💰 New: Featured Founders Fundraising

We’re launching a new section highlighting founders actively raising capital.

Every week I get flooded with messages from founders we’ve featured (and plenty we haven’t yet) wanting to share what they’re building, how fast they’re growing, what their revenue looks like, and who they’re raising from.

Some of those conversations are too interesting to keep behind closed doors.

With the founders’ permission, we’ll occasionally feature startups that are actively fundraising and give you a peek behind the curtain on what they’re building, where they’re at, and what their raise looks like.

Think of it as a curated founder-to-investor matchmaking section built right into the newsletter.

Back to the good stuff…

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• MIT and Stanford-trained founder behind Topolabs (acquired by Autodesk) is building semi-autonomous robotics for wildfire prevention and precision forestry

• Serial founder with exits to Intel, Check Point, and Proofpoint enters stealth

• Former SVP at Cambr (acq. by NYSE: NBHC) is building an AI-powered treasury platform for local governments

• Former Chief Strategy Officer at Boston Dynamics launches stealth robotics startup

• Harvard MBA and former Uber Freight GM is building an AI-native logistics OS for healthcare and life sciences

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

💰 Featured Founders Fundraising

Discover startups currently fundraising before they hit everyone’s radar.

Steven Shepard - Co-Founder & CEO at Vaxon Space

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Program Manager for Power and Propulsion, Lunar Fission Surface Power and Directed Energy at Lockheed Martin; ongoing Industry Advisor to NASA, US Space Force, and the Pentagon

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Vaxon Space is developing satellite constellations in VLEO focused on missile defense and space-based interceptors, as well as AI / data center connectivity and enhanced ISR. They are a dual-use company supporting the DoW and commercial customers.

HQ: San Jose, California, United States

Traction and Highlights: Vaxon is currently fundraising through June 15 and filed provisional patents on inlet and pumping system with testing beginning in June. Anticipating approximately $3M in government funding wins across DARPA, NASA, AFRL and USSF.

🕵️‍♂️ Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Olivier Causse - Co-Founder & CEO at ZoomLogi

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#199

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Multiple GM Roles at Uber Freight, MBA at Harvard Business School, MS at UC Berkeley, Investment Manager at Verdane, Investment Manager at Equinor Ventures, Advisor at Porterbuddy

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

ZoomLogi is an AI-native logistics operating system for healthcare and life sciences, unifying carrier data, sensor feeds, and workflows to predict and automate exception resolution for pharmaceutical manufacturers, specialty pharmacies, biotechs, and logistics service providers.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: HealthTech, Logistics AI, Supply Chain SaaS | Team Size: 7

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 7 Months

Mcneil A. - Co-Founder at Nolro

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Master of Public Policy at University of Chicago, Management Intern at Amazon, Associate Consultant at Altair Advisers, Commercial Strategy Intern at Gilead Sciences, Congressional Intern at U.S. House of Representatives

Connect on: LinkedIn

Nolro is an AI control plane that enables enterprises to approve releases, enforce guardrails, monitor drift and hallucinations, and generate audit-ready compliance evidence across AI systems, vendors, and workflows.

HQ: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Industry: AI Governance, Enterprise SaaS, Compliance Tech

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months

Jagadish Nomula - Founder at Metaworkers AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Engineering Manager at Amazon, Tech Fellow at Microsoft, Stanford University GSB (Corporate Innovation & Leadership), Founder & CEO at Voicy.AI, Founder at Jobsmunk

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Metaworkers.ai is building an enterprise agentic AI platform exploring LLMs, multimodal models, reasoning, and AI coworkers.

HQ: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months

James Page - CEO at Forest3 AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founder & CEO at Topolabs (Acquired by Autodesk), VP Software & AI at Stratasys, Founder & CTO at Riven, Senior Engineer at Intuitive Surgical, MIT and Stanford alum

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Forest3 AI deploys small, semi-autonomous equipment for forest management, targeting fire prevention and precision harvesting.

HQ: Oakland, California, United States

Industry: Robotics, AgriTech, Climate Tech | Team Size: 5

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 Months

Peter Rogers - Co-Founder & CEO at Edwin

FounderDNA: Top 10 University

Prior Experience: SVP, Head of Product and Operations at Cambr (acquired by National Bank Holdings Corporation, NYSE: NBHC), Strategic Initiatives and Operations at Keystone Industries

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Edwin is the AI-powered treasury and financial platform built for local governments.

HQ: Santa Monica, California, United States

Industry: GovTech, FinTech, B2B SaaS | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months

🕵️‍♂️ Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Neeraj Pradhan - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founding AI Engineer at LlamaIndex, Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, Research Engineer at Uber, Tech Lead AI Applications at Tribe AI

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Redwood City, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Etay Bogner - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: VP and GM Zero Trust Products at Proofpoint, Founder & CEO at Meta Networks (Acquired by Proofpoint), Founder & CTO at Neocleus (Acquired by Intel), Founder & CTO at Stratoscale, Founder & Managing Director at SofaWare (Acquired by Check Point)

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Israel

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Shilpa Dhar - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Chief Product Officer at Self Financial, SVP/GM Commerce at HubSpot, Vice President of Product at Coinbase, Head of Product at Venmo, Staff Software Engineer at PayPal

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Jose, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Marc Theermann - Founder & CEO at Stealth Robotics Company

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Chief Strategy Officer at Boston Dynamics, Director Global Partnerships at Google, EVP Strategy at Millennial Media (Sold to AOL/Verizon), Head of Mobile Platform Sales at Google

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months

Erik Reppel - Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Head of Engineering - CDP at Coinbase, Head of Engineering at ZORA, Staff ML Platform Engineer at Clubhouse, Member of Technical Steering Committee at x402 Foundation

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

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Stay Stealthy,

Drake

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Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Apple Siri and Roblox Foundation AI ML scientist enters stealth

• Former Ogilvy partner and serial PE operator is building the AI infrastructure platform that runs the full deal lifecycle for private equity firms

• Ex-Snap Bitmoji design head and Meta/Netflix veteran enters stealth

• Google DeepMind UX research lead for Bard & Gemini enters stealth

• Former Lyft Director of Hardware Engineering exits stealth with $12M seed to let engineers test real hardware changes in seconds instead of weeks

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Rodrigo Capdevielle - Co-CEO & Founder at Arkimedes

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: CEO & Co-Founder at Hikko, Director & Partner at Ogilvy, CEO & Co-Founder at Alan (acquired by Delivery Hero)

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Co-Founcer & Co-CEO: Maximiliano Casal (Co-Founder at Nowports - YC W19 unicorn)

Arkimedes is an AI infrastructure platform for private equity firms, offering five integrated modules covering the full deal lifecycle built for large-cap PE, mid-market PE, and corporate development teams.

HQ: New York, United States

Industry: FinTech, Private Equity, Enterprise AI | Team Size: 8

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 4 Months

Antoine A. Ruzette - Co-Founder at Timper

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University, Masters Degree, Doctorate Degree

Prior Experience: Data Scientist at McKinsey & Company, Computational Biologist at Harvard Medical School, Co-Founder & CEO at Expand Consulting, Co-Founder, ML at Maka Media

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Timper runs feasibility studies to assess whether a project will receive permits before capital is committed.

HQ: Belgium

Industry: PropTech, Construction Tech, B2B SaaS | Team Size: 4

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months

Shay Shwartz - Co-Founder & CEO at Ocean

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Security Team Lead at Axis Security, Cyber Security Researcher at Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Security Research & Development at Israel Defense Forces

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Ocean is an agentic email security platform that uses purpose-built AI agents to detect malicious intent in targeted and novel email attacks, replacing legacy pattern-based detection with context-aware analysis at enterprise scale.

HQ: New York, United States

Industry: Cybersecurity, Email Security, AI | Team Size: 2

Latest Funding: $28M Series A Round on 5/19/2026

Key Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital and Cerca Partners

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Years

AJ Cooper - Co-Founder & CEO at Itera

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Doctorate Degree

Prior Experience: Director of Hardware Engineering at Lyft, Head of Electrical Engineering (Jump) at Uber, Director of Engineering at Flex, Co-Founder/Director of Hardware Engineering at Olio Devices

Connect on: LinkedIn

Itera is the only company enabling engineers to test real hardware changes in seconds instead of weeks through breakthrough fluid circuit technology.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Hard Tech, Engineering Tools | Team Size: 10

Latest Funding: $12M Seed Round on 5/27/2026

Key Investors: Upfront Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Colle Capital

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 years 5 months

Haris Javed-Akhtar - Founder & CEO at Panacea

Prior Experience: Partnerships Lead at Anterior, Imperial College London (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery)

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Panacea pairs experienced ex-FDA regulatory consultants with an AI platform to deliver the fastest and lowest-cost pathway to FDA approval, offering fixed outcome-based pricing across all major regulatory pathways.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: HealthTech, Regulatory Technology, Biotechnology | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Mahesh Nandwana - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Technical Lead/ML Scientist (Siri Perception) at Apple, Senior Principal ML Scientist (Foundation AI) at Roblox, Advanced Computer Scientist (Speech Technology and Research Lab )at SRI International

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Cam Langs - Founder at Stealth AI Startup

Building privacy-first productivity tools for people who work across many browser-based apps.

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Head of Bitmoji Design at Snap Inc., Art Manager, Avatars at Meta, Engineering Manager at Netflix

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Kent Gillenwater - Co-Founder / CTO at Stealth Startup

Building a new product at the intersection of SaaS, AI, growth, and monetization.

