Stealth Startup Spy #316
Ex-Founders Fund Partner launches revenue automation infrastructure ($35M raised), Johns Hopkins AI PhD leaves Apple for stealth, & Ex-Stripe alum builds financial rails for autonomous AI agents
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Ex- Founders Fund Partner and Brex CRO launches a startup automating customer acquisition and revenue growth
Johns Hopkins PhD and former researcher at Apple, Google, and Hippocratic AI launches a stealth startup
Former Stripe engineer is building financial infrastructure that allows AI agents to hold, move, and spend money autonomously
TU Delft PhD in Generative AI is building the infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied systems
Former Head of AI at Backflip and Tech Lead Manager at Scale AI (MIT CSAIL background) launches stealth company
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
Sam Blond - Co-Founder & CEO at Monaco
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode 71 weeks ago
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Partner at Founders Fund, ex-CRO at Brex, ex-VP Sales at Zenefits, ex-Founder and CEO at Blond Consulting
Monaco automates customer acquisition and revenue growth for startups.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 38
Total Funding: $35M
Key Investors: Founders Fund, Human Capital
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 19 months
Priyanshu Tanwar - Co-Founder at RxPay
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Product at Upsurge Labs, ex-Product Manager at StakeKit and Instadapp, ex-Resident at The Residency
Connect on: LinkedIn
RxPay leverages AI to increase healthcare ops efficiency by up to 40% - handling highly accurate digitization, agentic document gathering, and medical necessity prediction.
HQ: India
Industry: Insurance | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Cristian Meo - Co-Founder & CEO at LatentWorlds AI
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: PhD in Generative AI at TU Delft, ex-Research Intern at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, ex-Research Intern at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
LatentWorlds AI is building the deployment backend for physical AI.
HQ: Netherlands
Industry: Data Infrastructure and Analytics | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 10 months
Rishab Luthra - Co-Founder at Sponge
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Stripe, ex-Software Engineer Intern at Facebook, Google, ScholarMe, and Smartcar
Connect on: LinkedIn
Sponge (YC W26) is building the financial infrastructure that lets AI agents hold, move, and spend money autonomously.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Ryan Zahrai - Co-Founder & CEO at Parachute
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Former Head of Legal of Eucalyptus, and founder of Zed Law
Parachute is building the default legal operating system for SME law firms and businesses.
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 7
Latest Funding: $1.8M Pre-Seed Round on 12/2025
Key Investors: Rampersand
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Logan Ford - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of AI at Backflip, ex-Tech Lead Manager at Scale AI, ex-Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Libby Meshorer - Founder & CEO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Pear VC Fellow, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Salesforce, ex-Project Manager at ViewersLogic, Harvard MBA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Vijayaditya Peddinti - Founder at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Researcher at Hippocratic AI, ex-Machine Learning Researcher at Apple, ex-Research Scientist at Google, ex-Research Intern at Microsoft, Johns Hopkins PhD
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Kashyap Gaglani - Founder & CEO at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of AI, Data Science at Honeywell, ex-Data Science Specialist at McKinsey, ex-Data Science Consultant at Perficient
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Karthik Pallapothu - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Principal Product Manager at Adobe, ex-Principal, Product Strategy & Operations at Google, ex-Senior Product Manager at IBM, ex-Deloitte
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
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