Stealth Startup Spy #55
Former Microsoft PM debuts AI co-pilot for bankers, Ex-CISO of the IDF launches cloud security startup, & Ex-AI/ML lead at Alan ($542M raised insurtech) is building AI for the news industry
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-PM at Microsoft launches AI co-pilot for bankers
Product lead at X, the moonshot factory exits stealth with pre-seed funding for EV charging infrastructure company
Ex-CISO of the Israel Defense Force debuts cloud security startup with $12M seed funding
Ex-AI/ML lead at Alan ($542M raised insurtech) is building AI for the news industry
CISO & AI Security Architect at Microsoft leaves to become CEO of a stealth startup
Former Google ML Engineer is building a B2B genAI startup 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
Jake Johnson - Co-Founder & CPO at Onnix
🔎Featured Founder under stealth mode in StealthStartSpy#43
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Manager at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
Onnix is a no-code platform bringing AI & modern data analysis tools to banking teams to improve accuracy and speed up work-flows.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Lucas Ackerknecht - CEO & Co-Founder at Alpha Grid
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Product Lead, Data & Machine Intelligence at X, the moonshot factory, ex-Machine Learning Specialist at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
Alpha Grid helps energy developers discover, deploy, and unlock value from distributed energy resources that connect to the electric grid.
HQ: Palo Alto, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 4
Latest Funding: $2.5M Pre-Seed Round on 7/19/2023
Key Investors: Asymmetric Capital Partners, Twine Ventures
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 13 months
Dror Kashti - Co-Founder & CEO at Sweet Security
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Information Security Officer of the Israel Defense Force
Connect on: LinkedIn
Sweet Security is a cloud-native runtime security suite designed to stop cloud workload attacks.
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
Industry: Computer and Network Security | Team Size: 15
Latest Funding: $12M Seed Round on 8/9/2023
Key Investors: Glilot Capital Partners, CyberArk Ventures
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 12 months
Khalid M. - Co-Founder at fastn
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Engineering at fabric, ex-Founding VP of Engineering at Veeve, ex-Software Engineering Leader at Amazon
Connect on: LinkedIn
fastn is a design platform powered by GenAI, making it easy to create APIs.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 32 months
Effy Zhang - Co-Founder & CEO at Baserun
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Product Designer at Cruise, ex-Senior Product Designer at Square
Connect on: LinkedIn
Baserun helps you ship your LLM apps with confidence and speed.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
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
Shruti Gupta - CEO & Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-CISO at Microsoft Identity, Ex-CSO at Brex, Ex-Head of Security at Instacart, Ex-Airbnb, Cisco, Zynga
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco Bay Area
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Hubert J. - Founder & Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Data and AI/ML at Alan ($542M raised insurtech), Ex-Data Science Manager at Spotify
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
Building AI for the news industry
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Anup Cowkur - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Engineering at Groww (raised $418M from Foxhog, Sequoia, Ribbit, Propel VC), ex-Head of Engineering at Gojek
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Brent Shulman - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Engineering Manager at Pave, Ex-Tech Lead at Palantir
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Romain Rey - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Machine Learning Engineer at Google and Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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