Stealth Startup Spy #262
Ex-Canva exec launches AI visual builder for product ideas, Abnormal Security alumni raise $31M to tackle human risk in enterprises, & DeepMind and Meta researcher with Stanford PhD enters stealth
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Ex-Canva and Adobe exec launches AI visual builder for product ideas - no design skills needed
SpacialChat founder and inDrive VC goes stealth with new venture
Abnormal Security’s former Head of Product and Head of Data Science raise $31M to tackle human risk in enterprises
Ex-Anaconda CPO is building a tool that helps Python developers dramatically speed up code using modern hardware
DeepMind and Facebook AI researcher with a Stanford PhD in AI/Bioengineering enters stealth
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
Amrita Murali - Co-Founder & CEO at Shape
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode 53 weeks ago
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-VP, Global Head of Business Marketing at Canva, ex-Head of B2B Marketing, Creative Cloud Product Group at Adobe, ex-Director, Marketing at Gartner
Shape is an AI visual product builder that lets users build any feature and test any idea on existing products without code or design expertise.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Co-Founder: Vicky Sehrawat (Co-Founder at Poised, ex-Head of Engineering at ASAPP) - connect via email
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 13 months
Nicole Jiang - Co-Founder & CEO at Fable Security
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Product at Abnormal Security, ex-Product at Mixpanel, ex-Product at Microsoft, ex-Product at Palantir Technologies
Fable Security helps enterprises reduce human risk by shaping employee behavior.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Computer and Network Security | Team Size: 29
Co-Founder: Sanny Liao (Ex-Head of Data Science at Abnormal Security) - connect via email
Latest Funding: $24.5M Series A Round on 5/1/2025 | Total Funding: $31M
Key Investors: Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 17 months
Chandler Vaughn - Co-Founder & CEO at Epochly
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Product Officer at Anaconda, ex-Sr. Director of Engineering, Data Availability & Disaster Recovery at Nutanix
Epochly™ helps Python developers run their code much faster, taking advantage of modern hardware - without needing to rewrite it or risk security issues.
HQ: United States
Industry: Software Development
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Adrian Barbir - Co-Founder & CEO at Doe
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Braintrust, ex-Co-Founder at The Deep View
Doe (YC S25) deploys purpose-built AI inside private-equity-backed groups, starting with dental service organizations (DSOs).
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 4
Co-Founder: Richard Ou (Board Advisor for AI at Penn Engineering)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Damien Lewke - Founder & CEO at Nebulock
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode 35 weeks ago
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Product Management at Arctic Wolf, ex-Senior System Engineer at Palo Alto Networks, ex-Solutions Architect at CrowdStrike
Nebulock is the first agentic threat hunting platform; autonomously surfacing behaviors, not just IOCs, from existing data.
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Industry: Computer and Network Security | Team Size: 20
Latest Funding: $6M Seed Round on 7/29/2025 | Total Funding: $8M
Key Investors: Bain Capital Ventures, Decibel VC, Zetta Venture Partners, In-Q-Tel
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 15 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Danny Chepenko - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Corporate VC at inDrive, Founder at SpacialChat, ex-Data Scientist at Yahoo! Japan
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Brazil
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Catherine Yeo - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Warp & Apple, ex-AI Researcher at IBM & MIT CSAIL, ex-Lead Venture Partner at Contrary, ex-Co-Founder at Sesame
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Frank Wang - Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Principal Research Engineer at Salesforce AI, ex-Head of Eng at Vlocity (acq by Salesforce), ex-Lead Engineer at SAP & HealthTap
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Ayin Vala - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Prior Exit, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Associate Director of AI at Stanford Med, ex-Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer at Pragma Bio, ex-Chief Data Scientist at Foundation for Precision Medicine, ex-Founder at Admissions AI (acq)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months
Eric Nguyen - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Research Intern at Google DeepMind, Google, and Adobe, ex-Researcher at Stanford & Facebook AI, Stanford PhD in AI and Bioengineering
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
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