Stealth Startup Spy #254
Kettle founder ($30M raised) returns with an AI insurance broker, UPenn robotics alum (ex-Rivian/Amazon) goes stealth, and THE YES co-founder teams up with ex-Google PM to launch an AI analyst
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Kettle founder ($30M raised) returns with AI insurance broker that rewards risk reduction with real savings
THE YES co-founder (acquired by Pinterest) teams up with a Google PM veteran to launch an AI analyst for business teams
UPenn Robotics PhD and ex-Amazon/Rivian autonomy engineer embarks on a stealth venture
Former Vaquero Space and Apollo Fusion engineers launch AI agents for defense manufacturing
JLL’s former Head of AI launches stealth venture reimagining real estate with AI
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
Andrew Engler - Founder & CEO at RockRose
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode 48 weeks ago
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder (Machine Learning)
Prior Experience: Co-Founder and CEO at Kettle ($30M raised), Co-founder/Board at Airlast, ex-VP, Digital Product and Machine Learning at Argo Group, ex-Head of Commercial Operations AZ at Allstate
RockRose is an agentic AI insurance broker that rewards policyholders with major discounts for taking proactive steps to mitigate risk.
HQ: California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
Traction Under Stealth: Soft launched in April now raising seed off strong metrics (10x MoM growth, 15+ carrier partners, $29.9M in pipeline)
Amit Aggarwal - Co-Founder at Iris
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode 115 weeks ago
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Co-Founder and ex-CTO at THE YES (acquired by Pinterest), ex-CTO at BloomReach, ex-Senior Director of Engineering at Groupon, ex-Google, ex-Microsoft
Iris is an AI analyst that helps business teams make faster, smarter decisions by turning data into actionable insights.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Data Infrastructure and Analytics | Team Size: 8
Co-Founder: Jayanth Mysore (Held founding roles across Google Products -Cloud Search, UGC for Google Maps, Google Analytics 360, Merchant APIs for Google’s payments ecosystem) - Connect via email
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 years 5 months
Konstantin Klingler - Co-Founder & CEO at Seamflow
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Incubations & Investing at Auctor, ex-Founder’s Office at Spenmo, ex-IBD Spring Intern at Lazard, ex-Growth & PE at Global Founders Capital
Seamflow is building the AI infrastructure that powers faster innovation in the physical world.
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Latest Funding: $4.5M Seed Round
Key Investors: Initialized, Northzone, Nebular VC, EF, Transpose Platform
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Alex Zannos - Co-Founder at Pensa Technologies
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Cofounder at Vaquero Space, ex-Electrical Engineer at Apollo Fusion, Astra, and Zoox, Stanford alum, ex-Intern at Tesla
Pensa Technologies is building AI agents for aerospace & defense manufacturing to automate the most time-consuming and failure-prone tasks.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Co-Founder: Kristen Edwards (MIT PhD in AI for Engineering Design and Manufacturing) - Connect via email
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Theophile Gervet - Co-Founder at Genesis AI
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Research Scientist at Mistral AI, ex-Founding Research Scientist at Skild AI, PhD in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University, ex-Research Intern at Meta
Connect on: LinkedIn
Genesis is a global physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
HQ: France
Industry: Research Services | Team Size: 22
Co-Founder: Zhou Xian (Robotics PhD from CMU, ex-IBM and Facebook AI)
Latest Funding: $105M Seed Round on 7/1/2025
Key Investors: Eclipse, Khosla Ventures, Bpifrance, HSG
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Josh Ross - Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Engineering at Applied Intuition, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Foundry .ai, Interned at Amazon, ConsenSys, IBM, Mimeo, and Townsquare Media
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Adi Omesy - Founder at Stealth Startup
Building Something New in AI & Real Estate
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Director of Data & AI at JLL Technologies, ex-CTO & Co-Founder at WeCheck, ex-Senior Software Developer at Amdocs
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Arbaaz Khan - Founder & Chief Scientist at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, ex-Autonomous Driving Software Engineer at Rivian, PhD in Robotics from UPenn, ex-Intern at Apple, Google, Samsung AI and NVIDIA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Menlo Park, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Harrison Kaplan - Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: General Surgery Resident - Innovation Track at Baylor College of Medicine, ex-Co-Founder and CTO at Healthcare Huddle (acquired by Workweek), ex-Software Engineer at Collective Health and Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Houston, Texas, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Sebastian Vasquez-Lopez - Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Software QA Engineer at Unity, ex-Research Fellow in Neuroscience at University of Oxford, Ex-AI & Data Science Fellow at Faculty
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
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