Stealth Startup Spy #241
DeepMind scientist goes stealth, Ex-Dropbox PM builds synthetic human personas, & Ex-Mercury ML lead launches AI analyst to fight fraud and improve margins in real-time.
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Former DeepMind research scientist with Georgia Tech PhD enters stealth
Ex-Dropbox/Facebook product leader launches AI that models synthetic human users
Ex-Mercury & Stripe ML expert builds an AI analyst to fight fraud & boost margins
Ex-Datadog and Microsoft PM building AI agent to augment lobbyists and public policy teams
Ex-COO of Shield AI and former Marine goes stealth after career in defense and ops
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
Krishna Namasivayam - Founder & CEO at Featurely AI
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy #145
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Product Management at Dropbox, ex-Product Mentor at Clicked, ex-Product Lead at Facebook, ex-PwC, ex-NVIDIA
Connect on: LinkedIn
Featurely’s proprietary technology combines advanced cognitive modeling with transformer-based AI to create synthetic user personas that think and behave like real humans.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 4
Key Investors: Bling Capital, Neon Ventures
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months
Meghan Scanlon - Co-Founder & CEO at Aleoop
Prior Experience: Ex-Account Executive at Stripe, ex-Managing Director, Enterprise at General Assembly, ex-B2B Project Manager at Zipcar
Connect on: LinkedIn
Aleoop captures unstructured feedback from CRMs, Slack, and notetaker transcripts, then uses AI to surface patterns and tie them to revenue.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 18 months
Mumtahin Monzoor - Co-Founder & CTO at Canonical Labs
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Data Scientist - Machine Learning at Mercury, ex-Software Engineer at Stripe, ex-Computer Science Research Fellow at Google, ex-Senior Data Scientist, Fraud Analytics at Interac
Connect on: LinkedIn
Canonical Labs is building an AI risk analyst fighting fraud and improving margins 24/7.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Financial Services | Team Size: 2
Co-Founder: Mykhailo I. (Ex-Data Scientist at Stripe)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 months
Brandon Smith - Co-Founder & CTO at Helios
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy#219
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Product at Datadog, ex-Product Management at Microsoft, ex-Software Engineer at UNH InterOperability Lab
Connect on: LinkedIn
Helios is building Proxi, the first AI-native policy agent designed to work like a top-tier policy professional embedded on your team.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Sergey Kirshner - Co-Founder and CTO at Fantastic Voyage Labs
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Scientist at Carnegie Learning, ex-Senior Applied Scientist, Search at Amazon, ex-Engineer and Scientist, Marketplace Search at Facebook, ex-Director of Modeling/Principal Architect, Walmart Advertising Platform at WalmartLabs
Connect on: LinkedIn
Fantastic Voyage Labs is building a virtual reality (VR) learning platform to reimagine the training paradigm for careers requiring precise, hands-on expertise.
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Industry: Education | Team Size: 8
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 17 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Jonathan Scholz - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, Georgia Tech PhD in Computer Science
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: London Area, United Kingdom
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Tito Unda - Co-Founder at Stealth Mode Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Product at Job&Talent, ex-Co-founder & CEO at Gonway
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Madrid, Spain
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Gil Golan - Co-Founder at Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Technology Officer, VP- GM Global Research & Development, President - GM Ventures at General Motors (24-year tenure)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Michigan, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 year 6 months
Harini Kannan - Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-AI Research at Google DeepMind, MIT Computer Science
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 years 10 months
Andrew Dimitruk - CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-COO at Shield AI, ex-US Marine Corps, McKinsey alum
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
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