Stealth Startup Spy #111
Meta AI ex-Director launches startup democratizing video creation with genAI, Ex-Google DeepMind crafts AI tech for personal shopping, & BI platform uniting enterprise external engagement goes live
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 track billions of data points to help you identify tomorrow's opportunities that are currently hiding in the shadows. These signals include tracking the inflows and outflows of talent who work at “Stealth Startups”, bios and profile changes to “building something new” and monitoring press releases to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.
In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Business intelligence platform that unifies enterprise's external engagement strategy goes live
Ex-academic co-founders launch a gene sequencing company spun out from the University of Oxford
Ex-Director at Meta AI unveils semi-stealth startup democratizing video creation with genAI
Ex-Product at Google DeepMind is crafting an AI tech stack designed for personal shopping
Ex-Head of Legal and Compliance at Capchase and Senior Legal Counsel at Paypal is building something new in the compliance and operations space.
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
Nick Mathers - Founder & CEO at Nucla
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Acquisitions and Partnerships Team at Sharp (exposure to internal corporate innovation challenges), COO and Board Member at KITE Scouting (Focused on Fortune 1000 innovation strategy)
Connect on: LinkedIn or direct at nick@nucla.com
Nucla is a business intelligence platform that unifies enterprise's external engagement strategy.
HQ: Denver, Colorado
Industry: Enteprise SaaS | Team Size: 5
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Adam Cribbs - Co-Founder & CTO at Caeruleus Genomics
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Associate Professor (Computational Biology Lead) at the University of Oxford
Connect on: LinkedIn | Twitter
Caeruleus Genomics has developed a proprietary discovery platform to profile cell populations multimodally and with unprecedented accuracy.
HQ: Oxford, United Kingdom
Industry: Biotechnology Research | Team Size: 7
Latest Funding: $1.2M Seed Round on 1/2/2023
Key Investors: Creator Fund
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 15 months
Tamara Berg - Founder at AIAIO
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#50
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Meta AI at Meta, ex-Associate Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ex-Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research
Connect on: LinkedIn
AIAIO is democratizing video creation with genAI.
HQ: United States
Industry: Mobile Computing Software Products | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
Zubair Ahsan - Co-Founder & CEO at Morpheus AI
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-CEO & Co-Founder at Think AI, ex-Head of Industrialization, North America at Capgemini, ex-CEO & Co-Founder at SanoBio Therapeutics, ex-Researcher at University of Michigan
Connect on: LinkedIn | Twitter
Morpheus is building the World's most intuitive, integrated & intelligent commerce platform.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 6
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 years 10 months
Eduardo Candela - Co-Founder & CTO at MAIHEM
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#96
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Co-founder & CTO at Magno Motors, ex-Data Scientist at Bosch, ex-Research Associate at Harvard University, ex-Program Manager at Tesla, ex-Research Assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Connect on: LinkedIn
MAIHEM creates AI agents that continuously test your conversational AI applications
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Data Infrastructure and Analytics | 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
Ayush Chordia - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Data Search at Cruise, ex-Head of Webex Assistant Engineering at Cisco, ex-Director of Engineering & Applied Research at Voicea (acquired by Cisco), ex-Co-Founder & CTO at Wrappup (acquired by Voicea)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Michael Woo - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Ops Scalability at Scale AI, ex-Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company, ex-Summer Analyst at Tudor Investment Corporation, ex-Teaching Assistant at Harvard University, ex-Business Strategy Intern at CrashPad
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Building something new in AI
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Marc Anthony Apicella - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Product at Google DeepMind, ex-Product and Design Lead at Alife Health, ex-Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, ex-Product at Cera, ex-Research Assistant at Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Connect on: LinkedIn | Twitter
HQ: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Building the LLM+RAG stack for personal shopping
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Jeff Silver - Co-Founder at Startup
FounderDNA: Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Legal and Compliance at Capchase, ex-Senior Legal Counsel at PayPal, ex-Associate at Kirkland & Ellis, ex-Investor Solutions Director at Lending Club
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Building something in the compliance and operations space.
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Boone Adkins - Co-Founder at Stealth Mode AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Robot Software Architect at Orangewood Labs (YC W18), ex-Sr Roboticist at Vicarious, ex-Sr Robotics Software Engineer at AMP Robotics, ex-Robotics Software Engineer and AI Engineer at Carbon Robotics, ex-Robotics Software Engineer at SRI International
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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