Stealth Startup Spy #137 - Y Combinator S24
Former pet insurance founders now help insurers with claims, UT Austin team joins YC for robotics, & Ex-Goldman Sachs & Tesla engineer builds stealth startup backed by Soma Capital
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:
Founding researcher/engineer at AssemblyAI is building something in Physics x ML
Former pet insurance founders build a platform to help insurers outsource claims operations
Palo Alto Networks/Adobe alumni debut secure browser for Gen AI applications
UT Austin crew pivoted, open-sourced their previous startup, and now joined YC to build tools for robotics
Ex-Goldman Sachs and Tesla engineer is building a stealth startup backed by Y Combinator and Soma Capital
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
Pavel Gertsberg - Co-Founder & CEO at ClaimSorted
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: CEO & Co-Founder at Fluffy ($450K raised), ex-Growth Lead at Wondr Medical, ex-Head of Growth at Disciple, ex-Head of Growth Marketing & Sales at Bookmemate, ex-Growth Manager at AMPP Group
Connect on: LinkedIn
ClaimSorted helps insurance companies remove the hassle of managing claims by outsourcing their entire claims operations.
Co-Founders: German Mikulski
HQ: New York, United States
Industry: Financial Services | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Rajaram Srinivasan - Co-Founder & CEO at Unbound Security
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#93
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Line Manager at Palo Alto Networks, ex-Senior Product Manager at Imperva, MIT alum, ex-Software Development Engineer at Adobe
Connect on: LinkedIn
Unbound Security is building a secure browsing co-pilot for the modern enterprise.
Co-Founders: Vignesh Subbiah
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Nilay Modi - Co-Founder at Central
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Co-Founder + Designer at Clayboard (YCW20)
Connect on: LinkedIn
Central is payroll & health insurance automation platform.
Co-Founders: Josh Wymer, Pranav Kashyap
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 17 months
Austin Wang - Co-Founder at Manaflow
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer Intern at Google, ex-Software Developer Intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Connect on: LinkedIn
Manaflow makes it easy for operation managers to automate recurring workflows that require analyzing data and taking actions.
Co-Founders: Lawrence Chen, Wesley Tjangnaka
HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Will Bodewes - Co-Founder & CEO at Phonely
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree
Prior Experience: Researcher, PHD Student at University of Melbourne, ex-Founder & CEO at Spoke Sound, ex-Teaching Assistant at University of New Hampshire
Connect on: LinkedIn
Phonely lets businesses connect to their scheduling software, route calls, or answer customer support questions from a knowledge base just like a human.
Co-Founders: Nisal Ranasinghe
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Administrative and Support Services | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 10 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Ritvik Pandey - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Goldman Sachs, ex-Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla, ex-Math Instructor at Georgia Institute of Technology, ex-Researcher at Laboratory for Intelligent Decision and Autonomous Robots (LIDAR Lab)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Ahmed Kerwan - Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Knox Fellow at Harvard University, Ex-Medical Doctor at NHS, Ex-Clinical Supervisor at the University of Cambridge, Ex-Head of Partnerships at Scoodle
Connect on: LinkedIn
Building something new in the AI space
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Ben Warren - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Census, ex-Software Engineer at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Michael Nguyen - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Lead AI Researcher at AssemblyAI, ex-Machine Learning Engineer at Mycroft AI - (500 Startups Batch 20), ex-Co-Founder at Lean Start Lab
Connect on: LinkedIn or Twitter
Building something in Physics x ML
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Armel Talla - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Co-Founder at Clips AI, ex-Software Engineer at Google, ex-Software Engineer at YouTube
Connect on: LinkedIn
Co-Founders: Benjamin Smidt , Vedant Nair
Building Tools for Robotics
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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