Stealth Startup Spy #307
Ex-AWS GM & Intel VP goes stealth, Former Amazon/Meta engineering leader joins YC to put AI infrastructure on autopilot, & MIT PhD & ex-Meta AI researcher enters stealth
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Former AWS GM and Intel VP launches stealth AI venture
Ex-Amazon and Microsoft engineering leader builds AI platform to unlock GPU capacity (YC W26)
Computer Science PhD from MIT and former AI research scientist at Meta enters stealth
Ex-Perception Engineer at Chef Robotics builds AI Agents for product teams (YC W26)
Ex-Director of Engineering for Ads Audiences and Display Ads Data at Google launches stealth startup
And more…
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🕵️♂️Founders Coming Out of Stealth
Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode
Charles Ding - Founder & CEO at Chamber
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineering Leader at Amazon, ex-Software Engineering Manager at Facebook, ex-Co-Founder & CTO at Bungee (acquired by ClearDemand) , ex-Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Chamber’s AI enabled platform orchestrates, governs, and optimizes your AI infrastructure so teams can run ~50% more workloads on the same GPUs without manual intervention.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Ritesh Nayak - Co-Founder at DeepLM
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Manager at Avail, ex-Product Manager at Google, ex-Co-Founder at muHive, ex-Consultant at ThoughtWorks, ex-Research Intern at Microsoft Research India
DeepLM is an AI infrastructure platform that optimizes heterogeneous GPU/CPU workloads using learning-based resource allocation to cut training and inference costs while maximizing utilization at scale.
HQ: United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Yue Dai - Co-Founder at Strand AI
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Pathos and Enable Medicine, ex-Software Engineer at Microsoft Research and Amazon Web Services
Strand AI builds data generation and imputation models for biology.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Biotechnology Research | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Mathias Lovring - Co-Founder & CEO at Balance
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Founder at CoBooks, ex-CFO at Female Invest, ex-Director, GRØD Products at GRØD
Balance gives users real-time, audit-ready books & accounting with flat pricing.
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Tom Achache - Co-Founder & CTO at Unisson
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Perception Engineer at Chef Robotics, ex-Applied Research Scientist - Machine Perception at Ambient.ai, ex-Machine Learning Research Intern at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Unisson builds AI agents that absorb repetitive and complex product work so teams can support more customers and focus on growth.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Murty Dasari - Founder & CTO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Engineering - Ads Audiences & Display Ads Data at Google, ex-Sr Staff Engineer at Bloom Energy, ex-Principal Engineer/Staff Technical Architect/Tech Lead at PayPal
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Santa Clara, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Xavier Puig - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-AI Research Scientist at Meta, Computer Science PhD from MIT, ex-Research Intern at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Richard Searle - Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief AI Officer and Vice President of Confidential Computing at Fortanix
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Greater London
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Pawel Swietojanski - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-AI/ML Researcher at Apple, ex-Scientia Lecturer at UNSW, ex-Research Scientist at Emotech LTD, ex-Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh, ex-Research Intern at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United Kingdom
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Kavitha Prasad - Co-Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-GM at Amazon Web Services (AWS), ex-VP & GM Datacenter, AI and Cloud Execution and Strategy at Intel, ex-VP Business at SiMa.ai, ex-Director Engineering at Xilinx
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
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