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Signals by Signal - Week 5

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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.

Dr. Andre Sommer
Berlin, Germany· Stealth since Jan 2024

Background: Cara Care, Studiblog, Baylor College of Medicine, Center for Economics and Neuroscience

Education: University of Bonn, Baylor College of Medicine

Isaac Ng
London, United Kingdom· Stealth since Jan 2025

Background: American Express, Amazon, Nachas Networks

Education: Imperial College

Daniel van der Woude
Amsterdam, Netherlands· Stealth since Jan 2025

Experience: Nuklai, AllianceBlock, Rabobank

Education: Politecnico di Milano, NEOMA Business School

Newly launched startups

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

theatron
London, United Kingdom
Founded by: Asif Agha, Hamish Hunt

Description: AI-powered robotic fabrication, transforming architectural elements and sculptures through automated material processing

Luma
Copenhagen, Denmark
Founded by: Kristian Anker, Oscar Almstrup

Description: Luma helps businesses and individuals manage contracts, ensure compliance, and navigate legal matters efficiently

Website: heyluma.com

Energy Node
Göteborg, Sweden
Founded by: Luis Aguilera

Description: Developing innovative battery systems to create solutions that are efficient, safe and 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: London, United Kingdom

What they do: Lupa redefines veterinary care with the world’s first true Veterinary Operating System, an all-in-one. fully integrated platform tailored for pet service providers

Last funding date: Dec. 1, 2023

Latest funding amount: $1M

Signal: Lupa has experienced notable growth with its team expanding to 20 employees, making 33% increase over 35 days. The company also made a significant key hire, has Founding Engineer. Also, Lupa’s LinkedIn following grew by 21% to 774 followers

Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing

Location: Redmond, United States

What they do: Building a network of megawatt-scale data centers in space, scalable to gigawatt capacity

Last funding date: $11M

Latest funding amount: Dec. 1, 2023

Signal: Lumen Orbit has made a significant key hire with Bailey Montano as Lead Mechanical Engineer. The company's LinkedIn followers have increased by 28% in the last 30 days, reaching 5.1k. Additionally, Lumen Orbit has been mentioned in the news on geekwire.com, indicating growing public interest

Industry: Software Development

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

What they do: Apify is a full-stack web scraping and browser automation platform that extract data from websites and automate workflows

Last funding date: N/A

Last funding amount: $3M

Signal: Apify has made significant strides with key hires including Dušan Vystrčil as AI Product Manager and Josef Procházka as Python Developer. Additionally, the company has seen a 9% increase in GitHub contributors, reaching 203, and a 7% rise in commits, totaling 7.6k over the past 30 days

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