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Signals by Signal - Week 44

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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.

Philipp Burda
London, United Kingdom· Stealth since Oct 2024

Background: Revolut (Head of Data Science & Lifecycle - Retail), Postdoctoral Fellow

Education: Durham University (PhD)

Dr. Patrick Gassmann
Munich, Germany· Stealth since Oct 2024

Background: McKinsey & Company, Google, Roland Berger

Education: TU Dortmund University (PhD), University of St. Gallen (MSc)

Guillaume D.
Paris, France· Stealth since Oct 2024

Experience: FrenchCPO, Renaissance Interactive, Jellysmack

Education: Columbia University (MSc), Université Paris Dauphine (MSc)

Newly launched startups

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

Swift AI
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded by: Niek Hogenboom, Titus Ex

Description: Exceptional customer support at scale without increasing headcount. Swift AI generates draft responses for your employees to check and send

Website: getswift.ai

4thBrain
Stockholm, Sweden
Founded by: Somil Gupta, Ali Sarrafi

Description: 4thBrain develops the next-generation of enterprise service and operations platform that supports Agile, Responsive, Resilient, and Federated business and operating models

Website: 4thbrain

Flow Legal
London, United Kingdom
Founded by: Guy Stern

Description: Flow Legal streamlines contracting and compliance processes for SaaS, fintech, and marketplace companies. Our AI-powered platform ensures efficient, high-quality legal contracts and data governance

Website: flow.legal

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: Technology, Information and Internet

Location: Oulu, Finland

What they do: The Warming Surfaces Company, a spin-out from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, pioneers the digitalization of heating for the sustainability era. Patented, ultra-fast, thin, pixelated heaters are seamlessly integrated into touchable surfaces within living environments. These rapid-response digital warming surfaces enable nearly real-time control of indoor warmth, matching the ease and immediacy of lighting adjustments

Last Funding date: N/A

Latest Funding: N/A

Signal: The Warming Surfaces Company obtained a new patent and announced a new product

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet

Location: Clayton, United States

What they do: Unkey is an open source API management platform that helps developers secure, manage, and scale their APIs. Unkey has built-in features that can make it easier than ever to provide an API to end users

Last Funding date: November 15, 2023

Latest Funding: $1.6M

Signal: Unkey is experiencing consistent growth across several important performance metrics, with a 42% increase in GitHub growth and additional growth on X

Industry: Software Development

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

What they do: The BI tool for modern companies. Metrics-first BI that's built for all users

Last Funding date: July 3, 2024

Last Funding: $4.3M

Signal: Steep is showing growth across three key areas: an increase in employees, a rise in traffic, and active hiring intent

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