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Director of Engineering - Product Led Growth at DocuSign, Head of Engineering at Atlassian, Lead Engineer/Architect at Taleris

Connect on: LinkedIn

Co-Founder and CEO: Mark Miller (General Manager and Head of Product - Business Prime at Amazon)

HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Kyle Morgan - Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Lead UXR (Bard & Gemini) at Google DeepMind, Lead UXR, Applied AI / Enterprise AI Agents at Google, Head of Digital Experience at Vocus Group Limited, UX Design Research Manager at AGL Energy

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Vera Chichagova - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Director Regulatory Compliance at OKX, Group Head of Regulatory Compliance at Revolut, Vice President Compliance at Barclays Investment Bank

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Google DeepMind and Amazon NLP research scientist enters stealth

• Former Apple Camera Design Lead is building an AI-driven robotic orchestration platform for manufacturing

• ML systems leader across Cruise and Twitter enters stealth

• Harvard PhD is building AI-powered biosecurity screening infrastructure for the bioeconomy

• MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab scientist and TikTok AI security founding member enters stealth

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Dianzhuo Wang - Co-Founder at TwentyTwo

FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: PhD in Applied Physics & MS in Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, Research Collaborator at SecureBio

Connect on: LinkedIn

TwentyTwo is building AI-powered biosecurity screening infrastructure for the bioeconomy, helping organizations comply with emerging dual-use regulations under the EU Biotech Act and US executive orders.

HQ: Greater Boston, United States

Industry: Biosecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months

Kaouther Ben Ouirane - Co-Founder & CTO at Repliqease

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CTO at Wellmetry, Lead Data Scientist at Deloitte, Bioinformatics Scientist at CEA, ML Research Scientist at WITSEE

Connect on: LinkedIn

Repliqease is building AI that transforms how professionals interact with and work through video content.

HQ: Paris, France

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Video Technology

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 1 Month

John Chirikjian - Founder at Starpilot

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CTO at Backlot (YC S20), Co-Founder & CTO at Ayez (YC W18), Founder at Nodogoro, Technical PM at Microsoft, Researcher at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Starpilot is building an operating system for the physical world, combining low-latency teleoperation with advanced data capture to enable robots to perform human tasks with deterministic reliability.

HQ: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Industry: Robotics, Automation, AI | Team Size: 6

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

Raja Tadimeti - Co-Founder & CEO at REAP

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks, Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at WiteSand (acquired by Juniper), Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems, MTS at Pensando Systems

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

REAP is an AI-native network intelligence platform that converts raw network signals into actionable answers, built by engineers with deep experience designing enterprise networking infrastructure.

HQ: San Jose, California, United States

Industry: Network Intelligence, AI, Cybersecurity | Team Size: 4

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year

Arash Tajik - Founder & CEO at Axomind

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Camera Module Design Lead at Apple, Product Development Lead at Inscopix, Head of Product at Xip, PFC Fellow at Pear VC, PhD at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Connect on: LinkedIn

Axomind is building an AI-driven robotic orchestration platform for the manufacturing industry.

HQ: United States

Industry: Robotics, Industrial Automation, Artificial Intelligence

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Herbert Huang - Founder of AI Security Lab at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: AI Agent/LLM Security (AI Lab Founding Member) at TikTok, Scientist at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Founder & CTO at TensorSecurity

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Arthur Brazinskas - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Sr. Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, Research Scientist at Google, Applied Scientist (NLP) at Amazon

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: London Area, United Kingdom

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Selene Z. - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Block, Sr. Applied Scientist at Amazon, Co-Founder & CPO at LumeDeer (Acquired), Founder at Co-Paws (Sold)

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Taci Pereira - Founder & CEO at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: CEO at Systemic Bio (subsidiary of 3D Systems), VP & GM Bioprinting at 3D Systems Corporation

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

Wolfram Arnold - Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Staff ML Systems Engineer at Cruise, Staff Software Engineer at Twitter, CTO at Handle, Founder at Trust.cc

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Stanford PhD is shrinking lab-grade precision navigation instruments into matchbox-sized chips for GPS-denied environments

• Google Travel Ads and AI product leader, repeat founder with exit, enters stealth

• Dataiku and Datadog alum is building an AI dispatch and back-office automation platform for water, fire, and mold restoration companies

• Harvard MBA, former xAI post-trainer, and Navy F/A-18 pilot is building real-time aerial intelligence for defense and public safety operators

• Apple, Airbnb and TikTok tech lead enters stealth

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Jonas Knecht - Co-Founder & Co-CTO at Knit Health

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: PhD in computational health and econometrics at University of California Berkeley, Research Fellow at University of Chicago, Graduate Research Assistant at University of Cambridge

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Knit Health is a healthcare intelligence platform, spun out of UC Berkeley, that learns from hundreds of millions of clinical decisions to model how care is actually delivered and optimize patient-provider matching within existing workflows.

HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Industry: HealthTech, Clinical AI, Health Systems | Team Size: 13

Key Investors: Uncork Capital, Frist Cressey Ventures, Moxxie Ventures, and Coalition Operators

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Years

Behrad Habib Afshar - Founder at Mavericks Photonics

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: PhD in Electrical Engineering / Applied Physics at Stanford University, Precision Optical Sensing Consultant at Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems, MEng at Imperial College London

Connect on: LinkedIn

Mavericks Photonics is building photonic-integrated sensor chips that deliver lab-grade precision navigation and situational awareness for autonomous systems operating in GPS-denied environments, shrunk into matchbox-sized form factors.

HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Industry: Deep Tech, Photonics, Defense & Autonomous Systems

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Years 5 Months

Nick Clouse - Founder at Dispatcher

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: MBA at Harvard Business School, Post-Training at xAI, Product Manager at Anduril Industries, Program Manager at Meta, F/A-18 Pilot at US Navy

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Dispatcher is a real-time aerial intelligence platform built for defense and public safety, delivering mission-ready situational awareness with no blind spots.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Defense Tech, Aerial Intelligence, Public Safety | Team Size: 14

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 5 Months

Sam Jafari - Co-Founder at TelemetryLab

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Senior Director, Data & AI at Archer, Executive Technology Advisor at Relativity Space, Director of Data Engineering & AI at Lucid Motors, Data Engineering Manager at Amazon Web Services, Data Engineering Manager at Twitter

Connect on: LinkedIn

TelemetryLab is an AI-native platform for vehicle telemetry, diagnostics, and root cause analysis, serving fleet operators, OEMs, and Tier 1 suppliers with a closed-loop system that turns raw sensor data into deterministic engineering answers.

HQ: Palo Alto, California, United States

Industry: Vehicle Intelligence, AI/ML, Data Infrastructure

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year

Jacob Korniak - Co-Founder at Hank

FounderDNA: Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Enterprise Territory Manager at Dataiku, Account Executive at Datadog, GTM at Furhat Robotics, Founding AE at Hyper, Founding Board Member at Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Hank is an AI dispatch platform built exclusively for water, fire, and mold restoration companies, handling inbound calls 24/7, dispatching emergencies, and automating back-office work including insurance documentation and CRM updates.

HQ: Austin, Texas, United States

Industry: AI Agents, Field Service Automation, InsurTech | Team Size: 3

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Anurag Jain - CEO and Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Head of Product - Travel Ads and AI Ads at Google, CEO & Co-founder at Voltix, CTO & Head of Product at Hitfix (acquired by Uproxx Media), CEO & co-founder at Gigzee, Product Manager at Microsoft

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Palo Alto, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Yandong Liu - Founder / CEO at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Co-founder and CTO at Connectly.ai, CTO at Strava, VP Engineering at NetEase, Engineering at Uber, Researcher at Microsoft, Researcher at Yahoo!, Computer Science PhD at Carnegie Mellon University

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

George Ezenna - Co-Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Co-Founder at CloudTrucks, Product Engineer at Intercom, Product Engineer at Scotty Labs, Software Engineering Intern at Yammer, Inc., Explorer Intern at Microsoft, MIT CS

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Jason Ederle - Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Senior Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead / AI Creator Tools at Cantina, iOS Tech Lead at TikTok, iOS Tech Lead at Airbnb, Tech Lead at Google, iOS Software Engineer at Meta, Software Engineer at Apple

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Jacob Kieser - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies, Software Engineer at Uber, Software Engineer Intern at Salesforce, Software Engineer Intern at Expedia Group

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Snap neural interfaces director, and NextMind founder (acquired by Snap) enters stealth

• Harvard MBA and ex-Google PM is building a process intelligence platform to map and redesign enterprise operations

• Ex-Figure and Dexterity robotics founding engineer enters stealth

• Former Meta Research Director and CMU robotics PhD is building recursive self-improving superintelligence to automate knowledge discovery

• SpaceX engineering manager and Matter Labs CTO enters stealth

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Yuandong Tian - Co-Founder at Recursive

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#303

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Research Director at Meta (11 years), PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineer at Google

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Recursive is building a recursive self-improving superintelligence platform to automate knowledge discovery.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Research & Development | Team Size: 27

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months

Tanay Padhi - Co-Founder at Drawbridge

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University, Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Head of Product at Orby AI, Product Manager at Google, Venture Scout at Andreessen Horowitz, Product Manager at Found, Harvard MBA

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Drawbridge is a process intelligence platform that maps how enterprise operations actually run, enabling teams to redesign workflows with confidence.

HQ: United States

Industry: Enterprise SaaS, Process Intelligence | Team Size: 4

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months

Shihan Tao - Founder & CEO at Dekopon AI

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#279

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Director - Head of Product Engineering at Nuro, Engineering Manager at Google, Senior Software Engineer at Fitbit, Stanford GSB

Connect on: LinkedIn

Dekopon AI deploys AI agents for frontline operations including customer support, recruiting, training, and task tracking, upgrading enterprise workflows to AI-native.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise SaaS

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months

Akshay Trikha - Founder at Madrone

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: ML Engineer, Office of the CTO at QuantumScape, Graduate Student Researcher at UC Berkeley College of Engineering, Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories

Connect on: LinkedIn

Madrone builds dew-point cooling systems for data centers, delivering 30% reductions in power and water consumption compared to conventional methods, with an initial focus on Texas.

HQ: United States

Industry: CleanTech, Data Center Infrastructure | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months

Alex Campbell - Co-Founder at Type

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Senior Product Manager at Meta, Product Manager at Twitter, Co-Founder at Peak Podcasting, Senior Product Manager at HackerOne

Connect on: LinkedIn

Type is a multiplayer AI platform enabling teams to create AI teammates that integrate with company tools across marketing, sales, support, coding, and more.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, B2B SaaS | Team Size: 4

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Sid Kouider - CEO and Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Founder & CEO at NextMind (acquired by Snap), Director of Neural Interfaces at Snap Inc., Professor at CNRS

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Harry Su - CEO and Co-Founder at Stealth Robotics Startup

Building next-generation contact-aware robotics infrastructure for domestic manufacturing.

