Stealth Startup Spy #48
Ex-Meta/Roblox engineer debuts AI-powered trust and safety operations platform, Former PM at Stripe is building an Africa-focused fintech startup, & UC Berkeley PhD unveils YC-backed developer tool
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 technology 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:
Ex-Meta, Roblox engineer debuts AI-powered trust and safety operations platform
UC Berkeley PhD is building YC-backed open source developer tools for profiling distributed training
India based startup aims to revolutionize the way brands acquire customers using AI-powered UGC video ads
After 15 years with the company, ex-Head of Thomson Reuters Labs is building a new venture in stealth
Former Product Manager at Stripe is building an Africa-focused fintech startup
Ex-Director of Product at Databricks takes on new venture
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
Ankur Rustagi - Founder & CEO at Sero AI
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Engineering Manager at Roblox, ex-Engineering Manager / Staff Software Engineer at Meta, ex-Staff Software Engineer at eBay
Connect on: LinkedIn
Sero AI streamlines the management of safety workflows, such as abuse reports, content moderation, user appeals, and more.
HQ: San Jose, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Mahmoud Mabrouk - Co-Founder at Agenta
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Founding ML Engineer at ModelMe (raised Pre-seed), Entrepreneur First alum, ex-Research Assistant at Technical University of Berlin
Connect on: LinkedIn
Agenta is the open-source LLMOps platform that allows developers to quickly build production ready LLM-powered applications.
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Rituraj Biswas - Co-Founder and CEO at Hypergro
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Product Manager at Zepto, ex-Product Manager - Growth, SharechatTV at ShareChat
Connect on: LinkedIn
Hypergro: Transforming Acquisition with AI-powered UGC Video Ads
HQ: Bangalore, India
Industry: Consumer Services | Team Size: 13
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 15 months
Andrew Aikawa - Co-Founder & CTO at Trainy
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Machine Learning Engineer at Hive, ex-Data Scientist at C3 AI, UC Berkeley PhD
Connect on: LinkedIn
Trainy makes it easy for ML engineers to optimize the training speed of large AI models with profiling dashboards that can identify resource bottlenecks during training.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Alex Pilafidis Greer - Co-Founder at Structure
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#7
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Director, Revenue Operations at SetSail, ex-Senior Director at Bombora, Founder at Signal HQ (Acquired), ex-Director at Medallia
Connect on: LinkedIn
Structure is a B2B software startup on a mission to make meetings efficient and give people more time and flexibility in their daily schedule.
HQ: Denver, Colorado, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 1
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Måns Olof-Ors - Co-Founder at Startup in Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Thomson Reuters Labs, ex-VP, Product Innovation at Thomson Reuters
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Tolu Alabi - Co-Founder at Cleva
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Manager at Stripe, ex-Senior Technical Product Manager, Augmented Reality at Amazon, Standford MBA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco Bay Area
Cleva Banking: US-based accounts for Africans to receive USD payments, save USD, and convert to local currency.
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Vinay Wagh - Co-founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Director Of Product at Databricks, ex-Sr. Director, Head Of Products at Bracket Computing, ex-Principal Engineer at Tellabs, ex-Cisco
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Los Altos, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Max Thormé - Co-founder and CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Business Developer at Google, ex-Strategy Analyst at Accenture
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Pearl Li - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Meta, ex-Machine Learning Engineer at Primer.ai, ex-Research Assistant at MIT CSAIL
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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