Stealth Startup Spy #71
Automated work instruction platform goes live, Ex-Microsoft/MathWorks engineer is building something new in stealth, & Software governance automation platform exits stealth with $2M seed funding
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:
Software governance automation platform exits stealth with $2M seed funding
Former product & engineering leaders from Facebook, Amazon and Airbnb debut web3 verification platform
Automated work instruction platform geared towards manufacturers goes live
Ex-Senior Director at Nutanix debuts construction workforce management platform with $5.5M seed funding
Former Microsoft/MathWorks engineer is building something new 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
Michael Edenzon - Co-Founder & CEO at Fianu
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Director of DevOps at PNC Financial Services Group
Connect on: LinkedIn
Fianu automates software governance and bridges the gap between Engineering, Quality, Security, and Audit.
HQ: Washington, D.C., United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 6
Latest Funding: $2M Seed Round on 8/30/2023
Key Investors: DataTribe
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 15 months
Sam England - Co-Founder & CEO at Trait
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Director, Product Management at Facebook, ex-Product Manager - Search at Yahoo, ex-Product Manager at Experian
Connect on: LinkedIn
Trait is developing a world class verification platform - with the long term goal of creating the verified people graph.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 8
Key Investors: Moonfire, Protagonist
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 17 months
Manish Kumar - Co-Founder & CTO at Lumber
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Serial Founder, Technical Founder
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Director at Nutanix, ex-Director - Product Development at Oracle
Connect on: LinkedIn
Lumber is a Construction Workforce Management platform built exclusively for contractors, sub-contractors, and specialty contractors
HQ: United States
Industry: Financial Services | Team Size: 22
Latest Funding: $5.5M Seed Round on 9/12/2023
Key Investors: Carbide Ventures, EscapeVelocity, 8VC, Sure Ventures, Converge, and Firsthand Alliance
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Tomer Elbaz - Founder & CEO at Gamifyd.ai
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-EVP, Consumer Audio Division at Waves Audio, Founder of BanPiracy Inc.
Connect on: LinkedIn
Gamifyd.ai is the first AI-powered platform for social music experiences.
HQ: Austin, Texas, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 1
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 22 months
Filip Aronshtein - Co-Founder & CEO at Dirac
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Ex-Hardware Engineer at Northrop Grumman, Johns Hopkins MS in Robotics
Connect on: LinkedIn
Dirac is closing the gap between engineering and manufacturing. Their first product is BuildOS, the first automated work instruction platform.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Desktop Computing Software Products | Team Size: 6
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 22 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Antoni Lewa - Co-Founder & CEO at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Group Product Manager at Delivery Hero, ex-Director of Product Management at LingoAce, UC Berkeley Haas MBA
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Jakarta, Indonesia
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 10 months
Sufyan Lattouf - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Ex-Software Engineer at Coinbase, ex-Software Engineer at Shogun, ex-Enterprise Software Engineer at Facebook
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Tanvi Gour - Founder at Stealth Mode AI Startup
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Ex-Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, ex-Software Tools Developer at The MathWorks
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Francis Lam - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Top 10 University, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Ex-VP Platform at HealthVerity ($142M raised healthtech), ex-CTO & Co-Founder of Curisium (acquired by HealthVerity), ex-VP Data Science at Aetion
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Los Angeles, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 13 months
Luke Ahn - Founder at Stealth Startup
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Co-founder and ex-CEO at RiderDash (raised seed), ex-Blockchain Lead at Blind, ex-CEO at Fronto, ex-Product Manager at Amazon Web Services
Connect on: LinkedIn
Building generative AI startup for game studios
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 10 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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