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Founding Engineer & Robotics Lead at Dexterity, Inc., Robotics Manipulation AI Engineer at Figure, Research Assistant at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Head of Robotics Engineering at Tacta Systems

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months

Anthony Rose - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: CTO at Matter Labs, Senior Software Engineering Manager at SpaceX, Data Science Manager at Uber, Data Scientist at Expedia

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months

Peeyush Kumar - CEO/Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree

Prior Experience: Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research, Co-founder/CTO at Engooden Health, Cofounder at Cohort Intelligence, Senior Director of Engineering at TransformativeMed

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

Julien Jaber - Co-Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Research Assistant at UC Berkeley, Applied Data Scientist at Meta, Sr. Data Scientist at Uber

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Google cloud silicon engineer and Intel Xeon architect enters stealth

• Serial SaaS founder and Salesforce advisor launches a Spotify-style B2B subscription platform for celebrity digital twins

• Dropbox AI engineering director and Amazon head enters stealth

• Insight Partners and Foundation Capital investor, Sups founder (acquired by US News), enters stealth

• Ex-Uber staff designer is building a platform that distills frontier LLMs into fast, cheap specialist models for product teams

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Max Di Capua - Co-Founder & CEO at 19th

Prior Experience: Staff Product Designer at Uber, Design Lead (Merchant) at Postmates by Uber, Product Designer at Humble Bundle, Product Designer at Mixbook

Connect on: LinkedIn

Co-Founder: Spencer Thurston (Staff Designer / Sr Manager at Uber)

19th is an AI platform that searches hundreds of model candidates and distills the best into small, fast specialist models for product tasks such as extraction, classification, scoring, and ranking — optimized to beat frontier LLMs on accuracy, latency, and cost.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months

Alain Denzler - Founder & CEO at Twinity

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Fellow at EWOR, Founder & CEO at getitAI, Co-Founder & Product Director at Pitcher, Partner Advisory Board Member at Salesforce CRM Analytics

Connect on: LinkedIn

Twinity is a B2B subscription platform for digital twins of celebrities and talent, managing rights, distribution, and monetization of likeness while giving businesses access to a curated talent roster — modelled similarly to how Spotify licenses music streaming.

HQ: United States - Switzerland

Industry: Creator Economy, AI Licensing, B2B SaaS

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 Months

Dan Li - Co-Founder & CEO at Argos

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founder at Shopbolt, Senior Product Manager at Faire, Manager Strategy & Finance at Airbnb, Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Argos helps in-house legal teams surface institutional knowledge grounded in their team’s past decisions, enabling faster and more confident legal delivery.

HQ: United States

Industry: LegalTech, Enterprise AI, B2B SaaS

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 Months

Mehdi Rais - Co-Founder & CEO at Davis AI

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Master in Management at HEC Paris, Finance & Management at London School of Economics, Bachelor’s at IEP Paris, Angel Investor at Uncovr, Angel Investor at Daisy

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Davis AI is an AI-native real estate company that accelerates early-stage development and architectural design.

HQ: France

Industry: PropTech, AI, Architecture | Team Size: 10

Latest Funding: $5.5M Pre-Seed on 5/6/2026

Key Investors: Heartcore Capital, Balderton Capital

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 Months

Jonathan Andersson - Founder at Moni

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founder at Bronn, Co-Founder at Bluebook (Backed by EQT & Y Combinator), GTM at Quartr, Analyst at Bambora

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Moni is an AI-powered expense management tool that automatically finds, downloads, and matches receipts on behalf of finance teams.

HQ: Sweden

Industry: FinTech, Expense Management

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Sonal Jain - Founder and CEO at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Director of Software Engineering at Google, Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, Research Assistant at Information Sciences Institute

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 Months

Sam Mckennoch - Building at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Manager at Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Co-Founder at EarthSenseAI, Engineering Manager ML at WellSaid Labs, Research Manager at Deepgram

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Anirudh Seth - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Senior Director of Engineering, AI at Dropbox, Head of Engineering and Science, Game Ads Innovation at Amazon Web Services, Head of Engineering at Amazon

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Rehan Rupawalla - Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Founder at Sups (Acquired by US News), Investor at Insight Partners, Investor at Foundation Capital, Generative AI at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Account Leadership & Research at Mercor

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

Ram Padmanabhan - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Hardware Engineer, Cloud & Infrastructure Silicon at Google, Sr. Director Datacenter Validation of Xeon & Networking SoCs at Intel, Principal Engineer, Computer Architect for Xeon Phi (HPC & Deep Learning) at Intel

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Google DeepMind and Together AI engineer is building agentic operating procedures for enterprise ERPs

• Berkeley PhD, Determined AI founder (acquired by HPE), and HPE AI VP enters stealth

• Stanford oncology fellow with MD/PhD is applying AI to biopsy slides to unlock molecular intelligence for cancer care

• Former Google engineer, ByteDance AI tech lead, and Flip CDAO enters stealth

• Former SpaceX engineer and IBM ML researcher is building an AI scientific intelligence platform for semiconductors, batteries, and advanced materials

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Eva Tuecke - Co-Founder at Altara

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University, Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Software Engineer at SpaceX, Machine Learning Researcher at IBM, Software Engineer at Clay, Researcher in Computational Particle Physics at Fermilab

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Altara is building the scientific intelligence platform that helps frontier industries accelerate R&D through manufacturing.

HQ: United States

Industry: Deep Tech AI, Scientific R&D, Industrial AI | Team Size: 10

Key Investors: Greylock, Neo, BoxGroup, Liquid 2 Ventures

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year

Dhruva Bansal - Co-Founder & CEO at FlowGen Labs

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Machine Learning Engineer at Together AI, Founding ML Engineer at Refuel, Research Engineer at Google DeepMind, Software Development Engineer at Amazon Robotics

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

FlowGen Labs builds agentic operating procedures for ERPs, enabling enterprises to execute workflows at machine speed and improve continuously from every transaction exception.

HQ: United States

Industry: Enterprise AI, ERP Automation | Team Size: 13

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 5 Months

Ryan Quinton - Co-Founder at Perception Medicine

FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Oncology Fellow at Stanford Health Care, Resident Physician at Stanford Health Care, MD/PhD in Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics at Boston University School of Medicine

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Perception Medicine applies AI to standard biopsy slides to generate spatial proteomic and transcriptomic maps at single-cell resolution, enabling oncologists and pharma partners to predict molecular biology and clinical outcomes without specialized assays.

HQ: United States

Industry: Precision Oncology, Biotech, AI Diagnostics | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 Months

Michael Belhassen - Founder & CEO at Anoria

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: iPhone Product Design at Apple (multiple roles), MEng at Imperial College London

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Anoria is building the first wearable device for the emotional intelligence era. (YC P26)

HQ: United States

Industry: Wearables, Consumer Hardware, WellTech | Team Size: 5

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Tal Zohar Avda - CEO & Co-Founder at UNYX AI

FounderDNA: Former VC/Investor, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Managing Partner at Launchbay Capital (invested in Anthropic, Revolut, Klarna, Carta, Cohere), Founder and CEO at ArtuData (acquired), CEO (Israel) at FXCM

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

UNYX AI is a global interbank settlement network connecting medium-sized financial institutions to instantaneous cross-border liquidity, eliminating reliance on major correspondent banks and reducing settlement time from days to hours.

HQ: United Kingdom

Industry: FinTech, Interbank Settlement, B2B Infrastructure | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Evan Sparks - Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Founder and CEO at Determined AI (acquired by HPE), VP & GM AI Solutions and AI Cloud at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, PhD & MS (Computer Science) at UC Berkeley

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

Behzad Haghgoo - Cofounder, CEO at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Cofounder and CEO at Tym (Acquired by Roblox), Product Manager at Roblox, Student Researcher at Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), Data Science Intern at C3.ai

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

Vishvak Murahari - Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: AI PhD Candidate at Princeton University, Research Intern at Google, Research Intern at Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Software Engineering Intern at Microsoft

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months

Ruofan Ding - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Chief Data and AI Officer at Flip, Tech Lead of US E-com Video Recommendation at ByteDance, Software Engineer at Google

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Guilherme Penedo - Co-Founder and CEO at Stealth

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: ML Research Engineer at Hugging Face, Machine Learning Engineer at LightOn

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Director of AI at Cruise (launched SF's first commercial robotaxi) is building self-driving personal finance

• Ex-Dropbox and Facebook designer, repeat founder with an exit to Perplexity, enters stealth

• YC alum and ex-Director of Operations at Traba is building a specialty insurance placement platform for retail agents

• VoiceBase founder ($120M exit to LivePerson) is back with a new stealth venture at the intersection of AI and finance

• Former Tesla AI Hardware Technical Director enters stealth

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Ambrish Tyagi - Founder & CEO at Rivo

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#2267

FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Director of AI at Cruise, Head of AI – Halo & Principal Scientist at Amazon Lab126, AI Advisor at Bain Capital Ventures, Fellow at South Park Commons

Connect on: LinkedIn

Rivo is an autonomous personal finance platform that sweeps idle cash from checking accounts into higher-yield instruments, monitors spending, and returns funds before bills are due, without requiring users to change banks or habits.

HQ: United States

Industry: FinTech, Personal Finance, AI | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 2 Months

Sebastian Bugal - Founder at Mercora

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Entrepreneur in Residence at Antler, AI & ML Software Engineer at KPMG Switzerland, Machine Learning Engineer at Alessa (Tier1 Financial Solutions), Co-Founder at Kliq Social, Founding Engineer at Vezgo

Connect on: LinkedIn

Mercora is a B2B SaaS platform that automates trade documentation reconciliation for commodity trading, using AI to extract structured data, match documents to trades, and flag discrepancies.

