Stealth Startup Spy #61
A Figma like platform for building AI apps goes live, Ex-CTO from one of India’s fintech unicorns is building in stealth, & Ex-Microsoft engineer debuts platform for customizing AI assistants
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:
A ChatGPT-powered location data explorer that uses open-source mapping datasets from Google Map's competitor.
An adtech startup that can seamlessly place your product into videos after filming.
A Figma-like platform for building AI apps.
A platform designed for tailoring or customizing AI assistants.
A startup building the next generation of AI voice bots to help companies replace their call centers.
The director of engineering at Google leaves to start their venture after a 12-year tenure.
An ex-CTO at Yubi, India's fintech unicorn, is building in stealth.
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
Michelle Tan - Co-Founder & CEO at Unearth AI
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of Finance at Culdesac ($40M raised from Khosla Ventures), ex-Senior Lead, Finance and Business Operations at WeWork
Connect on: LinkedIn
Unearth AI is a modern location solutions powered by AI. Democratizing working with geospatial data.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 months
Elena Zapolyanskaya - Co-Founder & CMO at Unipopcorn
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Partnerships at HES FinTech, ex-Head of Partnerships at GiniMachine AI, ex-Chief Marketing Officer at Phygit
Connect on: LinkedIn
Unipopcorn is an adtech startup that can seamlessly place your product into videos after filming.
HQ: Warsaw, Poland
Industry: IT System Custom Software Development | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Joaquin Ossandón Stanke - Co-Founder & CTO at Perhaps
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience : Ex-Developer at Fintual (raised $54M from Sequoia and Kaszek Ventures), ex-Teaching assistant at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Connect on: LinkedIn
Perharps is like Figma for AI experiences. Experiment with LLMs before coding - with chains, variables, and the latest models, all in a drag and drop visual canvas.
HQ: Chile
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Nemo Yang - CEO at Cortex
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Microsoft, ex-Product Manager at ByteDance, ex-Software Development Engineer at Siemens Digital Enterprise Labs
Connect on: LinkedIn
Cortex is the powerful platform for customizing copilots for your specific use cases.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 7
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 20 months
Vashisht Madhavan - Founder & CTO at Humanlike
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Snorkel AI, ex-AI Researcher at Uber
Connect on: LinkedIn
Humanlike voice bots help companies scale their phone and chat operations calling without scaling headcount.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | 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
Jim Yuan - Chief Executive Officer at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Technology Officer at Mineral.ai, ex-Head of Engineering at Google X, ex-Director of Engineering, Principal Software Engineer at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Mountain View, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Harsh Mittal - Co-Founder at Stealth Mode
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Prior Exit, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Chief Technology Officer at Yubi (India’s fintech unicorn), ex-Engineering leader at Facebook, ex-Head Of Engineering at Circles
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Adam Burgh - Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Product Strategy at Amazon Web Services (AWS), ex-Head of Strategy & Planning at Uber, Harvard MBA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Greater Seattle Area
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Casey Dai - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Engineering at Capgemini, ex-Lead Instructor - Data & ML at BrainStation, ex-Head of Engineering at Manulife
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Greater Toronto Area, Canada
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
John Hoegger - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Director, Machine Learning Science for Microsoft 365 at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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