Stealth Startup Spy #225
Ex-Ripple & Metaco execs ($250M exit) launch enterprise AI platform, YC-backed startup automates chip design with physics-informed AI, & "Figma for 3D" platform goes live
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Ex-Ripple & Metaco ($250M exit) execs launch an AI platform to eliminate enterprise knowledge bottlenecks
Palantir & Two Sigma alum builds AI-native workspace to unify thinking and writing
YC-backed startup automates chip design with physics-informed AI models (founder background: Cornell, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, Amazon, Apple and Nvidia)
Former Pinterest ML engineers turn long-form content into actionable insights with AI
"Figma for 3D" platform goes live - turning sketches into 3D assets instantly
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
Adrien Treccani - Founder and CEO at Supervised
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#173
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-SVP Product at Ripple, ex-Founder and CEO at Metaco (acquired by Ripple for $250M)
Connect on: LinkedIn
Supervised is an enterprise AI platform that eliminates information bottlenecks by orchestrating knowledge flow across large organizations.
HQ: Zug, Switzerland
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 6
Co-Founder: Seamus Donoghue (Ex-VP of Growth at Ripple, ex-Chief Growth Officer at Metaco)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Bruno Marnette - Co-Founder & CEO at Thoughtly
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-CTO & Head of Product at AI Objectives Institute, ex-Software Engineering Manager at Two Sigma, ex-Engineering Manager at Facebook, ex-Palantir, Oxford PhD
Connect on: LinkedIn
Thoughtly is an AI-native tool that enables users to think and write in one unified space.
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Cathy Yang - Co-Founder & CTO at BeFreed
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest, ex-Research Assistant at Columbia University, ex-Data Scientist at Zurich North America
Connect on: LinkedIn
Befreed is an AI-powered platform that transforms long-form content into bite-sized, actionable insights, making knowledge consumption faster, smarter, and more engaging.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3
Co-Founder: Jisong L. (Ex-Googler, Former ML at Pinterest)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Remi Kaito - Co-Founder at Arcade AI
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Co-Founder at Jumpr, Co-Founder at Zest (acquired)
Connect on: LinkedIn
Arcade is Figma for 3D. Instantly turn sketches and prompts into beautiful 3D assets.
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Software Development
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
William Salcedo - Co-Founder & CEO at Partcl
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Research Assistant at Stanford University, ex-NVIDIA, ex-Amazon
Connect on: LinkedIn
Partcl (YCX25) is bringing chip design automation into the 21st century with physics-informed models accelerated using GPUs.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Co-Founder: Vamshi Balanag (ex-Apple, UC Berkeley Physics undergrad)
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
Sharat Shroff - Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Former FAANG, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Former GM of Microsoft Search and Intelligence, previously leading Bing Platforms. Ex-Director at Amazon, where he launched Alexa for Business in 2017. Former Google leader, overseeing Google App Engine, Google Cloud Mail, Cloud Tasks and Cloud Functions products.
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Eric Rowell - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
Building AI agents and voice.
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Founder & CEO at Second (YC W23) , ex-Co-founder & CTO at Uiflow (YC W21, acquired in 2023), ex-Head of Data Visualization at Workday
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Phil Mullan - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief AI Officer at Unmind, ex-VP of Engineering at Tractable, ex-Head of Engineering at Huddle,
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: London Area, United Kingdom
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
James Plagianis - Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of AI, Automation, & Data Science at McKesson, ex-Analytics & Automation Manager at Lockheed Martin, ex-Director, Automation and Control Systems at Pulsar Energy
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Linghua Jin - Cofounder & CEO at Stealth
Building something new in the AI infra space.
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Software Engineer, Tech lead at Google, ex-Senior Software Engineer at WalmartLabs, Pear VC Fellow
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
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