HQ: Switzerland

Industry: FinTech, Supply Chain, B2B SaaS

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Luke Button - Co-Founder & CEO at Hedge

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at Fernstone (YCF25), Director of Operations at Traba, Head of Growth at Antimetal, Co-Founder at Contrast (acquired)

Connect on: LinkedIn

Hedge is a specialty insurance placement platform for retail agents, providing direct access to specialty markets through a single submission.

HQ: United States

Industry: InsurTech | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months

Stephen Fong - Co-Founder at Castellan AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Head of Business Operations & GTM at Eventual, Head of Business Operations & Revenue Strategy at Unity, Financial Analyst at J.P. Morgan, UC Berkeley alum

Connect on: LinkedIn

Castellan AI is a 24/7 AI platform for property managers, handling leasing, maintenance, and operations end-to-end.

HQ: United States

Industry: PropTech, AI Agents, B2B SaaS

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months

Waldo Rabie - Founder at Zoont Health

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CTO at Rezon.ai, Co-Founder & CTO at Keepsake, Co-Founder & CTO at Pegasus Innovations, Senior Engineer at Klarna, Founding Engineer at Cincinnati Ventures

Connect on: LinkedIn

Zoont Health is a direct primary care platform offering unlimited physician access for a flat monthly fee, with same-day appointments, labs and prescriptions at cost, and AI-assisted health insights drawn from records and wearable data (no insurance required.)

HQ: United States

Industry: HealthTech, Direct Primary Care

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Hadi Goudarzi - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Technical Director of AI Hardware at Tesla, PhD in Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California, Senior Staff Engineer & Manager at Qualcomm

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Mountain View, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Walter Bachtiger - Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup

Building at the intersection of AI and finance.

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Founder & CEO at VoiceBase (acquired by LivePerson), VP of Voice AI at LivePerson, CTO at International Training Institute, Head of Distribution Strategies & Channel Development at Swiss Union of Raiffeisen Banks

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Colin Dunn - Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Head of Design, Computer at Perplexity, Founder & CEO at Visual Electric (acquired by Perplexity; featured at launch in October 2023), Product Designer at Dropbox, Product Designer at Facebook

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Badri Srinivasan - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Group Product Manager, Machine Learning at Attentive, Group Product Manager, Machine Learning at Wayfair, Data Scientist / MLE at BCG GAMMA

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Fabien Chraim - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: UC Berkeley PhD, Principal Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Co-Founder & CTO at Civil Maps

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Google Gemini and TensorFlow PM is building an AI decision layer for global supply chains

• Google DeepMind robotics lead enters stealth

• Harvard alum and former Ginkgo Bioworks exec is building an automated chemical synthesis platform for drug discovery

• Former Meta VP of GenAI and Reality Labs engineering leader is now building in stealth

• Tiger Management and Elliott Management alum is building a context engine for AI-native investment banks

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Megha Malpani - Co-Founder at Mercator

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode 41 weeks ago

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Product Manager – Gemini (prev. Bard) at Google, Product Manager – ChromeOS Intelligence at Google, MBA at Stanford GSB, Botha Chan Innovation Fellow at Stanford University

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Mercator is building the decision intelligence layer for global supply chains, replacing spreadsheet-driven workflows with an orchestration platform that coordinates the millions of daily decisions made across competing actors and shifting conditions.

HQ: United States

Industry: Supply Chain AI, Enterprise Software | Team Size: 3

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 Months

Crawford Hawkins - Founder & CEO at Virgil

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Portfolio Manager at Tiger Management, Investment Professional at Elliott Management Corporation, MBA at Columbia Business School, Associate at Credit Suisse, Co-Founder & CEO at Bottleneck

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Virgil is a context engine for AI-native investment banks and private funds, orchestrating data across existing systems and feeding it into AI tools with domain-specific financial context for deal pipeline, LP/GP relationships, and reporting.

HQ: New York, New York, United States

Industry: FinTech, AI Infrastructure, Financial Services

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 5 Months

Ila Mathur - Co-Founder at Via

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Researcher at Stanford AI Laboratory (SAIL), Venture Fellow at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Venture Fellow at Xfund, Founding Team at Fizz

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Via builds custom AI agents with reinforcement learning for enterprise deployments.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software | Team Size: 4

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 4 Months

Alona Nadler - Co-Founder & CEO at Trayo AI

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Head of Product – AWS Glue, Managed Airflow & AppFlow at Amazon Web Services, Kibana Product Lead at Elastic, Product Lead – ArcSight Security at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Trayo is a signal intelligence platform for go-to-market teams, turning fragmented market data into prioritized, context-aware actions for sales reps and AI agents.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Revenue Intelligence, B2B SaaS | Team Size: 9

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year

Ian Meyer - Co-Founder & CEO at Satomic

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: MBA at MIT Sloan, Harvard alum, Associate Director at Ginkgo Bioworks, Private Equity Associate at Bain Capital, Life Sciences Go-to-Market at Liquid AI

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Satomic is an automated, multi-step chemical synthesis platform designed to accelerate small molecule drug discovery and remove the core bottleneck between idea and molecule.

HQ: United States

Industry: Drug Discovery, Deep Tech, Chemical Synthesis | Team Size: 9

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 5 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Pannag Sanketi - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Robotics Lead at Google DeepMind (Gemini Robotics, Table-Tennis Robots, Open X-Embodiment), Berkeley PhD

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Jocelyn Shieh - CEO at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Chief Executive Officer at Chaima (a16z) sr005-backed, Accelerator Head (Google Play VC / Startups) at Google Play, Global Business Development Manager, Artificial Intelligence at Unity Technologies, UC Berkeley alum

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Keyu Chen - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Staff Machine Learning Scientist at PayPal, Business Intelligence Engineer at Amazon, ex-Deloitte

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Akram Sheriff - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Head of Platform at Hippocratic AI, Senior Technical Leader Software Engineering at Cisco, Member of Technical Staff R&D at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Amir Frenkel - Founder at Stealth Mode

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: VP of GenAI and VP of Engineering & Product, XR Tech - Reality Labs at Meta; Engineering Director, Head of AR & Wearables Engineering at Google; Director, Software Development at Lab126, Chief AI Officer at Eclipse

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Anthropic Technical Staff Member and Stripe engineer is building reinforcement learning environments that automate ML research and engineering

• Ex-Facebook PM and Stackbit CEO (acq. by Netlify) enters stealth

• Former Autodesk Construction exec (via Pype acquisition) is building an AI preconstruction risk platform that catches scope conflicts before they hit budgets

• Amazon Alexa AI and Prime Video engineering leader enters stealth

• Early employee at Durin, Hadrian, and Stoke Space is building next-gen human strength and endurance augmentation tech

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Jennifer Zhou - Chief Executive Officer at Preference Model

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, Software Engineer at Stripe

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Preference Model builds reinforcement learning environments that automate ML research and engineering workflows.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, MLOps | Team Size: 6

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 4 Months

Sunil Dorairajan - Founder & CEO at Wyre AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at Pype (acquired by Autodesk), Senior Director at Autodesk Construction Solutions, MS Construction Management at Virginia Tech

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Wyre AI is an AI-powered preconstruction risk management platform that analyzes construction document sets to auto-generate structured scope packages and identify coordination conflicts before they impact project budgets or timelines.

HQ: Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States

Industry: ConTech, AI, Construction | Team Size: 12

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 3 Months

Kevin Chiu - Co-Founder & CEO at Thea Technology

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#184

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Co-Founder, COO & CPO at Catalyst Software, Investor at Digraph (acquired by DataDog), Angel at First Round Capital, Head of Sales & Revenue Operations at DigitalOcean, Forbes 30 Under 30 (Enterprise Technology, 2019)

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Thea Technology is building an AI doctor for aesthetics, using a single photo to recommend OTC products, facilitate access to prescriptions, and match users with cosmetic treatments and providers at competitive pricing.

HQ: United States

Industry: HealthTech, Consumer AI, Aesthetics | Team Size: 9

Latest Funding: $4M Pre-Seed Round on 4/29/2026

Key Investors: General Catalyst, Stellation Capital, Dnipro VC

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 24 Months

Elizabeth Dorman - Co-Founder & CEO at Era

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Senior Product Engineer at HP IQ, Product Engineer at Humane, Intern at Apple (Prototyping), BS Engineering at Princeton University

Connect on: LinkedIn

Era is the intelligence layer for physical devices. The platform that lets anyone give their products the ability to think, listen, and respond in a style that’s entirely their own.

HQ: United States

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 11

Latest Funding: $9M Seed Round on 4/23/2026 | Total Funding: $11M

Key Investors: Abstract Ventures, BoxGroup, Collaborative Fund, Mozilla Ventures, Topology Ventures, Betaworks

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 10 months

David Venegas - Founder & CEO at Edgerun Industries

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Head of Operations (Employee #1) at Durin, Engineer at Hadrian, Software Engineer at Stoke Space

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Edgerun Industries is building next-generation technology to augment human strength and endurance, with active development across the U.S. and international partners.

