Stealth Startup

Back with 3 incredible stealth founders this Stealth Startup Tuesday 🥷 Mark Faridani - prev. ML Engineering Manager Apple for nearly 10 years. Before that, Applied Researcher @ Microsoft. Berkeley PhD in Operations Research + MS in CS. Rachel Moore - prev. Principal Product Manager Atlassian. Serial product leader @ Upstart (pre-IPO), Pilot AI (backed by DoD). Caltech BS in Chemical Engineering. Stanford GSB MBA. Now building AI for family caregiving. Anna daftari - Berlin-based. Prev. Chief BCM Officer N26 (backed by Peter Thiel), CoS at Project A Ventures, and Growth Director @ Enpal. Partner @ 403CAP, in addition to stealth. Submit your startup at the link in our bio! And if you have a partner holding it down, don't forget to thank them : ) #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired

We've got 3 incredibly cracked stealth founders this Stealth Startup Tuesday 🥷 Zoé Gadsden - prev. COO @ Matter Labs (zkSync), the $258M ZK-rollup company backed by a16z and Lightspeed. First non-technical hire, scaled team to 165 people across 35 countries, co-led the $200M Series C. Before that, ran Google for Startups accelerators across DACH & Scandinavia - her cohorts went on to raise $270M+. Anirudh Seth - prev. Senior Director of Engineering, AI @ Dropbox, where he led the org that built and launched Dash. Before that, Head of Engineering & Science for Game Ads at AWS, crafting a $1B ad revenue strategy. 20 years in engineering leadership. COEP grad! Nima Majd - prev. 11 years at Apple across M&A, Business Development, and Strategy. Led Apple's Brazil strategy and the financial partnerships team overseeing billions in US consumer sales. Due diligence on the Beats acquisition. Pear VC PFC Fellow and USC alum. Submit your startup at the link in our bio! And touch some grass. Just leave your laptop cracked open of course 👾 #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired

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It's Stealth Startup Tuesday! Here are the 3 stealth founders we're watching this week 🥷 Manoj Krishnan - prev. Principal Engineer & Director Google, building AI Infra for LLM training/inference on TPU/GPU hyper clusters. 7+ years leading AI Infrastructure @ Meta, powering next-gen ML training platforms at Facebook scale (Ads, Newsfeed, Instagram, Search). PhD in Computer Science. Lena Wang - prev. VP of Data Center Strategy AMD. Ex-Intel Strategy/M&A Director. Ex-Goldman Sachs VP. Stanford GSB MBA, Tsinghua, UC Berkeley. Building in AI infrastructure & data center optimization (since 2024!) Jake Huston - 2x founder (Buffy: $30M+ revenue in 18 months). Launched IG Shop Tab 0→1 Instagram, drove 30% of all IG Shopping revenue. Led blockchain payments growth @ Meta. Berkeley Haas MBA building in consumer. Submit your startup to Harmonic at the link in our bio! And happy building - you got this : ) #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired

3 stealth founders we loved this week 🥷 Kevin Carlberg - prev. Director of AI Research Science Meta, leading teams building AI for next-gen AR/VR. 8 years at Sandia National Labs as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff & Truman Fellow. Affiliate Associate Professor @ UW. Stanford PhD. Irawadee T. - Siebel Scholar studying CS (AI) Stanford University. Research Lead @ Stanford HAI. Built sleep-monitoring algorithms at NextSense (Google X spinout). Prior founder x2. Engineered low-cost ventilators for rural hospitals during COVID. Makan Amini - prev. GM Sword Health leading their AI mental health product Mind. Co-founded Meomind. Ex-McKinsey & Company. Stanford GSB MBA + Harvard Kennedy MPA. Serial healthcare builder back at it again. Submit your startup at the link in our bio! And as always, happy Stealth Startup Tuesday! #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired

It's Stealth Startup Tuesday - check out 3 stealth founders we loved this week: 🏎️ Emilio Scervo - prev. CTO Bugatti Rimac. Chief Vehicle Engineer @ Aston Martin (Valhalla, Vanquish). Chief Engineer @ McLaren, 7 years leading mid-engine architecture @ Ferrari, 25+ years engineering the world's most iconic supercars. SDA Bocconi Executive MBA. 🧠 Jahnavi Kocha - prev. Senior PM Robinhood and Intuit Mailchimp, where she launched QuickBooks Capital and Payments/PPP loans. Goldman Sachs Women Startup Programme. Founded Claremont Women in Business @ Claremont McKenna College. On Deck Catalyst Fellow. May be raising, according to Harmonic 👀 🧮 Cristopher Salvi - Associate Professor in Mathematics & Machine Learning Imperial College London. PhD in Math from Oxford. Quant Researcher @ Citi & BlackRock. ML Consultant for Symbolica AI (backed by Khosla, General Catalyst). Entrepreneur First alum. Submit your startup at the link in our bio. You all are going to crush this week - even if you feel like Ben Horowitz sometimes 🚀 #stealth #preseed #founder #deeptech

Stealth Startup Tuesday 🥷 with 3 stealth founders you don't want to miss! Shiwali Mohan  – prev. Principal AI Scientist PARC, AI Consultant @ Toyota Research Institute. PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Michigan. 50+ publications, 10 patents. Ex-Yahoo software engineer. Markus Krutzik  – Professor Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Caltech PostDoc, Technical Consultant @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Co-Founder & Director of Quantum @ Rydberg Photonics. 15+ years in quantum technology. Now building in quantum sensing. Khalil Ismail  – prev. AR Engineering Apple, PM @ Microsoft (generated $28.7M in revenue for Microsoft AI), Neuro Researcher @ MIT Media Lab, AI Researcher @ Harvard. Royal Academy of Engineering Scholar. Oxford-backed. Now building neuro-AI interfaces.  – May be raising 🤫 Submit your startup to get discovered on Harmonic - link in bio! And have a wonderful week of building my friends! #stealth #preseed #founder #quantumtech #AI #neurotech

3 stealth founders you don't want to miss! Happy Stealth Startup Tuesday 🌟 * Debasish Biswas - prev. Co-founded Atoga Systems (acquired by ARRIS) and CTO @ Aware (now part of Mimecast). SVP Engineering @ Aura, VP Cloud Engineering @ HPE Aruba Networking, CTO @ Aware (acquired by Mimecast). * Masato Kito - prev. CHRO freee.k.k. (public, 3K employees). Government fellow. Seasoned executive with deep VC-backed company experience in Japanese fintech. Building in Tokyo. * Niketh Sabbineni - prev. CTO & Co-Founder @ Bookpad (acquired by Yahoo). Senior SWE, ex-Yahoo, Amazon. Sourced with Harmonic! #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired

Founders can now tell investors on Harmonic what they're building and whether they're raising - even in stealth 🥷 We won't say what they're up to, but here are three we loved: * Monika Podsiadlo - prev. Voice AI Google DeepMind. 14+ years at Google leading Text-to-Speech, shipping 200+ TTS voices in 30 languages and productionizing WaveNet. Edinburgh MSc. * Liyuan Gao - prev. PM @ BCG, partnering with OpenAI on Gen AI product development. Built a VR app for a $500B city plan Accenture. Ex-Meituan e-commerce ops driving 23% YoY growth. * Alina Vrsaljko - ex-McKinsey & Company, leading AI & Tech strategy reporting to the Chief Strategist. Won multi-million dollar deals at HPE at age 21. NYU Stern Tech MBA. Submit your startup at the link in our bio! And as always, happy Stealth Startup Tuesday! #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired

Founders can now tell investors on Harmonic what they're building and whether they're raising - even in stealth 🥷 We won't say what they're up to, but here are three we loved: * Monika Podsiadlo - prev. Voice AI Google DeepMind. 14+ years at Google leading Text-to-Speech, shipping 200+ TTS voices in 30 languages and productionizing WaveNet. Edinburgh MSc. * Liyuan Gao - prev. PM @ BCG, partnering with OpenAI on Gen AI product development. Built a VR app for a $500B city plan Accenture. Ex-Meituan e-commerce ops driving 23% YoY growth. * Alina Vrsaljko - ex-McKinsey & Company, leading AI & Tech strategy reporting to the Chief Strategist. Won multi-million dollar deals at HPE at age 21. NYU Stern Tech MBA. Submit your startup at the link in our bio! And as always, happy Stealth Startup Tuesday! #stealth #preseed #founder #acquired