Stealth Startup Spy #184
Foursquare co-founder develops a 'Marauder's Map for AirPods,' YC alum raises $350K to launch a startup tackling addiction, & Ex-COO/co-founder of Catalyst embarks on a new stealth venture
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Ex-cofounder of Foursquare develops an app to stream location-based information directly to AirPods
Former Meta research scientist launches all-in-one platform to automate data-heavy financial tasks
Ex-COO and cofounder of Catalyst embarks on a new stealth project
Former Flexport and Shopify product leader co-founds a stealth startup
YC alum and former Head of Growth at Rupa Health raises $350K to launch a startup tackling addiction
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
Koby Conrad - Co-Founder at Sunflower
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Growth at Oneleet, ex-Head of Growth at Rupa Health, Co-Founder at Room Service (YCS19)
Connect on: LinkedIn or Twitter
Sunflower is building a tech product to combat addiction that reduces relapse rates.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Mental Health Care
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Traction Under Stealth: Raised $350K so far (twitter anoucement here)
Dennis Crowley - Co-Founder & CEO at Hopscotch Labs
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Co-Founder of Foursquare, Co-Founder of Street FC, Founder of Dodgeball, one of the first location-based mobile social services (acquired by Google in 2005)
Connect on: LinkedIn
Hopscotch Labs is developing a new app (BeeBot) that delivers location-based information directly to your AirPods.
HQ: New York, NY, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3
Latest Funding: Pre-seed round co-led by Alpaca and Lightspeed, with participation from Betaworks and Next Wave NYC.
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Benjamin Segal - Co-Founder & CEO at Matia
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Data at Pangaea, ex-VP Operations at Kolbo Gas
Connect on: LinkedIn
Matia is a data operations platform that streamlines data management through unified ingestion, reverse ETL, observability, and catalog.
HQ: Miami, Florida, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 16
Latest Funding: $10.5M Seed Round on 10/29/2024
Key Investors: Leaders Fund, Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners, Caffeinated Capital
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 25 months
Ahmed Medhat - Co-founder at Occam AI
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Research Scientist, Graph Learning at Meta, ex-Chief Data Scientist at DueDil
Connect on: LinkedIn
Occam is an all-in-one enterprise automation architect and operator purpose-built for automating data-heavy financial tasks.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 4
Co-founder: Mohamed Abdelbary (Ex-Monzo Bank staff engineer, ex-VP of Data at DueDil)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Jasjit Singh - Founder at Rockstar
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-VP & GM, Skills for Students at Chegg (NYSE: CHGG), ex-VP & GM at Thinkful, ex-Redfin, ex-Bridgewater
Connect on: LinkedIn
Rockstar blends human recruiters with GenAI to help small-to-midsize businesses hire professional talent for less than $1.5K per role.
HQ: Atlanta, GA, United States
Industry: Staffing and Recruiting | Team Size: 12
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 15 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Michael Guard - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Mode Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Product Management at Flexport, ex-Director of Product Management at Shopify, ex-Group Product Manager at Deliverr
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Kevin Chiu - Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Co-Founder & ex-Chief Operating Officer at Catalyst ($70M raised), ex-Head of Sales and Revenue Operations at DigitalOcean
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months
George Bofysil - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Data Engineering at Brex, ex-Product Analytics Lead at Ancestry, ex-Analytics Lead at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Adrian Fritsch - Technical Founder at Stealth Startup
Addressing the widespread mismanagement of gout in primary care.
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineering Manager at Teladoc Health, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Livongo, ex-Senior Data Engineer at Tango Me
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Neha Garg - Founder at Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Lead, Gemini at Google, ex-Group Product Manager at Udacity, ex-Monetization Lead at LinkedIn
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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