Stealth Startup Spy #246
Fitness founder teams up with ex-Genesys & Kroger Health to build AI health agents, Niantic & Databricks alums launch AI infra startup, and Unity’s ex-AI SVP unveils storytelling tools for creators
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Former fitness founder teams up with ex-Genesys & Kroger Health leads to build AI agents for diabetes, weight loss & fitness
Former Marine Innovation Lab head and ex-Shield AI exec builds AI-native software for defense manufacturing ops
Ex-Niantic Director of Engineering and Databricks Staff ML Engineer launch AI infrastructure startup to automate incident response
Unity’s former SVP of AI and Innovation builds emotional storytelling tools for digital creators
Ex-Global Head of Generative AI at AWS (Amazon Q Business) starts new 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
Miguel Johns - Founder & CEO at milton
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Founder of KingFit Preventative Health & Performance, Ex-strength and conditioning coach at Indiana State University, notable speaker at Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists, Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics, DiabetesMine
Milton provides AI agents for Diabetes, Weight Loss & Fitness. (think Loveable meets Magic School AI for healthcare and fitness).
HQ: Remote, United States
Industry: Artificial Intelligence | Team Size: 9
Key Team Members: Srinivas Palthepu, CTO (Head of Data/ML Engineering at Genesys, Ex- Director, ML/AI Engineering at PatientPoint, PhD and 9 patents), Sanjay Kumar, Engineering (Engineering Lead at Kroger Health), John Elliott (Head of Sales at MDClone, Ex-VP of Digital Growth at D2 Solutions, Ex-VP of Sales at Carevive)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 18 months
Traction Under Stealth: Built an MVP with 1,320 users enrolled and over 240k messages exchanged.
Vijay Manohar - Co-Founder at Light Labs
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-GTM Advisor at Verkada, ex-Head of Enterprise Growth Marketing at Samsara, ex-Growth Product Manager at Salesforce, ex-Goldman Sachs
Connect on: LinkedIn
Light Labs is building a modern testing lab and software platform designed to give brands clear, reliable, and actionable insights into their products' purity and nutritional integrity.
HQ: Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, United States
Industry: Consumer Services | Team Size: 15
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 18 months
Anhang Zhu - Co-Founder & CEO at TierZero
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode 11 months ago
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Engineering at Niantic, ex-CTO & Co-founder at Mayhem.gg (acquired by Niantic.), ex-Software Engineer at Facebook
Connect on: LinkedIn
TierZero is an AI Infrastructure Engineer that automates alert response, eliminates toil, and reduces resolution time.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Co-Founder: Yun Park (Ex-Staff Software Engineer, ML at Databricks)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 18 months
Sylvio Drouin - Co-Founder & CEO at Nura Studios
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartupSpy #222
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Vice President Innovation and AI at Unity, Board Member at UCLA - Technology Development Group
Connect on: LinkedIn
Nura is building AI augmented tools for creators to bring real emotional stories to life.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Himanshu Khurana - Co-Founder and CEO at Neeva AI
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode 15 months ago
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director/Head of Engineering , LinkedIn Premium at LinkedIn, ex-Engineering Manager, Workdocs at Amazon Web Services
Connect on: LinkedIn
Neeva.ai is building the next-gen product development operating system, powered by agents.
HQ: United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Jim Carlson - Founder at Stealth Startup
Building AI-native enterprise software to solve critical operational challenges in defense manufacturing.
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Director, Innovation Laboratory at Marine Innovation Unit at United States Marine Corps, ex-Chief Legal and Information Officer at Shield AI, ex-Founder / CTO at DFL Technology (acquired by Reveal Technology)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Diego, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Asheesh Mangla - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Global Head, Generative AI (Amazon Q Business) at Amazon Web Services (AWS), ex-Regional Vice President at Lucidworks, ex-VP at Manthan, ex-VP, Sales and Business Development - Big Data at Impetus
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Chetan Kemkar - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Data & AI Platform at The Michaels Companies, ex-Director of Data Science & Engineering (MLOps) at CGI, ex-Sr. Manager Data Science at PetSmart, ex-Principal Data Scientist at GoDaddy, ex-Senior Data Scientist at American Express, ex-Researcher (Machine Learning & Data Analytics) at Google, ex-Postdoctoral Research Associate at NASA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Andrew Reid - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Technology Officer at Iovate, ex-EVP Data & Intelligence Products at Weber Shandwick, ex-VP, Social at comScore, ex-Co-Founder, CTO at SponsorHub (Acquired by comScore)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: New York, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Nav Vasudevan - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Engineering, Blink & Amazon Sidewalk at Ring, ex-Director, Kuiper - Software & Network Services at Amazon, ex-Director of Software and Applied Science (Biometrics) at Amazon Halo at Amazon, ex-Tech PM, VR at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
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