Stealth Startup Spy #192
Former Google/Dropbox exec embarks on a stealth venture, Oxford PhD launches AI app to prevent disease, & Web3 startup exits stealth to tackle data standardization
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Product Lead for Google NotebookLM leaves to co-found a stealth startup
Former CTO of Limewire embarks on a stealth venture
Oxford PhD unveils AI-powered app for proactive medicine, aiming to prevent disease and extend healthspan
Former Director of Product (Applied AI) at Google begins building a new stealth company
Web3 metadata infrastructure company exits stealth to address challenges in Web3 discoverability and data standardization
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
Jonathan Knegtel - Co-Founder & CEO at The Grid
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Co Founder / Managing Director at Blockdata (Acquired by CBInsights), ex-Head of Growth at Dealroom.co
Connect on: LinkedIn
The Grid provides an open, independent, and auditable reference dataset that powers Web3 directories and platforms.
HQ: Netherlands
Industry: Blockchain Services | Team Size: 8
Co-founder: Jordan Hatcher (Ex-General Counsel and SVP Compliance at Staffbase)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
Amir Kavousian - Co-Founder & CEO at DevArmor
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Engineering at CoinList, ex-Co-Founder & CTO at Altitude Networks (acquired by CoinList), ex-Manager of Machine Learning at Capital One
Connect on: LinkedIn
DevArmor automates security design reviews, requirements generation, and enforcement throughout the development lifecycle.
HQ: United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Co-founder: Julian Mehnle (Ex-Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability at Google)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
Michael Zhou - Co-Founder & CEO at Promed AI
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Researcher at University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, ex-Machine Learning Engineer at Ford Motor Company
Connect on: LinkedIn
Promed AI is building AI doctors for planned primary care to provide proactive medicine for everyone
HQ: Canada
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care | Team Size: 1
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months
Debayan Saha - Co-Founder at Faraday Earth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Cofounder at PerSapien Innovations, Stanford & IIT Alumnus
Connect on: LinkedIn
Faraday Earth is a semi-stealth deeptech/hardware startup in the climate change industry.
HQ: India
Industry: Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 year 6 months
Stephane Remi - Founder & CTO at Atune AI
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: On Deck Fellow, ex-AI Infrastructure Engineer at XPENG, MS from Stanford
Connect on: LinkedIn or Twitter
Atune AI is building the LLM monitoring infrastructure for financial services.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Information Services | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Raiza Martin - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Lead for Google NotebookLM, Senior Product Manager at NewsON
Connect on: LinkedIn
Co-Founders: Jason Spielman (Sr. Interaction Designer, AI at Google Labs) , Stephen Hughes (Staff Software Engineer, NotebookLM at Google)
HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Greg Bildson - Founder, CTO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Principal Engineer at Automattic/Tumblr, ex-Co-Founder and CTO at Kanvas Labs (Acquired by AOL), ex-CTO at LimeWire
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Weiwei C. - Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Engineering at Turing Video, ex-Software Engineer at Snapchat, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Google, ex-Software Engineer at VMware
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Andrew Kim - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Engineering at Bonside, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, ex-Software Engineer at Stella.ai, ex-Solutions Software Developer at Avanade
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Tony Vincent - Founder & CPO at NewCo
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Director, Product (Applied AI) at Google, Founder & CEO at Aspen Designs (acquired by Google), Head of Product Design at Dropbox, Founder at Sold (acquired by Dropbox)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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