HQ: United States

Industry: Robotics, Deep Tech, Human Augmentation | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Dan Barak - Co-Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Principal Product Manager at Facebook, Co-Founder, CEO at Stackbit (acquired by Netlify), VP Product at Netlify, Group Product Manager at Lyft

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Hrishi Amravatkar - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Leadership - Interactive Ads Prime Video Player at Amazon, Engineering Leadership - Alexa AI LLM Skills Kit at Amazon, Head of Platform Engineering at Secureframe, Sr Engineering Manager at Box

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Jose Enrique Hernandez - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Director, Threat Research Team at Splunk, Senior Vice President of Technology at ZENEDGE, Cloud Threat Researcher at Lacework, SOC Manager at Fastly

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Dan Wallace - Founder at Stealth Startup

Prior Experience: Chief Revenue Officer at Nuvitek, Area Vice President at ServiceNow, Strategic Advisor at momba.ai

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Yossi Barshishat - Co-Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Co-Founder and VP R&D at Imvision (Acquired by Intuit), AI and API Security Manager at Intuit, Co-Founder and VP R&D at Quado Media

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Israel

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-OpenAI and ElevenLabs engineer is building a new computer for the next era of human-AI interaction (raised $12M)

• Rice bioengineering PhD and Dartmouth Health AI director enters stealth

• Former Zapier SVP, ex-Google Robotics, and Frog Design alum is building a revenue intelligence layer

• UChicago Booth MBA, Actuate CEO/Co-Founder, and USMC veteran enters stealth

• Former Carta, Salesforce, and Apple product leader is building a revenue platform that deploys AI agents to automate post-sales customer success

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Yu Su - Co-Founder & CEO at NeoCognition

FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree

Prior Experience: Senior Researcher at Microsoft, Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, Sloan Research Fellow

Connect on: LinkedIn

Co-founder: Xiang Deng (Senior Research Scientist at Scale AI, Research Engineer at Google)

NeoCognition is an AI agent lab building specialized intelligence agents that continuously learn toward expert-level capability

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, Deep Tech | Team Size: 12

Latest Funding: $40M Seed Round on 4/21/2026

Key Investors: Cambium Capital, Walden Catalyst Ventures, Vista Equity Partners

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 Months

Daniel Edrisian - Founder at Blackstar

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, Software Engineer at ElevenLabs, Founder at Alex (YC F24), Software Engineering Intern at Google & Facebook & Apple

Connect on: LinkedIn

Blackstar is building a new computer to unlock major improvements in human-AI interaction

HQ: United States

Industry: Human-Computer Interaction, AI Hardware, Deep Tech | Team Size: 2

Latest Funding: $12M Seed Round on 4/23/2026

Key Investors: Abstract Ventures, SV Angel, Naval Ravikant, Chapter One, Timeless Partners

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Anton Kravchenko - Co-Founder & CEO at Sonora

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#286

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Senior Director of Product Management at Carta, Director of Product Management at Salesforce, Senior Product Manager at MuleSoft, Product at Apple

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Sonora is a revenue platform for post-sales teams that deploys AI agents across a book of business to automate customer outreach, score account health, and surface expansion and renewal signals.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Revenue Operations, AI Agents, B2B SaaS | Team Size: 4

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 1 Month

Kate Deyneka - Founder at Reelful

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Machine Learning Engineer at Snap, MS at UC Irvine, MS at TU Delft & Erasmus University Rotterdam

Connect on: LinkedIn

Reelful is an agentic video editor available on iOS.

HQ: United States

Industry: AI, Video Editing, Consumer Apps

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months

Sheryl Soo - Co-Founder at ACRONYM

FounderDNA: Serial Founder

Prior Experience: SVP Strategy & Head of New Products at Zapier, Senior Director Product Design at Hootsuite, Ex-Google Robotics, Ex-Frog Design

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

ACRONYM is a revenue intelligence layer that connects to a team’s existing stack, surfaces actionable insights from deals, calls, and conversations, and delivers them where teams already work — without requiring anyone to ask.

HQ: Canada

Industry: Revenue Intelligence, GTM AI, B2B SaaS | Team Size: 4

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Brady Hunt - Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree

Prior Experience: PhD in Bioengineering at Rice University, Director of AI at Artisight, Clinical Associate Professor at Dartmouth Health, Research Scientist at Dartmouth College

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Sonny Tai - Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: MBA at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Actuate, USMC Veteran

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: New York, New York, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Austin Yoshino - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: CEO (acquired) at Anja Health, Growth Hacker at Novel Ventures, Founder at Joyn Chat, Special Projects at Noa Botanicals

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Liza Goldstein - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO (exited) at Noa by Swappin, Product Manager at Pinterest, Product & Communications Manager at Airbus

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Fred Dogan - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: CEO & Co-Founder at Permify (acquired by FusionAuth), Co-Founder at Fluffzy Product Studio, Co-Founder at Jooseph

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-CEO of DataSift (acquired) and ex-COO at Kustomer (acquired for $1B+) enters stealth

• Founding AI Engineer at Persona AI (acquired by Luma AI) is building AI scientists for semiconductor materials discovery

• CMU PhD and Toyota Research Institute / Meta / Apple research scientist enters stealth

• MIT and Tsinghua researcher is building a generative AI subsurface world model for mining

• Former EyecareLive co-founder (acquired) and telehealth president at Visibly is building an AI operations platform for founders

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Advaith Sridhar - Co-Founder at Matforge

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Research Engineer at Luma AI, TA for CMU’s flagship ML course, Founding AI Engineer at Persona AI (acquired by Luma AI), Project Lead at AI4Bharat, Product Manager at Flipkart

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Matforge builds AI scientists designed to accelerate materials discovery for the semiconductor industry.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Materials Science, Deep Tech | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Rajesh Ramchandani - CEO and Co-Founder at Gateway AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at EyecareLive (acquired by Visibly), Head of Product Management at Cisco, CEO at Ilumina Health, President of Telehealth at Visibly, Co-Founder & VP of Products at Cumulogic

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Gateway AI builds a platform that helps founders run companies with AI as their core operations engine, combining human and AI agents to drive efficiency, productivity, and exponential growth.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, HealthTech | Team Size: 15

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 3 Months

Chance Jiajie L. - CEO & Founder at Mohan

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Research Affiliate at MIT, Research Assistant at MIT Media Lab, Research SDE at Microsoft Research Asia, CEO & Founder at SoCity, Research Assistant at Tsinghua University

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Mohan is building a generative AI-powered subsurface world model for resource definition, helping mining teams locate ore bodies with fewer drill holes, faster timelines, and less capital.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Mining Tech, Deep Tech

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 Months

Lingxiu Z. - Co-Founder at Liminal Machines

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Adjunct Faculty at UC Berkeley, R&D at Opal Electronics, Robotics AI R&D at GREYSHED, Research Robotics & EEG Manager at Vassar College, Design Consultant at Colgate-Palmolive

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Liminal Machines builds an AI planning tool that goes beyond wireframes, helping teams think through requirements, edge cases, and technical considerations that traditional design tools miss.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, B2B SaaS | Team Size: 4

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 2 Months

Rob Truxler - CTO & Co-Founder at Waveform Intelligence

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#261

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Director of Engineering at Wayfair, Director of Engineering at TripAdvisor, Android Tech Lead at TripAdvisor, MA at Boston University

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Waveform Intelligence builds an always-on AI partner for merchant teams, helping them manage catalogs, track performance changes, and act faster on assortment, pricing, and inventory decisions.

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Retail Tech, B2B SaaS

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Rob Bailey - CEO & Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: COO & Co-Founder at CrewAI, CEO at DataSift (acquired by Meltwater), COO & GTM at Kustomer (acquired by Facebook for $1B+), CEO at MState (2 Unicorns), MBA at MIT Sloan

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Shun Iwase - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute, Research Scientist Intern at Meta, Research Scientist Intern at Apple

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Andrew Berberick - CEO & Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: MS at Stanford University, CTO/CPO at Ryder System, Mechanical Engineering Intern at Google, Co-Founder at Baton, EIR at 8VC

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Irawadee T. - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Research Lead at Stanford HAI, ML Researcher at Superfluid Dx, Research at Stanford SAIL

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Alexis Roos - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Sr Manager Applied Science at Amazon, Director ML & Data Science at Salesforce Einstein.ai, Sr Manager Machine Learning at Twitter

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Galileo CEO and senior exec across Google Cloud, U.S. Bank, and Barclays is building an AI agent OS for regulated finance

• DeepMind, OpenAI, and Apple research leader enters stealth

• Stanford PhD and ex-SpaceX/NASA engineer builds modular electrified reactors to replace fossil-fuel-based chemical production

• Stanford Medicine PhD and former Google AI Healthcare Resident enters stealth

• Former Meta monetization and ranking AI leader enters stealth

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Naren Krishna - CEO & Co-Founder at Balerion

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Founding Engineer at Ponder, Software Engineer at Snowflake, ML Engineer at Determined AI, Undergraduate Researcher at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Balerion is an end-to-end agentic AI platform purpose-built for mortgage loan manufacturing, enabling lenders to move loans through origination faster by identifying missing documents, resolving guideline gaps, and automating complex income analyses.

HQ: United States

Industry: AI/ML, FinTech, Mortgage Tech | Team Size: 2

Latest Funding: $6M Seed Round on 4/16/2026

Key Investors: Kleiner Perkins, Formation, BoxGroup

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months

Derek White - Founder and CEO at Primitive

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: CEO at Galileo Financial Technologies, VP Global FSI Cloud at Google, Chief Digital Officer at U.S. Bank, Chief Digital & Design Officer at Barclays, Global Head of Client Solutions at BBVA

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Primitive is an AI agent operating system purpose-built for regulated financial institutions, enabling banks to deploy, govern, and measure AI agents at production scale with full auditability and compliance.

HQ: Utah, United States

Industry: AI/ML, FinTech, Enterprise Software | Team Size: 6

Key Investors: Fin Capital, Pelion Venture Partners

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months

Michael Maclennan - Co-CEO & Co-Founder at Arc

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: General Manager at Square Hardware, Manager at Bain & Company, MBA at Wharton Business School

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Arc is a drive-thru voice AI platform purpose-built for e-commerce grade optimization.

HQ: United States

Industry: AI/ML, SMB Tech, Commerce | Team Size: 7

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 8 Months

Raisa Litchfield - Co-Founder & CEO at Opsora Health

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Product Manager AI & Data at Microsoft, Software Engineering Intern at Google, Female Founder Circle AI Fellow at Pear VC

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Opsora Health is an AI platform that coordinates pre-surgical workflows for hospitals, managing clearances, patient confirmations, and scheduling to ensure booked cases proceed on time.

HQ: United States

Industry: HealthTech, AI/ML, Surgical Operations | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months

Calvin H Lin - Co-Founder & CEO at Cosine

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Propulsion Associate Engineer at SpaceX, Power Electronics Engineer at Astranis, Research Intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Cosine is a Stanford spinout building electrified chemical reactors that deliver cheaper and cleaner chemicals compared to fossil fuel alternatives, with a modular, efficient, and fully reconfigurable design.

