

Website: captier.io

Description: ChainReactor combines the power of 3D printing technology and machine learning to revolutionize the biotech industry

Voon
Tallinn, Estonia
Founded by: Eliise Lehtsaar, Madis Vodja

Description: Voon creates biodegradable air filters from waste wool, making construction more sustainable

Website: N/A

Growing companies

Signal monitors fast-growing companies in real-time, offering updates on key performance metrics, funding, team growth and much more. Here are some of the growing companies we recently spotted.

Industry: Software Development

Location: Paris, France

What they do: Save time and replace CV screenings with Maki skills tests, a bias-free tools that help assess candidates

Last funding date: Jan. 15, 2025

Latest funding amount: $28.6M

Signal: Maki People has expanded its workforce to 76 employees, marking a 13% increase over the past 15 days. Additionally, the company has made a key hire, Amaury Portier, as a Full Stack Developer

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet

Location: London, United Kingdom

What they do: Cloud-based approaches deliver high performing AI in software industries, but this data science approaches were not designed for the dynamic, real-world, unstructured data sets of the energy industry

Last funding date: Jun. 01, 2024

Last funding amount: $5.0M

Signal: Kashmir Intelligence has expanded its workforce to 24 employees, marking a 33% increase over the past 50 days. Additionally, the company has made a significant key hire, bringing on Harry Davies as an Artificial Intelligence Researcher

Industry: Financial Services

Location: Helsinki, Finland

What they do: FinanceKey is an API, data and payment orchestration layer for digital finance, providing real-time financial visibility, seamless connectivity via One Finance API and end-to-end payment automation

Last funding date: Mar. 12, 2022

Last funding amount: N/A

Signal: FinanceKey has strengthened its team with key hires, including Adam Sowiński as a Senior Full Stack Developer and Anand S as a Senior Software Engineer, indicating a strategic focus on enhancing its technical capabilities

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