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We’re tracking company launches as they happen and surfacing the most interesting new founders and startups (yes, all outside of this stealth activity too). If you want to stay ahead of the curve, this is where you’ll find them first.
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We run a live feed inside Gravity that tracks founders entering stealth and companies quietly exiting it.
What you’re reading here is about 1% of the stealth activity we pick up. The full tracker updates in real time as things change and new activity emerges.
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In this issue of the Stealth Startup Spy, here is what we will uncover:
Ex-BlackRock risk exec builds a "Trust OS" that scores and sandboxes what AI agents are allowed to spend
After eight years shipping AI/ML products at Glean, Meta, and Microsoft, this founder is building something new in stealth
BCG alum builds an intelligence engine, mining the data already sitting in materials labs for the next big discovery
Former engineering lead at Meta and Checkr, and previously founder of Career Copilots, enters stealth
Ex-SpaceX Starlink engineering director builds resilient aviation navigation hardware that augments GPS for pilots
And more…
Now let’s shine the spotlight… 💡💡💡
Real-time updates from founders who debut what they’ve been working on under stealth mode
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Entrepreneurial Fellow at MIT, Strategy Manager at Sila Nanotechnologies, Consultant at Boston Consulting Group, Associate at SE Ventures
Connect on: LinkedIn
83 Sciences mines the unused data already sitting in materials labs to surface new-materials discoveries, building an intelligence engine for the next industrial revolution.
HQ: San Francisco and New York, United States
Industry: Materials Science, R&D Data Intelligence | Team Size: 4
Key Investors: Y Combinator (S26)
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Head of Global Enterprise Risk Analytics & Corporate Finance at BlackRock, Head of CCAR Stress Testing & Loss Forecasting at Bank of the West, Credit Risk Portfolio Analytics & CCAR Modeling Leader at Citizens, Senior Model Risk Manager at MUFG Union Bank
Kredit is a Trust OS for AI agents, an independent infrastructure that lets enterprises simulate an agent fleet in a sandbox before it touches production budgets.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: AI Agent Infrastructure, Fintech Risk Management | Team Size: 2
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Entrepreneur in Residence at Antler, Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon, Senior Software Engineer (ML) at SberDevices
Evidenso lets product teams validate feature ideas against synthetic “digital twin” user audiences before writing a line of code.
HQ: London, England, United Kingdom
Industry: Product Research AI, Synthetic User Testing | Team Size: 4
Key Investors: Antler
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Months
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Lead Robotics Engineer at Augmentus Robotics, Lead Robotics Engineer (Navigation) at KABAM Robotics, Robotics System Engineer at Rapyuta Robotics, Robotics Engineer at PickNik Robotics
Neuromorphic provides a universal robot brain for industrial security, inspection and facility automation.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Robotics, Industrial Automation | Team Size: 4
Key Investors: Y Combinator
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Vice President - Space Station Engineering at Vast, Director - Starlink Enterprise Engineering at SpaceX, Customer Engineer - Federal Google Cloud Platform at Google
Skyband Systems has built the first avionics line-replaceable unit using Iridium PNT to give commercial aircraft resilient navigation and timing that augments GPS. Targeting Q4 2026 certification with Q1 2027 customer installs.
HQ: Long Beach, California, United States
Industry: Avionics Hardware, Aviation Navigation | Team Size: 7
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Software Engineer at Glean, Software Engineer at Meta, Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University, Software Engineer at Microsoft
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Mountain View, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Sr. Photonics Device Engineer at Apple, Electrical and Electronics Engineering PhD from Stanford University
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 1 Month
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Software Engineering Manager at Meta, Engineering Manager at Checkr, Founder & CEO at Career Copilots, Head Of Engineering at Healthify
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: New York City, New York, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months
Building an AI agent for the product function in B2B SaaS companies.
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: VP Product Engineering at Atomiton, IoT Practice Lead at Deloitte, Sr. Software Engineer at Cisco
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University, Research Intern (Natural Hydrogen) at Shell, Deep Learning and AI Intern at Shell, Petrophysicist at Cairn Oil and Gas
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months
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Stay Stealthy,
Drake
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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 shine a light on the hidden world of stealth startups.
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