Stealth Startup Spy #37
Proptech startup achieves unicorn status with stealth exit and $100M funding, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Adept AI leaves to start own venture, & Harvard dropout debuts tax compliance platform
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:
Proptech startup achieves unicorn status after exit from stealth and $100M funding!
Ex-Stripe/Amazon alum is building a stealth startup
Harvard Business School dropout debuts cloud-based platform to simplify sales tax compliance
Ex-ByteDance ML Engineer launches AI co-pilot for bio-computing
Data platform exits stealth with $2.5M pre-seed funding to build production-ready data pipelines for any company
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Adept AI leaves to start own venture
ZoomInfo’s Head of AI is building something new in stealth mode
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
Ryan Stroker - Co-Founder & CEO at Avenue One
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Managing Director at Amherst Holdings & Royal Bank of Scotland, Ex-Merrill Lynch
Connect on: LinkedIn
Avenue One is a property technology service platform and marketplace for institutional owners, buyers and sellers of residential homes.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Real Estate | Team Size: 198
Latest Funding: $100M Strategic Funding Round on 5/15/2023
Key Investors: WestCap, MetLife, Global Atlantic Financial Group, KKR
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 years and 6 months
Pujun Bhatnagar - Cofounder, CEO and CTO at Kintstugi
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook, ex-Intern at Pandora and Yelp, Stanford MS Computer Science
Connect on: LinkedIn
Kintstugi is a novel sales tax API that allows SaaS companies to compute their sales tax obligations in real-time.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Zhen Li - Co-Founder at DeBrief Bio
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Machine Learning Engineer at ByteDance, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Google, ex-Research Intern at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
Debrief Bio is an AI Co-pilot for Bio-Computing
HQ: San Jose, California, United States
Industry: Biotechnology Research | Team Size: 1
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Eric Hansander - Co-Founder and CEO at Twirl
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Engineering Manager at Better, ex-Director of Data Science at iZettle, Ex-Manager at Ericsson
Connect on: LinkedIn
Twirl is a platform for data teams looking to ship value, not tooling.
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Industry: Data Infrastructure and Analytics | Team Size: 7
Latest Funding: $2.5M Pre-Seed Round on 5/23/2023
Key Investors: Creandum, Cocoa Ventures
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 10 months
Bing Xu - Co-Founder & CEO at HippoML
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta, ex-Principal Engineer at OctoML, ex-Facebook AI, ex-Apple
Connect on: LinkedIn
HippoML provides robust solutions for GPU AI computation.
HQ: United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Alan Bekker - CEO at Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Prior Exit, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Conversational AI at Snap Inc., Co-Founder of Voca.ai (acquired by Snap), ex-Deep Learning Researcher at Intel
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Ashish Vaswani - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Co-Founder and ex-Chief Scientist at Adept AI Labs, ex-Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Daniel Aviram - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Head of AI at ZoomInfo, ex-Sr Data Scientist at Yonatan Labs, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Tel Aviv District, Israel
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Erich Anderson - Co-Founder at Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Program Manager at Amazon, ex-Pricing Operations Manager at Convoy, Inc
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
Working on a solution for the FTL contract freight market
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Pi Zonooz - CEO & Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Global Partnerships, GTM at Stripe, ex-Senior Manager, Solution Architecture at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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