Stealth Startup Spy #151
Ex-Palantir team joins Y Combinator to enhance engineering teams' log quality, ex-Goldman Sachs exec co-founds AI fintech startup, & MIT alum/ex-Amgen Director pivots to healthcare developer tools
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-President of Overstock.com is now CEO of a stealth startup
Ex-Palantir employees join Y Combinator to help engineering teams tackle log quality at the source
Stanford PhD and former Goldman Sachs exec co-founds a startup in the AI and Financial Services space
Co-founder and former CEO of Felix Gray is building something new in stealth mode
3x MIT alum and former data science executive at Amgen pivots from developing a mental health app to creating tools for healthcare developers
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
Aaron LaRue - Co-Founder at Deferred
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-CTO at EasyKnock, ex-Co-Founder of Balance (acquired by EasyKnock), ex-Product at Zillow, ex-Director of Product Management at SoFi
Connect on: LinkedIn
Deferred helps real estate owners compound their investments tax-free forever with the first online 1031 Exchange platform.
HQ: United States
Industry: Financial Services | Team Size: 3
Co-Founders: Alexander Farrill (ex-Opendoor) , Judd Schoenholtz (ex-Opendoor)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Juan Perez - Co-Founder & CTO at Sharely.ai
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#58
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Principal Lead Product Manager at Microsoft (15-year tenure)
Connect on: LinkedIn
Sharely.ai helps businesses guide and qualify leads through personalized, interactive customer journeys through the use of AI agents
HQ: United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
Michael Nguyen - Co-Founder at DigitalCarbon
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#137
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Lead AI Researcher at AssemblyAI, ex-Machine Learning Engineer at Mycroft AI - (500 Startups Batch 20)
Connect on: LinkedIn or Twitter
DigitalCarbon aims to accelerate hard tech innovation by developing foundation models for instant engineering simulations.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Engineering Services | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Benjamin Hall - Co-Founder & CEO at Patchwork
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Account Strategist - Utilities at Palantir Technologies, ex-Principal Engineer at Oxford Flow, University of Oxford PhD
Connect on: LinkedIn
Patchwork automatically enhances log quality to minimize downtime when product outages strike.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3
Co-Founders: Samuel Kramer (ex-Palantir) , Alex Maass (ex-Palantir)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Kerry Weinberg - Co-Founder & CEO at PhenoML
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#93
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-VP Data at League, ex-Director Data Sciences at Amgen
Connect on: LinkedIn
PhenoML is empowering healthcare technology teams to build customizable cross-platform apps.
HQ: United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
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
Danielle Davidian - Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Vice President, Engineering at Happy Money, ex-Vice President, Data Science at Goldman Sachs, Stanford PhD
Connect on: LinkedIn
Building a startup in AI + Financial Services. Backed by Village Global (Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman), Cooley, 10VC, and angels.
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
David Roger - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Cofounder & CEO at Felix Gray
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Kala Nicholson - Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-SVP, Marketing & Consumer Growth at Flex, ex-Head of Marketing at Amazon, ex-Consumer Insights Manager at The Marketing Store
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Florent Ferere - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Lead, Mobile Applications at WeWork, ex-Co-Founder at Welkio (acquired by WeWork) , ex-Head of Innovation at Hathway
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Saum Noursalehi - Chief Executive Officer at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-CEO at tZERO Group, ex-President at Overstock.com
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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