Laura Melahn
Founder of Stealth
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
We’re putting the power of AI to work for parents, focused on supporting families and growing human connection.
Founder & Managing Partner
2024
Investor and advisor supporting consumer technology companies, focusing on AI innovation and health.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
Signos pairs glucose data with an AI-enhanced app to bring visibility into metabolic function and guidance to drive health and weight loss.
Raised $37,000,000.00 from Samsung NEXT, Dexcom Ventures, Cheyenne Ventures, Julian Aiken, Romello Crowell and Google Ventures.
Board Member
2020 - 2024
Mill offers a kitchen bin that dries, shrinks, and de-stinks leftover food, eliminating food waste.
Raised $70,378,750.00 from Gigascale Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Springdale Ventures, Bradley Horowitz, Energy Impact Partners, Prelude Ventures, MarketX Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Buckhill Capital LP and Google Ventures.
Board Observer
2019 - 2024
Lovevery is an early learning platform that offers a stage-based system of information for parents and products for children.
Raised $125,967,047.00 from Mark Vadon, TCG, Reach Capital, SoGal Ventures, Steph Korey Goodwin, Google Ventures and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Board Member
2018 - 2024
Labor marketplace for education. Swing connects local educators to substitute teaching opportunities at schools and districts across the U.S.
Swing Education provides substitute teachers to fill hard- to-fill staff absences.
Raised $60,840,000.00 from Apax Partners and Reach Capital.
Investor
2018 - 2024
Partner
2011 - 2024
I was a Partner at Google Ventures for 12 years. I led investments in consumer technology companies and built the firm’s marketing function. I helped the team grow from a $50M fund to a >$3B fund. My investments at GV included: Mill (Series A, Board Director), Signos (Series A, Board Director), Lovevery (Series B, Board Observer), Happiest Baby (Series B), Outdoor Voices (Series C, Board Observer), and Swing Education (Series B, Board Director). I did early brand work with Zipline, Robinhood, One Medical, Impossible Foods, Element Science, Grail, and Calico.
Google Ventures is an investment arm of Alphabet that provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies.
President
2019 - 2022
Board Observer
2018 - 2020
Outdoor Voices is an active lifestyle brand that makes technical apparel for recreation.
Raised $64,424,999.00 from NaHCO3.