Stealth Startup Spy #145
Harvard MBA unveils AI-powered healthcare payments platform, AI brand strategy and management platform goes live, & Seasoned leader from Meta, Dropbox, Nvidia founds stealth startup
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:
Ex-CTO at Attentive and former VP of Product Engineering at GitHub is building something new in stealth mode
Seasoned product leader from Meta, Dropbox and Nvidia is founding a stealth startup
An AI-powered brand strategy and management platform goes live
Harvard MBA and Stripe/JP Morgan/UBS alum unveils AI-powered healthcare payments platform
Ex-IBM, Amazon, HP executive is co-founding an AI stealth 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
Xavier de Gracia - Co-Founder at Prosper
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#47
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-VP, General Manager at Angi, ex-VP, General Manager, High Skill Services Business at Handy HQ, Harvard MBA, ex-Bain
Connect on: LinkedIn
Prosper is a platform that generates support articles on autopilot.
HQ: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Co-Founder: Josep Marc Mingot Hidalgo
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 15 months
Itamar Perlov - Founder & CEO at Ecton
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#109
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Global Partnerships at Stripe, ex-Product Strategy at Melio, ex-Head of Goals & Financial Management - Chase Digital Products at JPMorgan Chase & Co, ex-Product Manager, Investments at UBS
Connect on: LinkedIn
Ecton is a patient-provider healthcare payments platform, powered by AI.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Financial Services | Team Size: 6
Co-Founder: Gil Mahler
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 10 months
Hans Magnus Inderberg - Co-Founder & CTO at Soolv
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#124
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Engineering, Autodesk Forma at Autodesk, ex-Head of Engineering at Spacemaker AI, ex-Head of Intrapreneurship at Bekk
Connect on: LinkedIn
Soolv is a digital worker that helps users execute any business improvement from start to finish.
HQ: Oslo, Norway
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3
Co-Founders: Fredrik Schjoldager , Christina Kjær Seime
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Justin Liu - Co-Founder & CEO at Limo Health
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#38
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Product, Growth at Rockset, ex-Software Engineer at Google, ex-Founder, President at Valley Consulting Group, ex-Software Engineer at Bitwage
Connect on: LinkedIn
Limo performs a pre-bill review of every chart to capture every revenue and quality opportunity.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care | Team Size: 8
Co-Founders: Scott Morris
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 18 months
Chelsey Susin Kantor - Founder at Brand.AI
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Global Director of Marcom | VR (Meta Quest) at Meta, ex-Executive Creative & Strategy Director at Deeplocal, ex-Senior Brand & Creative Strategist, Global Brand Studio at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
Brand.AI is an AI powered brand strategy and management platform.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 5
Co-Founders: Nate Bosshard , Michael Carter
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 13 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Krishna Namasivayam - Founder at Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Product Management at Dropbox, ex-Product Mentor at Clicked, ex-Product Lead, Integrity at Facebook, ex-Management Consultant at PwC, ex-Product Lead at NVIDIA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Todd Berman - Founder at Something New
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-CTO at Attentive, ex-CTO / Founder at Braid, ex-CEO / Founder at EveryTeam, ex-VP of Product Engineering at GitHub, ex-VP of Technology, Digital Media at National Football League (NFL)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Matt Ellis - Founder at AI Startup in Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Product Officer and SVP Engineering at Sanctuary AI, ex-SVP, Global Head of Software, Data & AI Platforms at HP, ex-CTO, Strategy at Samsung Electronics America, ex-Vice President, Research & Development at HERE Technologies, ex-Vice President, Technology at Amazon, ex-Vice President, R&D, IBM Watson at IBM
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Varun Kapoor - Chief Executive Officer at Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Director Of Engineering, India at Getir, ex-Chief Technology Officer at Blok (acquired by Getir), ex-Chief Executive Officer at Tellephant (acquired by GoKwik), ex-Chief Executive Officer at OODI Design
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Washington DC-Baltimore Area, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 13 months
Nicholas Leonard - CEO & Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-SVP, People and Operations at Posh Technologies, ex-Director of Product at Jobcase, ex-Director, Content Strategy at 2U (NASDAQ: $TWOU)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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