HQ: United States

Industry: CleanTech, Chemical Manufacturing, Deep Tech

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Ian Goodfellow - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Principal Scientist at DeepMind, Director at Apple, Research Scientist at OpenAI, Research Scientist at Google

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months

Akshat Sharma - Founder & Builder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: MBA at University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Head of Product (Generative AI) at Google, Product Manager at Microsoft, Co-Founder at uphop.ai

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Stylianos Serghiou - Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup

Building the AI-native operating system for proactive, longitudinal, evidence-based, and family-centered care.

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: PhD from Stanford University School of Medicine, AI Resident (Healthcare) at Google, VP Head of Clinical Data Science at Prolaio, Co-Founder and CSO at Publibee

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Nick Locascio - Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at Booth AI (YC W23), Director of Engineering at Standard Cognition, Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, Member of Technical Staff at DoorDash

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Dai Li - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Director Monetization GenAI & RankingAI at Meta, Head of DS Ads ML & Experimentation at Facebook, Head of DS Trust & Safety at Airbnb

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Former Google Group PM and NVIDIA ML/AI platform leader enters stealth

• Ex-Glovo CPO launches AI-native product development platform

• Senior product leader behind ads growth at eBay, Coinbase, Pinterest, and Facebook enters stealth

• 2x acquired founder (Frankie Health, Hulii) builds an AI operating layer for enterprise functions

• Last-mile and supply chain operator with Amazon Logistics and Gelato experience launches stealth logistics startup

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Bartek Kunowski - Co-Founder & CEO at Itera

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Product Officer at Glovo, Co-Founder & CEO at ara, Co-Founder & CEO at Joey, Ex-Software Development Engineer at Amazon

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Itera is an AI-native product development platform that gives product teams a unified environment to propose, refine, and ship changes directly on a live production codebase - enabling PMs, designers, and engineers to collaborate in real time from idea to deployment.

HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Product Management | Team Size: 3

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Seb Poole - CEO & Co-Founder at Modern

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CPTO at Frankie Health (acquired by Unmind), Co-Founder & CPTO at Hulii (acquired), Advisor at Unmind

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Modern is an AI operating layer for enterprise support functions including IT, HR, Legal, and Finance.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months

Chris Blackburn - Co-Founder & CEO at Lattice

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: MBA at Columbia Business School, Co-Founder at Art&Revel, EVP Revenue & Business Development at DAX, General Manager Enterprise at Ouro, Global Head of Strategic Partnerships at SoundCloud

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Lattice is building open-standard embedded payments infrastructure for platforms and SaaS companies, enabling them to offer payment capabilities through a single integration without managing processors, compliance, or fragmented third-party tools.

HQ: New York, United States

Industry: FinTech, Embedded Finance, B2B SaaS | Team Size: 14

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months

Vyas Krishnan - Founder & CEO at Nava AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: First employee and Product Lead at EigenLayer, Product Owner at Nium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign alum

Connect on: LinkedIn

Nava AI is a policy enforcement and trust layer for AI agents, enabling developers to build agents that can safely transact, coordinate tasks, and manage value on behalf of users through escrow, dispute resolution, and economic backstops.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Web3 | Team Size: 6

Latest Funding: $8.3M Seed Round on 4/14/2026

Key Investors: Polychain Capital, Archetype, Hack VC, FalconX, Seed Club

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 4 Months

John Turner - Co-Founder & CEO at RetireMate

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Director of Product Management (Marketplace) at A Place for Mom, Lead Product Manager at CoStar Group, Co-Founder at Half Dome Partners, Sales Executive at McKesson

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

RetireMate is a retirement planning platform that brings together decisions across finances, housing, and healthcare into one place, helping Americans approaching retirement understand how each choice affects the others.

HQ: United States

Industry: FinTech, RetirementTech, Personal Finance

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Year 1 Month

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Nithya Natesan - Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Group Product Manager at Google, Head of Product - ML/AI Platform at NVIDIA, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer, Cloud and Virtualization at Palo Alto Networks

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Dawei Liang - Founder at Stealth Startup

Building a startup facilitating clinical and healthcare research.

FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: PhD & MS at The University of Texas at Austin, Research Intern at Meta, Research Associate at Samsung Research America

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months

Dom H. - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup

Building something new in logistics.

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: VP of Logistics at Gelato, Senior Program Manager, Last Mile at Amazon Logistics, Head of Supply Operations at Houst

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Karoline Morone - Co-Founder at Stealth

Building a new venture in financial infrastructure.

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Kellogg Northwestern, Product Lead at Conduit, Group Product Manager at AstroPay, Senior Product Manager at SumUp, Group Product Manager - Payments & Bills at PicPay

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Brazil

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months

Davide Di Cillo - Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Sr. Director - Head of Product, Advertising at eBay, Director of Product Management at Coinbase, Head of Advertiser Experience and Growth at Pinterest, Lead Product Manager, Ads Growth at Facebook

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Research Director at Google DeepMind and former Principal Research Scientist at Apple launch a multimodal reasoning lab

• Ex-Staff Software Engineer at Databricks with stints at Google and Meta launches an AI-powered end-to-end marketing platform

• Ex-Senior ML Scientist at Adyen and PhD-holding serial founder launches a stealth venture in fashion-tech

• Yale Chemical Engineering grad and Dorm Room Fund Partner goes stealth in biotech

• Ex-ByteDance product lead and South Park Commons alum raises Accel backing for a stealth venture in creative AI

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Sruthi Viswanathan - Founder at Deep Interactions

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: DPhil, Computer Science at University of Oxford, User Experience Researcher at Google, Co-Founder & CTO at The Spaceship Academy, UX Research Scientist at NAVER LABS

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Deep Interactions is a collaborative AI builder for teams, backed by Y Combinator (Batch P26).

HQ: United Kingdom

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Collaboration Tools | Team Size: 3

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months

Andrew Dai - Co-Founder & CEO at Elorian AI

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#304

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Research Scientist (Director) at Google DeepMind, PhD (Machine Learning) at University of Edinburgh, Software Developer at Autonomy

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Co-Founder: Yinfei Yang (Ex-Principal Research Scientist at Apple)

Elorian AI is a multimodal reasoning research and product lab.

HQ: United States

Industry: Artificial Intelligence, AI Research | Team Size: 12

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months

Benjamin Schrom - Co-Founder at Glover Labs

FounderDNA: Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Product Manager at Google, SVP Product Management at Atelio by FIS, Rider & Mapping Product Lead at Lyft, VP of Product Management at Hayden AI

Connect on: LinkedIn

Glover Labs is an agentic AI platform that helps enterprises in regulated industries — insurance, banking, healthcare, and government — modernize legacy software using coordinated AI agents, a proprietary architecture, and an auditable system of record for every transformation decision.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: LegalTech & RegTech | Team Size: 6

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 10 months

Joe Cheuk - CTO, Co-Founder at Pomo

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Staff Software Engineer at Databricks, Software Engineer at Google, Software Engineer at Meta, Founder at Alpha-CX Group, Software Engineer at IBM Canada

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Pomo is an AI-powered marketing platform that helps growth-focused brands replace fragmented tools and manual workflows with a unified system of intelligent agents for planning, creating, and optimizing marketing campaigns end to end.

HQ: United States

Industry: AI Marketing, MarTech, B2B SaaS | Team Size: 18

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months

Aarush Yadav - Co-Founder and CEO at The Subvocal Company

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Georgia Tech alum, Co-Founder & CTO at Greensat Innovation Labs, Chief Technology Officer at Bifröst EdTech, Co-Founder at Markhint, Blockchain Development Intern at Digi Yatra Foundation

Connect on: LinkedIn

The Subvocal Company is building a discreet wearable device that enables knowledge workers to interact with computers using subvocalized thoughts, targeting the future of human-computer interaction.

HQ: United States

Industry: HCI / Wearables, Consumer Tech, AI | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Sophia Latessa - Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: MS & BS at Stanford University, AI/ML Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AI/Data Engineer at AS Roma, Advisor at Fathom

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 months

Erdi Calli - Founder at Stealth

Building in fashion-tech

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: PhD at Radboud University, Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Adyen, MSc in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at HEC Paris, CTO at First Remit, Co-Founder at VNGRS

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Netherlands

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 months

Siiri Ruuhela - Co-Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Master’s Degree at University of Cambridge, Research Affiliate at University of Cambridge, Alternative Data Analyst at Citadel, Product Manager at Bitpanda, Product Manager at Trade Ledger

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United Kingdom

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months

Markus Mak - Co-Founder at Stealth

Building in creative AI, backed by Accel.

FounderDNA: Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Product at ByteDance, Co-Founder at Clipp, South Park Commons alum

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Roxana Grunenwald - Founder at Stealth

Building in biotech.

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: BS in Chemical Engineering at Yale University, Partner at Dorm Room Fund, Venture Fellow at Pear VC, Venture Fellow at Xfund, Summer Associate at Yale Ventures

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-SpaceX Starship structures engineer and Meta Reality Labs designer enters stealth

• Ex-VRChat, EA, and Zynga product leader builds AI-powered social gaming platform for kids

• CEO of acquired healthcare AI startup Mendel.ai enters stealth for act two

• Ex-Houseware CEO (acquired by LaunchDarkly) and product analytics leader enters stealth

• Ex-Labster sales head and Columbia MBA builds AI-native GTM OS for EdTech and public sector

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Eligius J. - Founder at Pillar

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Ex-Managing Partner & Co-Founder at Promised Land Consultancy, ex-Head of Sales (NAMER & LatAm) at Labster, ex-Vice President of Sales & Partnerships at Mentor Collective, Columbia MBA

Connect on: LinkedIn

Pillar is an AI-native Go-To-Market Operating System purpose-built for EdTech and public sector revenue teams.

HQ: United States

Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months

Vidushi S. - Co-Founder at Jurny

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Cloudera, ex-Product Designer at Motiv Technologies, ex-Software Engineer Intern at NVIDIA, ex-Design/SDE Intern at AbbVie, ex-Software Engineer Intern at PayPal

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Jurny deploys AI agents that act like users, continuously testing your product to surface usability issues, bugs, and fixes.

