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Signals by Signal - Week 31

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Simon Bottkjaer
August 01, 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.

Jennifer Prendki
San Francisco, United States· Stealth since July 2025

Background: Google DeepMind, Atlassian, Alectio

Education: Sorbonne Université, Université-Paris Sud

David Budden
London, United Kingdom · Stealth since July 2025

Experience: Google DeepMind, MIT, Harvard

Education: University of Melbourne, University of Newcastle

Joel Berhane
Stockholm, Sweden· Stealth since July 2025

Background: King, Anyfin

Education: Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm Universitet

Newly launched startups

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

Airbolt
San Francisco, United States
Founded by: Mark Watson

Description: Airbolt is an open-source proxy that handles all the boring backend work, letting you call LLM APIs directly from your frontend code.

Cardi
London, United Kingdom
Founded by: Fergal Burnett Small

Description: A career discovery platform for students and young professionals interested in tech.

Website: joincardi.com

dairii
Tokyo, Japan
Founded by: Yuichi Sakano

Description: AI Native Insurtech Startup

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: Entertainment

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

What they do: Podimo is a platform for both podcast and audiobook lovers, as well as audio content creators.

Last funding date: Dec. 21, 2023

Latest funding amount: $50M

Team: Morten Strunge, Andreas Sachse, Nikolaj Koppel

Signal: Podimo has made significant strides with key hires including Etasha Adlakha as Regional Customer Experience & Operations Coordinator for Germany & Netherlands, Magdalena Bigos as Senior Product Analyst, and Rok S. as Global Head of Tax, Treasury & Finance. Additionally, the company was mentioned in emerce.nl, highlighting its growing presence in the industry.

Industry: Artificial Intelligence

Location: Paris, France

What they do: FlexAI delivers Workload as a Service (WaaS), ensuring AI workloads run optimally - anytime, anywhere.

Last funding date: Apr. 23, 2024

Last funding amount: $30M

Team: Dali Kilani, Brijesh Tripathi

Signal: FlexAI has strengthened its team with key hires, including Olivier Caudron as Director of Engineering, Simon Caplette as Engineer, and Marc Trey as Senior Release Engineer.

Industry: Software Development

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

What they do: kapa.ai makes it easy for developer-facing companies to build AI support and onboarding bots for their users.

Last funding date: Oct. 3, 2024

Last funding amount: $3.2M

Team: Emil Sorensen, Finn Bauer

Signal: Kapa.ai has made significant strides with key hires including Frederik Dieleman as a Research Engineer and Aaron Kirkbride as a Software Engineer. The company is actively hiring for two additional areas and has expanded its customer base by acquiring new clients, including Nutrient, Buckaroo and more.

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