Stealth Startup Spy #69
Ex-Meta/VMware engineer unveils AI powered revenue automation platform, Founder with prior exit to Atlassian debuts AI codesigner startup, & Ex-Apple hardware engineer takes on a new stealth 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:
Technical founder with prior exit to Atlassian unveils AI codesigner for every hardware engineer (waitlist only)
Ex-engineer from Meta, Scale AI, and Microsoft introduces an AI agent designed to assist with business and technology product planning
Former Meta/VMware engineering lead unveils AI powered revenue automation platform (waitlist only)
Experienced hardware engineer is co-founding a game-changing logistics venture in stealth mode
Ex-Tesla ML engineer is building a stealth AI pet healthcare startup
Former security and privacy engineering leader at Meta and Amazon leaves to co-found 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
Derek Deyang Zhao - Co-Founder & CEO at Converge Lab
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-Engineering Manager at Atlassian, Co Founder and ex-CTO at Percept.AI (Acquired by Atlassian), ex-Software Engineer at Facebook
Connect on: LinkedIn
Converge Lab aims to create an AI co-designer that enables hardware engineers to design more efficiently, economically, and effectively.
HQ: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 3
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Louis Mittelstaedt - Founder at Stitching
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Entrepreneur in Residence at Dragonlabz, Founder at LMV agency, ex-CMO at 91Marketing
Connect on: LinkedIn
Stitching is a prompt engineering platform made to simplify task automation through AI interaction.
HQ: Hergiswil, Nidwalden, Switzerland
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 months
Minsuk Kang - Founder at Rubix
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Software Engineer at Saturn ($44M raised from General Catalyst, Bezos Expeditions, Insight Partners), ex-Software Engineer at Scale AI, ex-Software Engineer at Facebook, ex-Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
Rubix is reshaping the way people work through AI & Web3. Their first product is an AI product manager - Gobi
HQ: United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Latest Funding: $400K Pre-Seed Round on 7/29/2023
Key Investors: Klim Ventures
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Boris Valkov - Co-Founder & CEO at Lace
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Engineering Leadership - AI at Facebook, ex-Senior Manager, R&D at VMware
Connect on: LinkedIn
Lace powers revenue automation for high-performing sales teams.
HQ: Mountain View, California, United States
Industry: Software Development
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 21 months
Arya Tandon - Founder at Embarc
FounderDNA: Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Special Projects Associate at Encord, ex-Special Projects Lead at Academy
Connect on: LinkedIn
Embarc is an events-focused community empowering exceptional future founders
HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 4
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
Orika Orrie - Co-Founder & VP at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Cloud Security Manager at Accenture
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Johannesburg Metropolitan Area
Building an AI cloud security startup
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Kevin Ha - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Head of Privacy Incident Response Engineering at Meta, ex-Head of Security Engineering, Alexa AI at Amazon, ex-Poshmark, ex-Arlo Technologies, ex-Samsung SDS
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Bellevue, Washington, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Andrew Sousa - Co-Founder and Director of Hardware at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Hardware Engineering Manager at American Robotics, ex-Hardware Engineer at Tulip Interfaces, ex-Hardware Engineer at Apple
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Building in the logistics industry.
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 month
Claire Lee - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Machine Learning Engineer at Tesla, ex-Research Collaborator - Computational Psychiatry Group at IBM
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Menlo Park, California, United States
Building an AI pet healthcare startup
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Juan L. Aparicio Ojea - Co-Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-VP of Products at Rapid Robotics, ex-VP of Product at READY Robotics, ex-Head of Research Group - Robotics & AI at Siemens
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Building the Future of Manufacturing
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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