Stealth Startup Spy #36
Former Apple Music executive launches music financing platform (raises $32M), Splunk/Yahoo alum debuts film budgeting software for producers, & Ex-Coinbase Data Scientist is building a Gen AI startup
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 technologay 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:
Splunk/Yahoo alum debuts film budgeting software for producers
Ex-Coinbase Data Scientist is building a stealth generative AI startup
Former Apple Music executive launches music financing platform (raised $32M series A)
Generative AI-powered Test Coder exits stealth with $5M seed funding
Ex-Google Brain engineer is bootstrapping a company to help electronics builders
Ex-Apple engineer debuts AI tour guide that can find information, history, events and recommendations wherever you go
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
Christopher Nolte - Co-Founder at Duetti
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Apple Music Content Acquisition and Business Development, ex-Vice President of Partnerships at TIDAL, ex-Manager at Strategy&
Connect on: LinkedIn
Duetti was founded with the mission of getting a wide range of artists quick and easy access to catalog sales and unlocking new investment opportunities.
HQ: New York, United States
Industry: Financial Services | Team Size: 16
Latest Funding: $32M Series A Round on 5/3/2023 ; Total Raised: $39M
Key Investors: Presight Capital, Untitled, Roc Nation, Viola Ventures, Viola Credit
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
Simon Tam - Co-founder & CTO at Saturation
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Principal Engineer at Splunk, ex-Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo, ex-Software Design Engineer at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
Saturation.io is a cloud-based financial management platform for the gig economy.
HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 11 months
Batu Inal - Co-Founder at Balance
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Protocol Lead at Foundation, ex-Software Engineer at YouTube, ex-Software Engineer at Apple, ex-Software Engineer at Twitter
Connect on: LinkedIn
Balance empowers businesses to see all of their cash balances in a single interface and provides actionable insights to improve cash management and avoid the unexpected.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Robert Macrae - Co-Founder at Summer AI
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Staff Software Engineer at SoundHound, ex-Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML at Apple, ex-Cobalt Robotics, ex-Reddit
Connect on: LinkedIn
Summer AI is your personal AI travel guide for the whole world
HQ: United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Media | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 14 months
Rishi Singh - Founder & CEO at Sapient
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Co-Founder and ex-CTO at Harness ($425M raised), ex-Platform Architect at Apple
Connect on: LinkedIn
SapientAI is the creator of AI Test Coder, the only platform to combine contextual insights, code intelligence and generative AI to write valid test code within complex environments automatically.
HQ: Mountain View, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 9
Latest Funding: $5M Seed Round on 5/16/2023
Key Investors: 8VC, Correlation Ventures and GTMfund
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 20 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
David Cheperdak - CEO and Founder of Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Principal Cloud Security Engineer at Fiserv, ex-Sr. Software Architect at Apple, ex-Principal Architect at Qualys, ex-Cisco
Connect on: Linkedin
HQ: Cary, North Carolina, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 14 months
Noah Jacobs - Co-Founder, CEO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Data Scientist, AI Privacy at Apple, UC Berkeley CS
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Truckee, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Vikrant Patel - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Former FAANG, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of AI & Digital Transformation at Rapyd, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Apple, ex-Software Developer at Facebook, ex-Software Engineer at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Gurugram, Haryana, India
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Andrei Lyskov - Chief Executive Officer at Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Lead Data Scientist at Coinbase, ex-Data Scientist at Apple, ex-PeerStreet, ex-IBM
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Canada
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Marcin Szczodrak - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Software Engineer at Figure & Tesla, ex-Sr Software Engineer at Google Brain
Connect on: Linkedin | Twitter
HQ: Palo Alto, California, United States
Bootstrapping a company that provides innovative tools to help address the challenges faced by builders of electronics products.
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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