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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-Apple & Tesla engineer builds energy platform paying pool owners to shift energy use off grid peaks
Applied AI/ML lead at C3 AI and a research scientist role at Amazon builds stealth venture
Ex-Meta & TikTok AI researcher builds open-source gate that catches agent behavior drift before it merges
Former VP of GPU Technology R&D at Intel and the founding RTX team at NVIDIA embarks on stealth venture
Ex-QuantumBlack (McKinsey) data scientist builds real-time AI guidance for field service crews
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: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Software Engineer at Apple, Senior Software Engineer at United Nations, Software Engineering Intern at Tesla, MIT CS
Connect on: LinkedIn
PoolFlex is an energy platform for swimming pool pumps, heaters, and chillers that shifts when equipment runs to relieve strain on the grid, while paying pool owners for the flexibility.
HQ: New York, New York, United States
Industry: Energy Technology, Grid Flexibility
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 8 Months
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Senior Research Engineer at TikTok, Senior Software Engineer at Meta, Research Engineer at Didi Chuxing, Research Assistant at Boston University
Maida builds an open-source, local-first regression gate for AI agents — it captures a known-good run, checks it in as a baseline, and fails a pull request in CI when an agent’s behavior drifts beyond policy, before it ever merges.
HQ: Mountain View, CA, United States
Industry: AI DevTools, Agent Testing
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Data Science Manager at DoorDash, Founder & CEO at Zeni Arts, Senior Data Scientist at Meta, Senior Manager at American Express
Symbric answers business questions directly from a company’s own systems and data, with every answer verified, explained, and kept current.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Enterprise AI, Data Analytics
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Senior Data Scientist at QuantumBlack - AI by McKinsey, Research Assistant at MIT, Data Scientist at Circles.Life
CrewPilot is an AI platform that rides along on every field-service visit, answering technicians in real time from a company’s own spec sheets and manuals, and auto-generating audit-ready reports for critical-infrastructure teams in energy, data centers, and HVAC.
HQ: New York, NY, United States
Industry: Field Service AI, Industrial Software
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 7 Months
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Emergent Ventures Fellow at Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Lead Researcher at The eIF4E Project at Stanford University, Deep Learning Researcher at Harvard OpenBio Institute at Harvard University
Connect on: LinkedIn
Macrobia is working on extending human lifespan, founded out of Stanford and Harvard’s biology research communities.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Biotech, Longevity
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 Months
Illuminating clues left behind by world class talent and influential innovators who just went into stealth mode
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Co-Founder & COO at Beacon (Acquired), Co-Founder & CEO at Talunt ($215K ARR, 37 customers), Software Engineer Intern at Palantir Technologies, Rhodes Trust Fellow (Oxford)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 5 months
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Senior Research Scientist at Wayve, Research Scientist at Stability AI (Stable Diffusion 3 / 3.5), Co-Founder & CTO at IREEN (real-estate evaluation), Research Collaborator at Google
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Austria
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Founding Software Engineer at NegotiateAI, Technical Co-Founder at Enu AI, Data Engineer at Meta, Software Engineer at Cmd (acquired by Elastic)
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 3 Months
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Former FAANG, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Sr. Tech Leader - Applied AI/ML at C3 AI, Research Scientist at Amazon, PhD Researcher at Stanford University
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Palo Alto, California, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 2 Months
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: VP of GPU Technology R&D at Intel Corporation, Lead Research Scientist at Facebook/Meta (DeepFovea, Oculus Quest), Research Scientist at NVIDIA (core RTX ray-tracing team), Head of Technology at Crytek
Connect on: LinkedIn
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
Time Spent in Stealth Mode: 6 Months
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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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