Stealth Startup Spy #53
Founding PM at Stripe wants to replace Quickbooks in new startup, an App that gives your camera AI superpowers is looking for beta testers, & AI-powered carbon accounting platform goes live
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:
Founding Product Manager at Stripe wants to replace Quickbooks by automating accounting for startups
AI-powered carbon accounting platform designed for small businesses goes live
Seasoned product design executive debuts product research platform for product teams (waitlist only)
Former engineering manager at the world’s largest software registry is building a new open-source package manager and registry platform
Former Stripe Head of Engineering is working on a stealth fintech startup
An App that gives your camera AI superpowers is looking for beta testers
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
Theodora Chu - Co-Founder & CEO at Quanta
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#29
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Founding Product Manager, Treasury at Stripe, ex-Product Manager at Twitter, ex-Product Manager Intern, Quickbooks Online at Intuit
Connect on: LinkedIn
Quanta aims to replace Quickbooks and external spreadsheets for startups by automating accounting using integrations and AI.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months
Harrison Rose - Founder at Carbon Cognition
Prior Experience: Ex-Oracle Cloud EPM Lead at ITV, Ex-Senior EPM Consultant at Praesto Consulting
Connect on: LinkedIn
Carbon Cognition is an AI-powered carbon accounting platform designed for small businesses
HQ: London, United Kingdom
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting | Team Size: 1
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Ari S. - Co-Founder and CEO at Spaceduck
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Design at ROLLER, ex-Head of Product Design at MILKRUN, Koala, Qantas, Canva, DesignCrowd
Connect on: LinkedIn
Spaceduck is crafting the ultimate research platform tailored for dynamic product teams on a mission to build and ship incredible products with unparalleled speed.
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 months
Hunter Dolan - Founder & CTO at Iris
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Engineering at LiveControl, ex-Engineering Lead at Valence (formerly Shift)
Connect on: LinkedIn
Iris adds intelligent framing, remote control, image settings corrections, and visual effects to your camera in seconds.
HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Darcy Clarke - Founder at VLT
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Engineering Manager at GitHub, ex-Engineering Manager at NPM Inc., ex-Director of Development at Diply
Connect on: LinkedIn
VLT is building a next-gen, open source, package manager, registry & more.
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 1
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Myles Hunter - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-CEO & Co-Founder of TutorMe (acquired by GoGuardian), ex-Growth at Lyft, ex-Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Nancy Zheng - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Engineering, Money Movement Experiences at Stripe, ex-Senior Engineering Manager at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Mountain View, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Vijay D. - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-VP Product, Knowledge Experience at Celonis, ex-Sr. Director, Product Management at Elastic, ex-Director of Product Management at Tableau
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
Building products or solutions that provide better observability and understanding of business processes.
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Ben Grossmann - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Engineering at Wib, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Dropbox, ex-PM & Sr Software Engineer at Secful (YC W16)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Israel
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Hussain Sultan - Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-VP, Field Engineering at Voltron Data, ex-Director of Artificial Intelligence at MetroStar Systems, ex-Senior Data Analysis Manager at Capital One
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Most likely building an enterprise AI/ML startup
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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