Stealth Startup Spy #29
AI playbook to personalize marketing campaigns at scale emerges from stealth, Amazon veteran ventures into stealth with new startup, & Crypto platform launches with $7M seed funding
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:
Former Stripe and Twitter PM ventures into stealth for next big move
Stanford PhD and former Googler debuts easy-to-use platform for training custom large language models (waitlist only)
Amazon veteran enters stealth with new startup
Crypto platform comes out of stealth with $7M seed funding led by Paradigm
AI playbook to personalize marketing campaigns at scale emerges from stealth (Ex-Twitter/Meta founder)
Carnegie Mellon MBA launches cybersecurity startup for enterprise companies
Former VC-backed founder with Standford MBA is building in stealth mode
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 mod
Andrew Huang - Founder of Conduit
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Quill, ex-Infrastructure Engineer at Wish, ex-Software Engineering Intern at Pinterest and Twitter, MIT CS
Connect on: LinkedIn | Twitter
Conduit is a crypto native infrastructure platform.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development
Latest Funding: $7M Seed Round on 3/28/2023
Key Investors: Paradigm
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Honglei Liu - Co-Founder at Tofu
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#21
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Engineering Manager at Twitter and Affirm, ex-Head of ML at Fast, ex-Research Scientist Manager at Facebook
Connect on: LinkedIn | Twitter
Tofu, an AI playbook for your marketing team to repeatedly create personalized marketing campaigns at scale.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Vinay Mamidi - Founder & CEO at Whiteswan Security
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-VP, Product Strategy at Virsec, Ex-PM at Palo Alto Networks, Former Senior Product Line Manager at A10 Networks, Carnegie Mellon MBA
Connect on: LinkedIn
Whiteswan Security preventing identity and access attacks for your endpoints and applications.
HQ: Belmont, California, United States
Industry: Computer and Network Security | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
James Connell - Co-Founder & CMO at Carbon Balance
Prior Experience: Former Chief Ecommerce & Customer Experience Officer at Roots, Ex-Digital Marketing Strategy Consultant
Connect on: LinkedIn
Carbon Balance leverages technology to achieve a harmonious balance between business growth and sustainability
HQ: Singapore
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Sharon Zhou - Co-Founder & CEO at Lamini
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: CS Faculty - Adjunct at Stanford University, Instructor at Coursera, ex-Machine Learning Product Manager at Google, Stanford PhD
Connect on: LinkedIn | Twitter
Lamini allows any engineering team to outperform general purpose LLMs through RLHF and fine-tuning on their own data.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 5
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 17 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Connor Gray - CEO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Principal Technical Product Manager at Amazon
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Abdullah Bakhach - Co-founder & CTO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-CTO at TOTERS Delivery ($18M raised), ex-Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Lebanon
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Lauren Wilhelm - Co-Founder & COO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Strategy and Operations at Amazon
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Daniel Autrique - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Co-Founder at Klar ($90M raised), Ex-Bain&Co, Stanford MBA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Mexico City
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 17 months
Theodora Chu - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Founding Product Manager at Stripe, ex-Product Manager at Twitter, Stanford Eng
Connect on: LinkedIn | Twitter
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 10 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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