Stealth Startup Spy #185
Sequoia and Harvard alum launches AI agent for business intelligence, Ex-PayPal and eBay tech leader builds stealth AI platform for fintechs and banks, & GitHub alum/Tailscale CPO goes incognito
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-GitHub product leader and Tailscale CPO launches a stealth startup
Former Sequoia investor and Harvard MBA builds an AI agent empowering business intelligence
Ex-PayPal and eBay engineering leader founds a stealth AI platform for fintechs & banks
Former Rocket Internet venture developer launches a B2B construction fintech company
After nearly a decade at Spotify, former ML engineer embarks on a stealth venture
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
Andrew Kyprianides - Founder at Charles
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-General Manager - UK at Sundayapp, ex-Program Manager, Sustainability at Amazon, ex-Central Operations, New Mobility at Uber
Connect on: LinkedIn
Charles is the AI-powered discounting strategy platform built for e-commerce.
HQ: London Area, United Kingdom
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Co-Founder: Niki Issaia (Ex-Goldman Sachs, ex-Bank of America Merrill Lynch)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 23 months
Pallavi Chakravorty - Co-Founder at Anko AI
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Manager Intern at Bolt, ex-Growth tech investor with Sequoia Capital, ex-BCG, Harvard MBA
Connect on: LinkedIn
Anko AI is building an AI agent for the modern data stack for automated business analysis.
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 5
Co-Founders: Swapnil Basak (ex-FalconX, former Accel investment team), Nipun Gupta (ex-ThoughtSpot)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 17 months
Teo Borschberg - Co-Founder & CEO at Ogment
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of OTO at Unity Technologies, ex-Co-Founder and CEO at OTO.ai (acquired by Unity)
Connect on: LinkedIn
Ogment is building AI-Powered Employees specialised for HR.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 7
Co-Founder: Nico Perony (ex-Director of AI Research at Unity, featured in SSS#156 ), Amaury Soviche (ex-Co-Founder and Chief Product & Chief Technology Officer at MetaMap)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Vasilis Ilias - Co-Founder & CEO at Copay
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Launch and Expansion Lead at Cosuno, ex-Global Venture Developer at Rocket Internet SE, ex-Investment Banking at NIBC Bank
Connect on: LinkedIn
Copay is accelerating cashflow for the construction industry.
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 23 months
Stephen Roland - Co-Founder at Dev-Docs
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Startup Partner Lead at Stripe, ex-Mentor at Techstars
Connect on: LinkedIn
Dev-docs integrates documentation into developers existing workflows, so writing, maintaining, and finding documentation is effortless.
HQ: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 14 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Maya Kaczorowski - Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Product Officer at Tailscale ($115M raised), ex-Senior Director, Product Management, Software Supply Chain Security at GitHub, ex-Product Manager, Container security at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Praveen Mamidi - Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup
Building revolutionary AI platform for Fintechs & Banks
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-VP, Software Engineering at Synapse, ex-Software Engineering Leader at PayPal, ex-Software engineering at eBay
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Cyril Nader - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Product & Systems Engineering Manager at Dexterity, ex-Research Engineer at UCLA, ex-NASA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Palo Alto, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Fabio Giannese - Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Technical Founding Partner at Dedalo AI, Berkeley SkyDeck alum, ex-Chief Technology Officer at iLMeteo, Bakeca.it, Skuola.net (Skuola Network)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Ian Anderson - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify (9 years), ex-Graduate Research Assistant at Johns Hopkins University
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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