Stealth Startup Spy #277
Omeat founder & Harvard/MIT bioengineer goes stealth, Italian tech CTO builds AI idea validation platform, & Stanford alum launches AI co-scientist for research
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Harvard professor, MIT PhD, and founder of Omeat and Obsidio (acq. Boston Scientific) launches new stealth venture
Ex-Apple ML lead joins Y Combinator to build an AI knowledge platform
Ex-Applied Materials deep learning leader and Stanford researcher creates an AI platform to accelerate scientific discovery
Former Google Assistant engineering leader and Sully.ai CTO enters stealth
Dedalo AI partner and Italian tech CTO creates platform that validates startup and investment ideas in seconds
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
Alexey Zanin - Co-Founder & CEO at Bead AI
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Manager at Meta, ex-Product Manager at GoCardless, ex-Co-founder, CPO at Cashbe, Argetur, and Local Internet
Bead AI uses AI agents to automate the manual steps in SOX testing, generating workpapers and test results so teams can concentrate on risk assessment instead of repetitive tasks.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Embedded Software Products | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
David Gasca - Founder at Tokki
FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Product Management - Search Labs at Google, ex-Senior Director of Product Management at Twitter
Tokki is an AI-powered language learning app for serious language learners.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Education
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Scott Riggs - Founder at Find What Matters
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Manager, Deep Learning at Applied Materials, ex-Data Science Manager at Lam Research, ex-Research Faculty / Professor at National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Stanford alum
Find What Matters is building an AI co-scientist platform called IGOR (Iterative Generation and Orchestration of Research), designed to help researchers in scientific discovery and experimentation.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Research Services | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Fabio Giannese - Founder at Beatable
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Technical Founding Partner at Dedalo AI, Berkeley SkyDeck alum, ex-Chief Technology Officer at iLMeteo, Bakeca.it, Skuola.net (Skuola Network)
Connect on: LinkedIn
Beatable helps founders and investors validate business ideas in seconds.
HQ: Italy
Industry: Business Intelligence Platforms
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Sai Gurrapu - Co-Founder & CEO at Hypercubic
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, ex-Co-Founder at Wonderly, ex-Applied Researcher at Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) and George Mason
Hypercubic (YC F25) is an AI-powered knowledge management platform.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Key Investors: Y Combinator, Afore Capital, Ride Home Fund
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Ali Khademhosseini - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Founder at Omeat, ex-CEO at Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Co-Founder at Obsidio (Sold to Boston Scientific), ex-Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon, Harvard Professor, MIT PhD in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Bhawna Mittal - Co-Founder & COO at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Global VP Strategy & Operations at ServiceNow, ex-Global Head of Strategy & Operations at Automation Anywhere, ex-Global VP Marketing & GTM at Accelerite, ex-Sr. Director, GTM Strategy and Operation at Oracle
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Chaitanya Gharpure - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Co-founder/CTO at Sully.ai, ex-Engineering Manager, Google Assistant at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Santa Clara, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Luke Wing - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer - Embedded Ontology at Palantir Technologies, ex-SDE Intern at Amazon, Okta, Nike and Travelliance
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: New York, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Manchen Hu - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Research Assitant at Stanford University, ex-Hardware Engineer at Apple, Stanford PhD in Electrical Engineering
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
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