(0090) senior product leaders turned stealth founders

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Early Stage Founders

• Raveesh Bhalla

  • Highly technical product lead at Netflix/LinkedIn now “exploring something new” as a part of South Park Commons.

  • LinkedIn

• Dima Kislovskiy

  • Senior PM (Uber) and VP of Trucking (Aurora) now working in stealth for just over a year. Had a previous driving safety startup in 2013-2016.

  • LinkedIn

• Matthew Osman

  • Co-founder of a stealth biotech startup. Previously co-founded Treat (2021-2024) and participated in the Longevity Biotech Fellowship (2023-2024). Based in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Nikshep Saravanan

  • Serial founder currently building at Sculpt Research and DreamLoom. Previously founded and sold SoulBazaar, LetsAgent.ai, and RealmPlay.ai. Former Senior Software Engineer at Instacart and Engineer at Coinbase.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Yaniv Bronstein

  • Building a fintech startup in stealth with experience founding multiple prior fintech startups (RobinhoodX, LeoX).

  • LinkedIn

• Alfredo Diaz

  • Building DarDen to automate freelancer paperwork. Previously a product leader (EventBrite, Lance) before moving into VC (Potentialist Capital, Samsara Capital Partners).

  • LinkedIn

• Adriaan Balt

  • Engineering lead (BetterUp, SquareSpace) turned founder, currently building WeAlign to automate enterprise security reporting.

  • LinkedIn

• Aditya Bandi

  • PM at Yahoo and Hopper, now building Weaver, a tool for designers. Currently in stealth but “launching soon”. Probably has some initial funding since he’s hiring for a couple roles.

  • LinkedIn

Already Funded Founders Followed

• Igor Ostrovsky (Twitter, LinkedIn) - Augment, building an AI software development agent with a novel context engine

Investors Followed

• Akshay Mehra (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Anas Biad (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Mo Islam (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Taggart Bonham (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Arpan Shah (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Akshat Goenka (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Engineers Followed

• Colin Flaherty (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• David Ashworth (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Egg Syntax (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Prithvi Gudapati (Twitter, LinkedIn)

• Wouter van Marrum (Twitter, LinkedIn)

Researchers Followed

• Jyo Pari (Twitter, LinkedIn)

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