Stealth Startup Spy #340
Ex-Google silicon engineer & Intel Xeon architect goes stealth, Spotify-style B2B celebrity digital twins platform goes live, & Ex-Dropbox AI director & Amazon head goes stealth
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Google cloud silicon engineer and Intel Xeon architect enters stealth
Serial SaaS founder and Salesforce advisor launches a Spotify-style B2B subscription platform for celebrity digital twins
Dropbox AI engineering director and Amazon head enters stealth
Insight Partners and Foundation Capital investor, Sups founder (acquired by US News), enters stealth
Ex-Uber staff designer is building a platform that distills frontier LLMs into fast, cheap specialist models for product teams
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
Max Di Capua - Co-Founder & CEO at 19th
Prior Experience: Staff Product Designer at Uber, Design Lead (Merchant) at Postmates by Uber, Product Designer at Humble Bundle, Product Designer at Mixbook
Connect on: LinkedIn
Co-Founder: Spencer Thurston (Staff Designer / Sr Manager at Uber)
19th is an AI platform that searches hundreds of model candidates and distills the best into small, fast specialist models for product tasks such as extraction, classification, scoring, and ranking — optimized to beat frontier LLMs on accuracy, latency, and cost.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months
Alain Denzler - Founder & CEO at Twinity
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Fellow at EWOR, Founder & CEO at getitAI, Co-Founder & Product Director at Pitcher, Partner Advisory Board Member at Salesforce CRM Analytics
Connect on: LinkedIn
Twinity is a B2B subscription platform for digital twins of celebrities and talent, managing rights, distribution, and monetization of likeness while giving businesses access to a curated talent roster — modelled similarly to how Spotify licenses music streaming.
HQ: United States - Switzerland
Industry: Creator Economy, AI Licensing, B2B SaaS
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 Months
Dan Li - Co-Founder & CEO at Argos
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Founder at Shopbolt, Senior Product Manager at Faire, Manager Strategy & Finance at Airbnb, Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company
Argos helps in-house legal teams surface institutional knowledge grounded in their team’s past decisions, enabling faster and more confident legal delivery.
HQ: United States
Industry: LegalTech, Enterprise AI, B2B SaaS
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 Months
Mehdi Rais - Co-Founder & CEO at Davis AI
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Master in Management at HEC Paris, Finance & Management at London School of Economics, Bachelor’s at IEP Paris, Angel Investor at Uncovr, Angel Investor at Daisy
Davis AI is an AI-native real estate company that accelerates early-stage development and architectural design.
HQ: France
Industry: PropTech, AI, Architecture | Team Size: 10
Latest Funding: $5.5M Pre-Seed on 5/6/2026
Key Investors: Heartcore Capital, Balderton Capital
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 Months
Jonathan Andersson - Founder at Moni
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Founder at Bronn, Co-Founder at Bluebook (Backed by EQT & Y Combinator), GTM at Quartr, Analyst at Bambora
Moni is an AI-powered expense management tool that automatically finds, downloads, and matches receipts on behalf of finance teams.
HQ: Sweden
Industry: FinTech, Expense Management
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Sonal Jain - Founder and CEO at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Director of Software Engineering at Google, Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, Research Assistant at Information Sciences Institute
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 Months
Sam Mckennoch - Building at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Manager at Allen Institute for AI (AI2), Co-Founder at EarthSenseAI, Engineering Manager ML at WellSaid Labs, Research Manager at Deepgram
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month
Anirudh Seth - Co-Founder & CTO at Stealth AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Senior Director of Engineering, AI at Dropbox, Head of Engineering and Science, Game Ads Innovation at Amazon Web Services, Head of Engineering at Amazon
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months
Rehan Rupawalla - Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Founder at Sups (Acquired by US News), Investor at Insight Partners, Investor at Foundation Capital, Generative AI at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Account Leadership & Research at Mercor
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months
Ram Padmanabhan - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Hardware Engineer, Cloud & Infrastructure Silicon at Google, Sr. Director Datacenter Validation of Xeon & Networking SoCs at Intel, Principal Engineer, Computer Architect for Xeon Phi (HPC & Deep Learning) at Intel
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months
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