HQ: United States

Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months

Ahmed Alsharif - Founder and CEO at Think

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-CTO at Sandsoft, ex-Head of Reality Labs Automation and Platform Engineering at Meta, ex-Technical Director for North Sea Studios at Electronic Arts (EA), ex-Software Development Engineer for PS4 and PSVR Architecture at PlayStation

Connect on: LinkedIn

Think is dedicated to making AI superintelligence affordable, sustainable, and accessible to everyone.

HQ: United Kingdom

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months

Anshul Dhawan - Founder at Playworlds

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Founder at Social Pixels, ex-Director of Product Management at VRChat, ex-VP Product & Growth at VersusGame, ex-VP Product & Analytics at Supernatural, ex-Senior Director of Product Management and Business Intelligence at Electronic Arts (EA), ex-Head of Product - Growth at Zynga

Connect on: LinkedIn

Playworlds is a social gaming platform where kids use AI to build limitless multiplayer worlds through conversation.

HQ: United States

Industry: Computer Games | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months

Kevin Reid-Morris - Founder at Veranda

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Founder at Readmore Ventures, Founder, CEO - OCAD U CO at OCAD University, ex-Engagement Leader - Strategy & Innovation (Doblin) at Monitor Deloitte

Connect on: LinkedIn

Veranda is the property-level demand intelligence layer for building materials companies.

HQ: Canada

Industry: PropTech

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Karim Galil - Founder & CEO at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at Mendel.ai (acquired)

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Purvish Shah - Co-Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Founding GTM Engineer at CombineHealth (YC W23), Co-Founder at Carboledger, Product Manager at Samsung Electronics

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months

Divyansh Saini - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Product, Analytics at LaunchDarkly, Co-founder & CEO at Houseware (acquired by LaunchDarkly), Angel Investor, ex-Product at Atlan

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 Months

Omar Abdelrahman - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-Product Design Engineer - Reality Labs at Meta, ex-Senior Mechanical Design Engineer - Power Systems at Lightship, ex-Structures Engineer - Starship at SpaceX

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Roei Friedberg - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup

Building a Deep Tech Startup at the intersection of AI, physical security, and national security.

FounderDNA: Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Sales & Partnerships at Visitt, ex-Chief Executive Officer at Aura Smart Air (Americas), ex-VP of Public Sector & B2G Sales at Molekule, Former Paratroopers Company Commander

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: New York, New York, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

Invite early-stage founders in your network to the $100k buyer pitch in SF on 4/16. There’s a panel of 6-7 C-levels/VPs from Gong.io, Superhuman (Grammarly), Okta, and more. 10 startups will be selected to give 2-minute demos, and the winner will receive a $100k cash prize. No joke. Here’s the link to share: https://luma.com/beelieve

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Head of Startup Pipeline at Techstars, co-founder at Favs, and founding team at Orai goes stealth

• Ex-Caltech, NASA JPL, and Meta researcher builds 1-bit LLMs for edge devices

• Former Google Jules engineering head and DeepMind senior AI researcher enters stealth

• Ex-QuantumBlack PM (AI by McKinsey) builds AI operating system for consulting firms

• Salk Institute bioinformatician uses hyperaccumulator plants to extract rare earth elements

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Tobias Haefele - Founder & CEO at Riplo

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Principal Product Manager at QuantumBlack (AI by McKinsey), ex-Expert Engagement Manager at McKinsey, CEO & Co-Founder at cFlow Technologies, ex-Research Consultant at DeepMind

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Riplo is a single workspace for consulting firms to store data, run engagements, and build deliverables through human-to-agent collaboration.

HQ: United Kingdom

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3

Latest Funding: $2.875M Pre-Seed Round on 3/31/2026

Key Investors: Cherry, McKinsey & BCG Partners, the founders of QuantumBlack, BlueLion Capital, & angels from OpenAI, Apple, Goldman Sachs, Hg Capital

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months

Marguerite Benoist - Co-Founder at AquaShield

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Robotics Researcher at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, ex-ML Software Engineer at AIR6 SYSTEMS | AIRBORNE ROBOTICS, ex-Team Leader Navigation Team at EPFL Xplore

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

AquaShield is the smoke detector for water leaks. AquaShield helps real estate portfolios eliminate losses from undetected water leaks.

HQ: United States

Industry: Real Estate Tech

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month

Omead Pooladzandi - Co-Founder at Prism ML

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Sr Staff Algorithm Engineer at Neural Propulsion Systems, ex-Research Scientist at Meta, ex-Intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech Visiting Researcher

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

PrismML builds 1-bit large language models that run locally on edge devices. Their flagship Bonsai 8B model delivers a 14× smaller footprint, 8× faster inference, and 5× lower energy consumption than full-precision equivalents - enabling enterprise AI without datacenter dependency.

HQ: United States

Industry: Information Services | Team Size: 9

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 months

Helena Zeng - Co-Founder at Storyverse AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Head of AI in Entertainment at NextG Tech, ex-Private Equity at China Bridge Capital, ex-Technical Publications Writer, PhD Operations Research at MI, ex-Economics Research Assistant at The London School of Economics and Political Science

Connect on: LinkedIn

Storyverse AI is an AI-native entertainment studio partnering with Hollywood studios and creators to produce films with cinematic quality, consistent characters, and high-end visuals.

HQ: United States

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months

Anthony Aylward - Co-Founder at Rare Flora

FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree

Prior Experience: Ex-Eco Director at Nucleate, ex-Bioinformatics Analyst at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Bioinformatics & Systems Biology at UC San Diego

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Rare Flora uses hyperaccumulator plants to extract rare earth elements from land that is too mineral-rich for agriculture but too diffuse for conventional mining. The model requires no mining infrastructure and can begin production within months of planting.

HQ: United States

Industry: Biotechnology Research | Team Size: 3

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 21 months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Saba Karim - CEO & Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

Building at the intersection of personal superintelligence and physical AI

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Co-founder at Favs, Ex-Head of Startup Pipeline at Techstars, Ex-Founding Team at Orai, Ex-CMO at Evolve App

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States

Industry: Hardware | Team Size: 6

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months

Traction Under Stealth: Pre-launch with revenue, currently raising and cap table includes a16z and Kleiner Perkins scout funds, founders of WhatsApp, Hootsuite, CEO of Techstars and more.

Sarvesh Regmi - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Product Management at GetYourGuide, ex-Product Lead at Airbnb, ex-Sr. Product Manager, Prime Music at Amazon Music, Stanford MBA

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months

Maher A. Lahmar - Chief Executive Officer at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Chief Technology Officer at FACILIS.AI, ex-Head of Data Science at Google, ex-Head of Product, Watson Customer Engagement at IBM, ex-Director, Science Solutions, Global Tech at Walmart, ex-Sr. Manager, Data Science at Target

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months

Christine H. - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup

Building the verification layer for video <​world​> models.

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Research Scientist, Tech Lead at Microsoft AI, ex-Fellow at Linear Capital, ex-Machine Learning Scientist Intern at PayPal, Stanford alum

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months

Shivani Poddar - Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Engineering, Jules at Google, ex-Sr. Engineering Lead | Senior Staff AI Researcher at Google DeepMind, ex-Uber Tech Lead (Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence) at Facebook

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month

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Invite early-stage founders in your network to the $100k buyer pitch in SF on 4/16. There’s a panel of 6-7 C-levels/VPs from Gong.io, Superhuman (Grammarly), Okta, and more. 10 startups will be selected to give 2-minute demos, and the winner will receive a $100k cash prize. No joke. Here’s the link to share: https://luma.com/beelieve

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Google engineering lead who shipped Gemini and led Family Link enters stealth

• Serial founder with Glassdoor VP and BCG roots launches AI-native sales intelligence platform

• Wharton/UPenn engineer with Pave and Nerdwallet PM roles is building in sports tech

• Ex-Apple embedded engineer and Rilla SWE builds AI-powered async collaboration platform

• Ex-Glencoco CTO and Meta/Bridgewater/Verkada engineer builds enterprise internal tools platform

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Peter McEvoy - Co-Founder at Potluck

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Software Engineer at Rilla, ex-Co-Founder & CTO at Quick Vet Check, ex-Embedded Software Engineer at Apple, ex-Product/Engineering roles at Tlon

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Potluck is an AI-powered collaboration platform designed to help teams think better together, structuring async workflows to improve decision-making and reduce unproductive meetings.

HQ: New York, New York, United States

Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months

Dimi Kellari - Co-Founder & CEO at Neion Bio

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Co-Founder & Head of Product/Tech at Cavnue, ex-Product & Strategy at X (Moonshot Factory), ex-Investor at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, Advisor at SandboxAQ

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Neion Bio is building a next-gen biomanufacturing platform using genetic engineering and stem cells to produce complex therapeutics faster, cheaper, and at scale.

HQ: United States

Industry: Biotechnology Research | Team Size: 12

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 23 months

Jason Bao - Founder at Major

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Founder & CTO at Glencoco, ex-Founding Engineer at Zarta, ex-Sr. Software Engineer at Verkada, ex-Engineer at Meta & Bridgewater

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Major is building an enterprise platform for rapidly developing internal tools—securely connecting data, deploying apps instantly, and managing access out of the box.

HQ: United States

Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months

Bryan Wan - Founder at LessCAD

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-Co-Founder at Artemis Calendar, ex-PM at Google (Ads Measurement), ex-PM at Microsoft (Windows, Xbox Data), ex-Engineer at FanXchange

Connect on: LinkedIn

LessCAD is a browser-based CAD platform that integrates design and simulation, enabling faster iteration with built-in FEA, thermal analysis, and AI-assisted workflows.

HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months

Dave Curran - Co-Founder & CEO at Firmbase

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#223

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Ex-Co-Founder & CEO at Openvolt, ex-VP Product at Glassdoor, ex-Co-Founder & COO at Love Mondays (acquired), ex-Project Leader at BCG

Connect on: LinkedIn

Firmbase is an AI-native sales intelligence platform that helps reps identify and prioritize ideal customers using natural language inputs to generate targeted account lists and contacts.

