Stealth Startup Spy #159
Ex-Meta AI LLM lead co-founds a stealth startup, 'Vanta for manufacturing' startup to enter beta next month, & YC alum with Mastercard exit launches new stealth venture
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:
A collaborative platform for 3D product rendering and visualization goes live
YC alum with a prior exit to Mastercard is building something new in stealth mode
Former product lead at Etsy, Nerdwallet, and Eventbrite is now CEO of a parenting and baby tracking app
Serial founder with 10+ years of audit experience is building the "Vanta for manufacturing”
Ex-LLM lead at Meta AI is now co-founder and CTO of a 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
Amanda DeLuca - Founder, CEO at Riley
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Lead Product Manager at Good Inside, ex-Senior Product Manager at Etsy, ex-Product Manager at NerdWallet, ex-Growth Product Manager at Eventbrite, ex-Partner Manager - Google Ads Team at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
Riley is an all-in-one baby tracker with personalized, science-backed guidance for confident parenting.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Media | Team Size: 5
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 months
Frederick Weitendorf - Founder at Accretional
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Software Engineer at Google, ex-Software Engineer at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
Accretional aims to simplify software development using AI to take an idea from concept to deployment in under a minute.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 1
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Jesper Mosegaard - Founder & CEO at Figurement
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#141
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Development Graphics at The TMRW Foundation, ex-Senior Engineering Manager at CrowdStrike, ex-Head of Visualization & UX at Humio (acquired by CrowdStrike), ex-Director Of Products at Luxion (makers of KeyShot)
Connect on: LinkedIn
Figurement is a collaborative platform for 3D product rendering and visualization.
HQ: Denmark
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Piotr Kondrat - Founder & CEO at Gocie
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Manager, Strategy & Transformation Office at Pandora, ex-Manager at GEP Worldwide, ex-Accenture
Connect on: LinkedIn
Gocie aggregates user generated content from a large pool of sources to deliver actionable insights.
HQ: Seoul, South Korea
Industry: Business Intelligence Platforms | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Adam Sirois - Co-Founder & CEO at Purplefish
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Business Officer at Fractal Software, ex-Chief Revenue Officer at Wunderkind, ex-Co-Founder at Underground Eats
Connect on: LinkedIn
Purplefish is building enterprise-grade AI agents for high volume recruiting at large staffing agencies and corporations.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Co-Founder: Martin Kess (ex-Fractal Software, ex-Lyft, ex-Namely, ex-Google)
Key Investors: 8VC
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Milanjeet Singh - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: 10+ years of audit experience across 250+ assessments
Traction Under Stealth: Building Vanta for manufacturing, raising $500K pre-seed with half committed, currently ARR $60K.
HQ: Cupertino, California, United States
Industry: Regulatory & Compliance | Team Size: 7
Co-Founder: Vinodh P. (Ex-Intuitive, 15 years software development experience)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months with beta launch on 9/2/2024
Tony DiLoreto - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior AI Architect at Google (8 year-tenure), ex-Data Scientist at Annalect, ex-Adobe
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Inigo Rumayor - Founder at Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Co-Founder and former co-CEO at Arcus (YCS13, backed by Ignia, Citi Ventures, Softbank, Initialized Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Kapor Capital) - acquired by Mastercard in 2021
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Mexico | United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Joseph Tal - CEO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-SVP, General Manager of Trellix Advanced Research Centers, ex-CISO, Head of Citi’s Cyber Security Innovation Labs, ex-IBM Global Head
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Ross Taylor - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Research Engineer at Facebook AI, ex-Co-founder and CTO at Atlas ML (acquired by Facebook)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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