Stealth Startup Spy #28
AI Investment Research Platform exits stealth with $3M pre-seed funding, Ex-Revolut employees build a crypto neo-banking project, & Ex-Amazon/SpaceX engineer is building something new in stealth
Stealth Startup Spy is a data-driven newsletter for investors, journalists and tech enthusiasts interested in uncovering the next big move for key talent, real-time stealth company launches and technology advancements not in plain sight. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points to help you identify tomorrow's opportunities that are currently hiding in the shadows. These signals include tracking the inflows and outflows of talent who work at “Stealth Startups”, bios and profile changes to “building something new” and monitoring press releases to shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.
In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
AI-powered research assistant that can do everything a junior analyst at a hedge fund does exits stealth (raises pre-seed)
Stealth venture by Harvard PhD underway for over a year
ChatGPT4 x accounting and finance tool emerges from stealth (raises seed, waitlist only)
Ex-Senior Director of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks is building a stealth startup in the data and analytics space. (raised seed)
Former employees of Revolut are building a crypto neo-banking project in secret (already raised funding)
Ex-Amazon/SpaceX engineer is building something new in 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
Michael Tuso - Co-Founder & CEO at Callypso
Prior Experience: Former President at AA-ISP (American Association of Inside Sales Professionals), Former Director of Revenue Performance at Chili Piper
Connect on: LinkedIn | Twitter
Callypso helps account managers expand and retain their customers
HQ: Ashland, Oregon, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 6
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Alen Cvisic - Co-Founder & CEO at Tola
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Scout at Sequoia Capital, Mentor at Seedcamp, Former Marketing Director at Pleo
Connect on: LinkedIn | Twitter
Tola is the fast, easy and free tool for businesses to pay and get paid.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 14
Latest Funding: Undisclosed Seed Round
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 17 months
Frederik Winther - Founder & Co-CEO at Litir
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Former Strategy Manager at Jabra, Ex-Associate at McKinsey & Company, Ex-Co-Founder & CCO at Spirifex Esport
Connect on: LinkedIn
Litir is an easy, fast, and cost-efficient end-to-end workflow for investment analysis, visualization, and presentation
HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months
David Plon Co-Founder & CEO at Portrait Analytics
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Principal at The Baupost Group, ex-Analyst at Barclays Capital, Stanford MBA
Connect on: LinkedIn
Portrait Analytics is a personal research assistant that empowers analysts to discover and ramp up on new investment ideas in record time.
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Industry: Financial Services
Latest Funding: $3M Pre-Seed round on 4/6/2023
Key Investors: .406 Ventures
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 20 months
Henning Seifahrt - Co-Founder & Managing Director at Leato
FounderDNA: Master’s Degree
Prior Experience: Former Global Head of Operations & People at Cosuno, Ex-Management Consulting at Capgemini Invent, Ex-Product Management at Porsche
Connect on: LinkedIn
Leato streamlines your entire L&D administration - all in one single tool
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: E-Learning Providers | Team Size: 17
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 14 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Eyal Firstenberg - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Director, Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, ex-VP Research & Development at LightCyber (Acquired by Palo Alto Networks), ex-Officer at IDF
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Latest Funding: Undisclosed Seed Round on April 2023
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
David Avraham - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Physics Instructor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, ex-Algorithm Engineer at Israeli Air Force, Harvard Medical School Post-Doctoral fellow
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Israel
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
Aaron Beck - Co-founder of DeBlock
Prior Experience : Ex-Head of Core Payments at Revolut, ex-Director at Barclays, ex-Senior Manager at Bank of America, ex-Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch
Connect on: LinkedIn
Deblock is building the safest non-custodial wallet in the world to own, transfer, deposit, and exchange crypto or cash.
HQ: United Kingdom
Industry: Financial Services | Team Size: 14
Latest Funding: $12M on 04/2023
Key Investors: 20VC, Kraken Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, Headline
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months
Dakota Morse - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at ALT Group, ex-Account Executive at Amazon, ex-Executive Advisor at UMass Entrepreneurship Club
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Jeffrey Weng - Co-Founder/Engineer at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Mechanical Engineer at Amazon, ex-Mechanical Systems Design Engineer at BLUE ORIGIN, ex-SpaceX
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Greater Seattle Area
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 18 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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