led the seed round, 2024.joined as employee four.introduced the founder to the fund.co-founded, exited, backed the next one.backed the founder twice before.co-invested across three rounds, 2023 to 2025.
StartupMap is a living digital twin of the US startup ecosystem:
Founders and companies. Investors and venture funds. GPs, LPs, angels, scouts, operators, advisors, board members, partners, accelerators, universities, labs, and public programs, and the relationships among them.
Who funded whom. Who hired whom. Who keeps showing up together. Dated, named, sourced.
Seeing everything does not mean disclosing everything.
Every early-stage company developing critical technologies for the Department of War and the U.S. Intelligence Community will choose to build in stealth.
StealthMap.
Stealth is about controlled disclosure, not about being hidden.
StealthMap is a trust layer for discovery: to find partners, key hires, investors, and advisors while building in stealth.
A patent takes 29 months. AI products ship weekly.
So founders default to trade secret, and go dark.
USPTO total patent pendency 29.3 mo · June 2026
StealthMap exists so going dark never means going alone.
Visible to allies. Dark to adversaries.
$14.6B
into defense and national-security startups in the first five months of 2026, past 2025’s full-year record of $9.6B.
The capital is on the record. The relationships are not.
Crunchbase News · June 2026
Why it matters
America’s next advantage is already being built.
American founders now compound faster than the record of them. A company can go from repo to revenue between two board meetings, and the picture most investors carry is a quarter old. The next advantage is not more capital; it is a truer picture, sooner.
U.S. venture deal valueBillions · 2023–2025
2023$167.3B
2024$212.6B
2025$320B
15,352
U.S. venture deals in 2025
Deal value +51%; deal count up less than 1% year over year
The chips, the datacenters, and the grid are tracked as national assets, with named programs and named budgets. The people building on top of them are tracked by press release. The live record of who funds whom, who hires whom, and who keeps showing up is not research material; it is operating infrastructure.
The blind spot
342:1
5.2M new U.S. business applications in 2024. 15,260 U.S. venture deals. Over 99% of the formation base is invisible.
Census BFS · PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor · 2024
How we build matters: values are a window to intent.
Luminint Labs is small, mission-driven, and building in the national security space.
We’re looking for exceptional engineers who already work at the frontier: orchestrating agents, shipping to production in days, and choosing work with national consequence. If that sounds like you, let’s talk.
