Stealth Startup Spy #3
Tinder founder & Sacramento Kings owner back talent-sourcing platform, Healthcare app exits stealth with $1.2M pre-seed funding, & Serial Founder with Prior Exit picks up first check from TLV partners
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:
Serial Founder with Prior Exit picks up first check from TLV partners
Tinder founder and Sacramento Kings owner back talent-sourcing platform
Ex-Head of Growth at Revolut is now building in stealth mode
Healthcare app exits stealth with $1.2M pre-seed funding
Ex-Coinbase Product Designer builds Web3 startup 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
Daniel Bulkin - Founder & CEO at Healistic
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience : Angel Investor, Ex-Investor at H.I.G. Capital
Connect on: Linkedin
Healistic is an all-in-one universal healthcare app to help you manage your health and purchase any Pharma & Personal Care products, while removing the need to physically visit pharmacies.
HQ: London
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 4
Last Funding: $1.2M Pre-Seed Round on 2/1/2023; Total Capital Raised: $2.4M
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 months
Naty Shai - Co-Founder & CPO at Visually.io
Prior Experience : Ex-CPO at Adika, Ex-Director of Product at GlassesUSA
Connect on: Linkedin
Visually.io is a no-code platform that helps merchants optimize revenue through user-centered shopping experiences
HQ: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 7
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 13 months
Aparna Pande - Co-Founder at GoodOnes
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top10 University, Prior Exit
Prior Experience : Founder & ex-CEO at Kidstir (acquired), Ex-VP & GM at The Walt Disney Company, Ex-GM at Meredith Corporation
Connect on: Linkedin
GoodOnes offers an AI-powered, user-friendly photo curation experience to help organize and enjoy memories
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Media | Team Size: 8
Last Funding: $3.5M Seed Round on 1/21/2023; Total Capital Raised: $3.5M
Key Investors: TLV Partners, Rich Miner, Peter Welinder, Liquid 2 Ventures
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 13 months
Ankush Goel - Co-Founder & CTO at Legato Logic
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Doctorate Degree, Prior Exit
Prior Experience : Ex-Senior Principal Design Engineer at Cadence Design Systems and Former Nusemi and MediaTek, Founding Team at Abtum (acquired)
Connect on: Linkedin
Legato Logic builds ultra-low power intelligent sensors, available as turnkey modules, using proprietary technology
HQ: San Jose, California, United States
Industry: Semiconductors | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 24 months
David Witten - Co-Founder at Noon AI
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top10 University
Prior Experience : Ex-Quantitative Developer Intern at Citadel, Former Instagram, Facebook, Google
Connect on: Linkedin | Twitter
Noon AI is a talent-sourcing platform that enables you to effortlessly scale your talent pipeline, completely in-house
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 9
Last Funding: N/A
Key Investors: Founder of Tinder, owner of the Sacramento Kings, VP at Doordash, Cory Levy
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
Tim Kingery - Co-Founder at Stealth
Prior Experience : Ex-CEO at ArcadeLand. Former Communications Manager at ShareRing, and Former Director of Content Development at Linguahouse.com
Connect on: Linkedin | Twitter
HQ: Dayton, Ohio, United States
Building a Web3 platform
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Val Scholz - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience : Founder and Ex-CEO of Kiko, Ex-Head of Growth at Revolut, and Growth Product Manager at Seedrs
Connect on: Linkedin | Twitter
HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
Most likely building an AI + digital health startup
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Vinay Datta - Co-Founder and Founding Engineer at Stealth
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience : Ex-engineer at Komodo Health, Former-Software Engineer at DrChrono, and Invitae
Connect on: Linkedin
HQ: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Yitong Zhang - Co-Founder at Stealth
Prior Experience : Co-Founder of VectorDao, Ex-Coinbase Product Designer, and Co-Founder at Hemingly
Connect on: Linkedin | Twitter
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Building in Web3.
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months
Tom Slocum - Co-Founder at Stealth
Prior Experience : Founder at The SD Lab, 7x Strategic Advisor at Leadium, Falkon, Humantic AI, Outplay, Chili Piper, Sendoso, and Dooly
Connect on: Linkedin | Twitter
HQ: Queen Creek, Arizona, United States
Most likely building in the Sales tech space.
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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