
Stealth Startup Spy #366
Ex-Cohere & DeepMind alum builds AI for financial intelligence, Duke researcher builds a chip replacing camera+GPU (YC S26), & Ex-Apple/NVIDIA and YC alum goes stealth
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Ex-Cohere & DeepMind alum builds AI for financial intelligence, Duke researcher builds a chip replacing camera+GPU (YC S26), & Ex-Apple/NVIDIA and YC alum goes stealth

Former OpenAI COO goes stealth, Ex-Scythe Robotics CEO builds infra for real-world robots (YCS26), & Ex-Apple Siri QA engineer and YC alum, enters stealth mode with new AI startup

Co-creator of Google’s AlphaChip brings agentic AI to chip design, Meta & Microsoft engineer goes stealth, & Ex-DeepMind scientist verifies AI agents against spec

Ex-People Data Labs CEO builds identity infra for the agentic economy, 3x founder (Slingshot Biosciences, Radiant Genomics, Pattern Ag) enters stealth, & Google alum builds AI-native chip design tools

Ex-Apple AR & MIT researcher builds a neural interface couture house, CoScreen founder (acq. Datadog) builds something new, & Ex-Meta tech lead builds enterprise AI for insurance agencies

Ex-DOZR CTO builds real-world AGI backed by HF0 & Google/Amazon/Stripe angels, Ex-Google/SpaceX/DoorDash engineer builds an AI "employee" with voice, & Underscore VC GP launches stealth AI infra

Ex-BlackRock risk exec builds Trust OS for AI agents, Ex-SpaceX Starlink director builds GPS-augmenting nav hardware for pilots, & BCG alum builds a discovery engine from untapped materials lab data

Meta alum builds AI that audits manufacturing compliance packages, Ex-Google policy lead builds an AI second chair for litigators, & MIT researcher builds AI sandboxes that catch malicious packages

Ex-Google DeepMind engineer goes stealth, Ex-Meta/Instagram engineer launches AI-native tooling for instant gaming, & a16z-backed ex-AWS engineer builds a compiler for agent-runnable workflows

Ex-HubSpot engineering director builds AI CRM that acts, not tracks, Ex-Boston Dynamics roboticist builds YC-backed AI robotics venture, & Kyoto Fusioneering co-founder launches first isotope refinery