HQ: Spain

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Manish Karney - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

Likely building in AI-powered consumer or family tech

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Engineering Lead at Google who shipped Gemini and led the Family Link product org. Managed multiple engineering teams across Google for 10+ years. Stanford GSB LEAD alumni; MS in Computer Science from Santa Clara University.

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Reuben Abraham - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth

Building in sports tech

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Co-founded Echo and held Sr. PM roles at Pave and NerdWallet, UPenn degree in CS (Engineering) and Management (Wharton)

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: New York, New York, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Max Ludwig Ahnen - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree

Prior Experience: ETH Zürich PhD in Physics, Co-Founder & CSO at Positrigo (brain PET imaging)

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Zurich, Switzerland

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Amir Mostafavi - Founder at Stealth AI Startup

Likely building in GenAI applications (ELU)

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Masters Degree

Prior Experience: Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead at Google (Google Home, Gemini for Home, YouTube); BS in Computer Science and MS in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Texas at Austin.

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Santa Clara, California, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Priyanshu Agarwal - Founder at Stealth Startup

Building an AI-powered platform that removes the friction to wellness - effectively turning intent into action.

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Meta, ex-Software Engineer at Microsoft and Paypal, ex-Software Developer at Epic

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Ex-Intel Neuromorphic and 2x CTO builds AI IDE for regulated sectors

• Serial founder behind a 2022 IPO and multiple exits returns with an AI-native contract platform combining analysis, eSignature, and workflow automation

• Former Google Research scientist with a CS PhD is building a new stealth startup

• Ex-Farmshelf CEO ($15M+ raised), with prior roles at Twitter and Pinterest, is back in stealth

• Klarna veterans launch an AI-native financial modeling startup

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Murat Isik - Founder & CEO at Noah Labs

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University, Prior Exit, Masters Degree, Doctorate Degree

Prior Experience: Ex-CTO at Type 1 Compute; ex-CTO of Chip Interfaces (post-seed exit); early ops at Intel Neuromorphic Research Lab.

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Noah Labs is building an AI-native IDE for government and highly regulated industries.

HQ: Palo Alto, California, United States

Industry: Govtech, Defensetech | Team Size: 4

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months

Andrawes Bahou - CEO and Founder at Compute Desk

🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#230

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-GPU Compute Infra at Meta, ex-Co-Founder & CTO at Universe Energy, ex-ML & accelerated computing at UBS and ETH Zurich, ASIC inference chip design experience

Connect on: LinkedIn

Compute Desk builds financial infrastructure to price, trade, and hedge compute as an asset class.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 7

Time Spent in Stealth Mode:

Kamil Pawlik - Co-Founder at ResearchTech

FounderDNA: Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Venture Partner at Erebor Capital; Board Member & former GM at Sterling Angels, repeat operator with COO roles at DefendEye and BrandPixel

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

ResearchTech builds risk intelligence infrastructure that automates evidence collection, detects inconsistencies, and produces audit-ready, source-traceable risk assessments.

HQ: Newark, Delaware, United States

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3.0

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months

Evan Rumpza - Co-Founder at Galdera Labs

Prior Experience: Senior Analytics Manager at Klarna, ex-Deloitte

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Co-Founders: Giovanni Casula (Ex-Analytics Manager, Group FP&A at Klarna), Mattia Scolari (Ex-Klarna, ex-BlackRock)

Galdera Labs builds financial modeling software designed for reasoning-driven analysis, enabling operators and AI agents to make faster, more informed decisions

HQ: Sweden

Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 4

Latest Funding: $1.7M Pre-Seed Round on 3/26/2026

Key Investors: J12 Ventures, Antler

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months

Allon Mason - Co-Founder & CEO at Signus

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Ex-Founder & CEO at UserWay (2022 IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange), Platin, XPlace (acquired), YouFig; ex-President at Level Access, early roles at SAP and Bloomberg

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Signus.ai is an AI-native contract platform combining agreement analysis, eSignature, and workflow automation in a single system

HQ: Israel

Industry: Technology, Information and Media | Team Size: 9

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 14 months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Andrew Shearer - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth

FounderDNA: Serial Founder

Prior Experience: Ex-CEO and Founder at Farmshelf (raised $15M+), ex-Business Intelligence and Account Manager at Twitter, ex-Partner Manager, Growth at Pinterest

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: New York, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months

Amogh Mishra - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-ML Engineer at Orca DB, ex-SupportLogic, ex-BNP Paribas, ex-Kenome (acq by Google), Columbia ML researcher/TA

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: New York, New York, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months

Seema Lakhani - Co-Founder and CEO at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Product Officer and GM of Wattpad ($650M exit)

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Canada

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 years

Sami Abu-El-Haija - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Research Scientist at Google Research, CS PhD from University of Southern California, ex-Software Engineer at Ooyala

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months

David Riche - Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Product Lead, Food & Beverage at Square, ex-Product Manager, Quickbooks Live at Intuit, ex-Strategy & Operations at LinkedIn, ex-Product Lead, Loyalty at Grubhub, Northwestern MBA

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.

🚀 We just launched a new newsletter — Company Launch Tracker.

We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.

Right now we’ve got 5 subscribers: my wife, my mom, and that high school buddy who won’t stop pitching me his app. Be smart like them and get in early 👇

Subscribe to Company Launch Tracker

We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.

What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.

If you want earlier access to everything, book some time with us to stay ahead.

In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:

• Forest Neurotech CTO with prior experience at Google[x] and Verily is back in stealth

• Repeat founder with deep trucking experience launches voice AI agents that source freight, negotiate rates, and run logistics ops

• PhD statistician, former Google researcher, and Harvard professor launches stealth startup

• Senior finance leader across top VC firms now builds an AI operating system for enterprise knowledge

• Staff ML engineer at Reddit who previously co-founded and exited Oterlu AI (acquired by Reddit) is back in stealth

• And more…

Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡

🕵️‍♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth

Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode

Ivan Tsybaev - Founder & CEO at Ten8

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-CEO at Careerist; ex-Founder/CEO of Trucker Path (trucking marketplace); ex-Advisor at Improvado; early ops at ExxonMobil

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Ten8 builds voice-AI agents that autonomously source freight, negotiate rates, and manage end-to-end logistics workflows for trucking companies.

HQ: San Francisco, California, United States

Industry: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage | Team Size: 10

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months

Andrew Sousa - Co-Founder and Director of Engineering at Enigma Aerospace

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode 130 weeks ago

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-Hardware Engineering Manager at American Robotics, ex-Hardware Engineer at Tulip Interfaces, ex-Graduate Teaching Assistant at University of Massachusetts Amherst, ex-Hardware Engineer at Apple

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Enigma Aerospace builds autonomous aircraft and logistics software to deliver critical supplies in contested or infrastructure-limited environments.

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing

Key Investors: Cybernetix Ventures, Valia Ventures

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 years 8 months

Brandon Saw - Founder & CEO at Hatsu Labs

🔎 Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#200

FounderDNA: Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Product at 100 Thieves, ex-New Products at AngelList, ex-Analyst at Bessemer Venture Partners, Wharton alum

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Hatsu Labs is an international game studio creating new player experiences.

HQ: United States

Industry: Mobile Gaming Apps

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 24 months

Amit S. - Founder at Datacline AI

FounderDNA: Technical Founder

Prior Experience: Ex-Engineering Manager at Delivery Hero, ex-Software Engineer at Zalando SE, ex-Lead Engineer at Capillary Technologies, ex-Senior Associate at Morgan Stanley, ex-Software Developer at Amdocs, ex-Software Engineer at Brillio

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Datacline provides a gateway for AI coding agents that tracks spend, usage, and ROI at the developer level, giving teams precise visibility into AI adoption and impact.

HQ: Germany

Industry: Software Development

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months

Marius Groke - Co-Founder at Mav9

Prior Experience: Ex-VP International Finance at General Catalyst, ex-CFO & Managing Director at La Famiglia VC, ex-Director Finance & Investment Management at innogy Ventures GmbH, ex-PwC Deutschland

Connect on: LinkedIn or Email

Mav9 is a stealth AI company building an operating system designed to help companies leverage their unique knowledge and intellectual property into long-term value.

HQ: Germany

Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 6

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months

🕵️‍♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth

Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode

Seth Neel - Co-Founder & Founding Researcher at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Research Scientist at Google, Assistant Professor at Harvard University, Co-founder & CTO at Welligence Energy Analytics, PhD in Statistics, University of Pennsylvania

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth: 2 months

Sebastian Nabrink - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit

Prior Experience: Ex-Staff ML Engineer at Reddit, ex-Co-founder at Oterlu AI (acquired by Reddit), ex-Tech Lead, Data Science at Stena Rederi, early AI/ML roles across Inteleon and Adfenix

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: Sweden

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month

CJ Enright - Founder at Stealth

FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG

Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Software Engineer at Ramp, ex-CTO & Founding Engineer at July, ex-Software Engineer at Apple, Lecturer at Purdue University

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: New York, New York, United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month

Will Biederman - Founder at Stealth Startup

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Co-founder & CTO at Forest Neurotech, ex-Health Sensor Research & Product Lead at Google / Verily, ex-R&D Engineer at Google[x], PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: United States

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months

Radhika Kapur - Founder at Stealth Venture

FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University

Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Product (India) at Apple, ex-Global Product Leader across Microsoft 365 & Surface at Microsoft, ex-Founder & CEO at Third Culture, MBA, Yale School of Management

Connect on: LinkedIn

HQ: India

Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month

Share Stealth Startup Spy

🚨Here’s the deal🚨This email has gotten too big. Exciting, but with more people following it, the edge diminishes. I’ve thought long and hard about what to do to preserve the value in the signals. I’m not sure about the final direction yet, but in the meantime I’ve been sending an email 48 hours earlier to a select group of paid subscribers. The feedback has been pretty positive so I’m going to open up the list for another 100 spots. To get signals early, Apply here!

Stay Stealthy,

Drake

Thank you for reading. If you liked it, share it with your friends, colleagues and everyone interested in staying ahead of the hidden developments in tech. Subscribe below and follow us on X / Twitter to never miss a company operating under stealth again.

Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.