Stealth Startup Spy #197
Former OpenAI and Groq execs launch content classification platform, Ex-Waymo Via Head of Perception builds a robotics venture, & Ex-Head of Sustainability at DoorDash enters the climatetech space
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Former OpenAI Head of Trust & Safety and ex-Chief Product Officer at Groq launch an AI-driven content classification company
Ex-Head of Perception for Waymo Via builds something new in robotics
Former executives from Atlassian, Loom and Vimeo team up to launch a company focused on AI-powered data engineering
Ex-Head of Sustainability at DoorDash launches stealth startup in the energy space
Ex-VP of Engineering at Coinbase and former Head of Global Engineering at Google Pay 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
Buddy Marshburn - Co-Founder at Watchtower AI
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#167
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Data Engineering Manager at Atlassian, ex-Data at Loom, ex-Director of Data at True Botanicals, ex-Senior Data Scientist at InVision, ex-Data Science Engineer at Castlight Health
Connect on: LinkedIn
Watchtower is building an AI Data Engineer
HQ: United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 4
Co-founders: Andy Gale (Ex-VP of Finance & Operations at Loom) , Martin Suchanek (Ex-Principal Data Scientist at InVision, Matthew Shump (Head of Data Engineering, Analytics, Data Science at Vimeo)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Anish Bharadwaj - Co-Founder at KiwiQ AI
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: On Deck Fellow, ex-Director of Product at Swayable, ex-Product at Sounding Board, ex-Product Lead at Amazon
Connect on: LinkedIn
KiwiQ AI is building the intelligence layer for modern marketing teams.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Co-founder: Raunak B. (Ex-ML Lead at Google - Search Ranking, Gemini, Knowledge Graphs)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Sayoni Dutta Roy - Co-Founder & CEO at GenFuse AI
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Google, ex-Member Of Technical Staff at Adobe
Connect on: LinkedIn
GenFuse AI aims to become the easiest, most user-friendly platform for creating AI agent automations.
HQ: India
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Co-Founder: Kshitiz Kumar (Ex-Google, Adobe, HP)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Ben Gad - Co-Founder at Scroll
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of UX at BigPanda
Connect on: LinkedIn
Scroll is building AI-powered tools for reporters, researchers and analysts.
HQ: Tel Aviv District, Israel
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 year 6 months
Samidh Chakrabarti - Co-founder at Zentropi
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Product Officer at Groq, ex-Product Management Director at Facebook, ex-Product Management Lead - Civic Innovation and Google [X] at Google, ex-McKinsey
Connect on: LinkedIn
Zentropi is a company specializing in advanced AI-driven content classification.
HQ: United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Co-founder: Dave Willner (Ex-Head of Trust and Safety at OpenAI)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 year 4 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Kevin Peterson - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth
Building something new in robotics
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Perception for Waymo Via at Waymo, ex-Autonomy Architect at Caterpillar, ex-Co-Founder and CEO at Marble (acquired by Caterpillar)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Shikhar Mishra - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Engineering at MainStreet, ex-CEO (Chip Ecom Platform) at Scalable, Cofounder at Simppler (acquired), ex-Engineering at Eventbrite
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Dante Malagrinò - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Product & Technology Officer at Protegrity, ex-Chief Development Officer at Riverbed Technology, ex-VP of Engineering at Cisco, UC Berkeley alum
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Palo Alto, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Victor Shao - Founder at Stealth
Building something new in climate space.
FounderDNA: Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Sustainability at DoorDash, ex-Program Manager at Amazon
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Pankaj Gupta - Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Engineering at Coinbase, ex-Head of Global Engineering for Google Pay, ex-Sr Staff ML Engineer at Twitter, Founder of Halli Labs / Agara Labs (acquired by Coinbase)
Connect on: LinkedIn or Twitter
HQ: Palo Alto, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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