Stealth Startup Spy #49
Bill Gates-backed renewable energy startup emerges from stealth, Female-led construction fintech company debuts with $9.9M seed, Ex-VP at Goodwater VC/Data Scientist at Uber takes on new venture
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:
Bill Gates-backed renewable energy startup emerges from stealth (raised $91M)
Ex-VP at Goodwater VC/Data Scientist at Uber is building something new in stealth
Female-led construction fintech startup exits stealth with $9.9M seed
Ex-AWS engineer comes out of stealth with $20M funding for DevOps platform
Former Scale AI Director of Engineering takes on new venture
Harvard alum debuts 3rd party integrations platform
Former Beamery employees unveil people experience platform for lean teams (waitlist only)
Ex-Head of Data and Analytics at Google is building a stealth startup
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
Pete Johnson - CEO at Koloma
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Venture Partner at Azimuth Capital Management, Co-Founder an ex-CTO at Monolith Materials ($300M raised), Ex-Director of Engineering at Areva
Connect on: LinkedIn
Koloma is developing powerful tools, technology, and data to enable the exploration and production of clean geologic hydrogen at massive scale
HQ: Denver, Colorado, United States
Industry: Renewable Energy Power Generation
Latest Funding: $30M on 6/8/2023 | Total Funding: $91M
Key Investors: Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Energy Impact Partners, Prelude Ventures, Evok Innovations, Piva Capital
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 24 months
Jeet Mukerji - Co-Founder & CEO at Kinfolk
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Product at Hubble, ex-Lead Product Manager at Beamery, ex-Marketing Manager at Universal Music Group
Connect on: LinkedIn
Kinfolk is the People Experience Platform for lean people teams.
HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Elad Ben-Israel - Co-Founder & CEO at Wing Cloud
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services, Ex-Tech Lead, Bing Mobile at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
Wing Cloud enables teams to deliver cloud software faster and more securely, and increase independence and autonomy of both developers and platform teams.
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 18
Latest Funding: $5M Seed extension on 04/2023 | Total Funding: $20M
Key Investors: Battery Ventures, Grove Ventures, StageOne Ventures, Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners, Operator Partners
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 16 months
Sarah Buchner - Founder & CEO at Trunk Tools
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Doctorate Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Group Leader at STRABAG, PhD in Construction Tech, Standford MBA
Connect on: LinkedIn
Trunk Tools is a construction fintech startup solving the skilled labor shortage by enabling project leaders to increase workforce productivity, safety and profitability.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Desktop Computing Software Products | Team Size: 15
Latest Funding: $9.9M Seed Round on 7/13/2023
Key Investors: Innovation Endeavors, Fifth Wall, Foundation Capital
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 21 months
William Zhang - Co-Founder at MergeLink
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Student Researcher at MIT CSAIL, Ex-Software Engineer at Clay, Harvard CS
Connect on: LinkedIn
MergeLink is the fastest way to add 3rd party integrations into your product.
HQ: United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 5
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Tiago Caruso - Founder at Something New
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Doctorate Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Investment Data Science at Goodwater Capital, Ex-Senior Data Scientist at Uber, Ex-Adjunt Professor of Economics at UCLA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
Most likely building a data driven quant fund
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Tapan R. - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Head Of Strategy & M&A at Fiserv, ex-Senior Manager at Monitor Deloitte, ex-Vice President Of Technology at Merrill Lynch
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Berkeley, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 9 months
Akash Jaiswal - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Data and Analytics at Google, ex-Director of Data and Analytics at Fitbit
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Melisa Tokmak - Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-GM, Document AI | Director of Engineering at Scale AI, ex-Product Manager at Facebook, ex-Product Manager at Instagram
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco Bay Area
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Mohsen S. - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-System Engineering Lead at Google, ex-Senior Hardware Engineer at Meta, ex-R&D Engineer at Walt Disney Imagineering
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Menlo Park, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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