Stealth Startup Spy #9
Ex-Plaid PM debuts finance app to help you build generational wealth, Seasoned Y Combinator founder exits stealth for new developer platform, & Amazon Product Lead leaves to build Gen Z social app
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-Plaid PM debuts finance app to help you build generational wealth
Seasoned Y Combinator founder exits stealth for new developer platform
Ex-Google Engineer is building a stealth conversational AI startup
Another ex-Google Engineer is building in Web3 (currently in stealth)
Google/Amazon alum launches VC-backed live performances OS
Amazon Product Lead leaves to build Gen Z social app
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
Chandrika Maheshwari - CEO & Founder at Pull
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top10 University
Prior Experience : Ex-Product Manager at Plaid, Docusign, Former Nike, Google, Bain & Company
Connect on: LinkedIn
Pull enable employees to have more control over their future earnings
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Financial Services | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 4 months
Eric Rowell - Founder & CEO at Second
FounderDNA: Serial Founder
Prior Experience : Co-Founder and ex-CTO at Uiflow ($21M raised). Former Head of Data Visualization at Workday, Ex-LinkedIn, Ex-Yahoo
Connect on: LinkedIn
Second is a developer platform that deploys agents that write code and raise pull requests for common web application features.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Software Development | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Cesar Berho - Co-Founder & CTO at Zenpli
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Top10 University
Prior Experience : Ex-CTO at Tribal ($143.4M raised), Former Engineering Manager at Nubank. Ex-Intel, Deloitte, Dell
Connect on: LinkedIn
Zenpli makes it easy for Fintechs in LatAm to manage KYC and fraud complexity through a single modular API, no matter the use case.
HQ: Mexico City, Mexico
Industry: Financial Services | Team Size: 11
Latest Funding: $1.1M Pre-Seed Round on 9/30/2022
Key Investors: Amador Holdings, Newtopia VC, The Fintech Fund, RaliCap
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Jaldeep Apacharya - Co-Founder & CTO at Velvet
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience : Former Senior Software Engineer at Google, Ex-Software Engineer at Amazon, and Ex-Software Developer Intern at EF Education First
Connect on: LinkedIn
Velvet is a VC-backed pre-seed stage software start-up building the next live performances operating system.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 months
Danielle Vermeer - Founder & CTO at Teleport
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience : Former Product Lead at Amazon, Ex-Brand Manager at Kimberly-Clark. Former Boeing
Connect on: LinkedIn
Teleport is a social app to share and shop outfit videos. Think a mix of Depop and TikTok
HQ: Washington, DC, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet | Team Size: 4
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
🕵️♂️Key Talent Going Under Stealth
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
Austin Hughes - Co-Founder at Stealth
Prior Experience : Ex-Senior Product Manager at Ramp. Former Investment Banking Analyst at Centerview Partners
Connect on: LinkedIn
Building at the intersection of go-to-market and AI/ML
HQ: New York, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Darwin Lui - Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Former FAANG, Top10 University
Prior Experience :Ex-Product Manager at SmartBiz. Former Paypal, Apple, EY, Wells Fargo
Connect on: LinkedIn
Building in Fintech
HQ: Los Altos, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 26 months
Prashant Mishra - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Former FAANG, Masters Degree
Prior Experience : Ex-Engineer at Google. Former Bloomberg
Connect on: LinkedIn
Building a stealth conversational AI startup
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Hari Venkata - CEO, Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Former FAANG, Masters Degree
Prior Experience : Ex-Amazon Customer Solutions Manager. Former Talend, RightNow Technologies
Connect on: LinkedIn
Building a SAAS startup
HQ: San Jose, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
Brian Lee - Co-Founder at Stealth
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Masters Degree
Prior Experience : Ex-Google Software Engineer. Former Technical PM at Zentail
Connect on: LinkedIn
Building a Web3 startup
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 months
Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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