Founded in 2008 and managing over $7 billion in assets, Stripes have backed some of the world's most iconic companies. Behind those bets is something most firms don't have: a proprietary data and intelligence infrastructure built to see the market before anyone else does. Stripes understood early, earlier than most, that proprietary data is a real competitive edge in venture. SONAR was built to make that edge permanent. With tens of millions of companies to track, signals to detect, founders to monitor, and a full investment team to equip, the challenge was not just technical. It was architectural.

Ekohe joined forces with Stripes to answer that challenge, and the partnership ran for over 13 years. Together, we designed and built SONAR: a platform that brought the entire global startup ecosystem into a single, reliable view. SONAR aggregated tens of millions of company records and kept that data accurate through continuous verification pipelines, eliminating the noise and blind spots that plague teams relying on third-party sources.

What Stripes needed beyond data was intelligence. We built AI models for automated extraction and classification, a conversational interface that replaced static browsing with direct, context-aware answers, and a scoring system filtered to Stripes' specific investment thesis. AI-powered meeting preparation delivered briefings built from past events and signals, so analysts walked into every conversation already ahead. 13 years. 10 million+ company records. A platform that helped a firm pick winning bets and stay ahead of the market.