Get an API key 12 founders who worked at ByteDance started a company in stealth in the last 1783 weeks.
Product Operations Lead at ByteDance2021-2025 · left Nov 2025
Global VP GTM at Sharpa2025-2026
Operations Lead at DiDi2019-2021
Program Management at Tesla2018-2018
Market Manager at Air Liquide2013-2017
MITMBA
MITMBA
IFP SchoolMaster'sHead of Strategy & Operations at ByteDance2021-2022 · left Jan 2022
Co-founder at OiiOii AI2026-2026
Head of Creator Operations, TikTok Shop U.S. at TikTok2022-2026Associate Director at DiDi2018-2021
Consultant at Roland Berger2016-2018
Part Time Assistant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)2014-2014
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityBachelor'sDeveloper Operation Manager at ByteDance2024-2026 · until Sep 2026
Technology and Innovation Coop at Siemens Digital Industries Software2023-2023
Northeastern UniversityMaster's
Tianjin Normal UniversityBachelor'sBrand Partnership - Tiktok at ByteDance2020-2021 · left Mar 2021
Director of Growth at Karta2025-2026
Director of GTM & Partnerships at ConvoZen2024-2025
Founder at Hippo2022-2024
Brand Partnerships at The Viral Fever2018-2020
Product Lead at Flipspaces2016-2018
Business Development at Gloob Decor - FlipSpaces2014-2016
IIT BombayMachine Learning Engineer, TL at ByteDance2023-2026 · until Sep 2026
Lead Applied Scientist, Salesforce Research at Salesforce2021-2023
Applied Scientist, Science Lead at Amazon2020-2021
Senior Data and Applied Scientist, Tech Lead at Microsoft2017-2020
Research and Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign2011-2016Rsearch SDE Intern at Microsoft2015-2016University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPhDUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMSShanghai Jiao Tong UniversityBS
Research Scientist (Head of Engineering), LLM System at ByteDance2024-2026 · left Apr 2026Research Scientist at Cursor2026-2026Tech lead Manager, Core ML Runtime at Google2014-2024Software Developer Internship at Microsoft2013-2014Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityBE
UCLASoftware Engineer at ByteDance2025-2025 · left Sep 2025
Co-Founder at October Dev2026-2026
Canopy at Founders, Inc.2026-2026Software Engineer at TikTok2025-2025
Model Rocket Engineer & Designer at ManSEDS (Manchester Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)2023-2024
Software Engineer at Fleet Management Limited2024-2024National Rocketry Championship (NRC) Payload Engineer at ManSEDS (Manchester Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)2023-2024
The University of ManchesterBS
Machine Learning Engineer at ByteDance2026-2026 · until Aug 2026Computer Science PhD Student at Columbia University2022-2026Research Intern at Google DeepMind2024-2026Neural Engineer at OpenBCI2021-2022Teaching Assistant at Columbia Engineering2021-2021
Associate Researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute2017-2021Columbia UniversityMSWorcester Polytechnic InstituteBSSoftware Engineer at ByteDance2021-2021 · left Jun 2021
Co-Founder at Tribal Mobility2024-2025
VP, Conference Department at CMU Summit on U.S. - China Innovation and Entrepreneurship2020-2021
Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise2020-2020
Harvard UniversityMaster'sMIT
Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor'sAI PM & Strategy at ByteDance2025-2026 · left Jun 2026
Senior Investment Manager at Monad Ventures2023-2024
Investment Manager at GLP2021-2023
Investment Manager at StarRock Ventures 星岩创投2021-2023
COO at Wattah Pte Ltd2020-2020
新加坡国立大学MS
同济大学Bachelor'sResearch/Product at ByteDance2023-2026 · left Feb 2026
Building at South Park Commons2026-2026
University of PennsylvaniaBSProject Manager at ByteDance2023-2024 · left Jun 2024
Project Manager at Lilith Games2022-2023Video Project Manager at ByteDance2020-2022
Content Operations Intern at Tencent2020-2020
NYUMS
Nanjing Normal UniversityBachelor'sCrustdata tracks hundreds of millions of professional profiles. This directory is one saved search: "current title includes founder, current company is Stealth", re-run every week. Point the same search at your own market.
Get an API key# the one request behind this page curl https://api.crustdata.com/watch/person/search \ -H "authorization: Bearer $CRUSTDATA_KEY" \ -H "x-api-version: 2025-11-01" \ -d '{ "filters": { "op": "and", "conditions": [ { "field": "experience.employment_details.current.company_name", "type": "[.]", "value": "stealth" }, { "field": "experience.employment_details.current.title", "type": "(.)", "value": "founder" } ]}, "fields": ["basic_profile", "experience", "education"], "config": { "trigger": { "type": "interval", "every_hours": 168 } } }' # [.] = exact phrase, (.) = all words. Each week it returns only the new matches.
What "stealth" means here: the person's current job is a founder title (Founder, Co-Founder, Founder & CEO…) at a company listed as "Stealth", "Stealth Startup" or similar, because they haven't announced it yet.
Where it comes from: public professional profiles, via the Crustdata API. A new search runs every week and adds whoever newly matches. Profiles can take a few weeks to show up, and start dates are by month.
The company on each row is the most recent job before going stealth, with the title they held there. Where we can, we skip internships, advisor seats and freelance stints. On a "former employer" page it shows the job at that employer instead. Click a row for their full work history and education.