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Ex-Google DeepMind founders who just went stealth

14 founders who worked at Google DeepMind started a company in stealth in the last 1783 weeks.

Ex-Google DeepMind
Showing 14 of 14 founders

Max Cleary

Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Business Development - Data Acquisition
Before that
Went stealthNov 2026
Work
  • Business Development - Data Acquisition at Google DeepMind2025-2026 · until Nov 2026
  • Director - Go To Market (acquired by Google DeepMind) at Common Sense Machines2024-2026
  • Strategic Partnerships EMEA at Unity2022-2024
  • Industry Practice Lead - Creative at Digital Catapult2018-2022
  • AI Think Tank - Council Member at BIMA (British Interactive Media Association)2019-2021
  • AI Partnerships Manager at Digital Catapult2018-2020
  • Head of Growth (acquired by TikTok) at Jukedeck2017-2018
Education
  • University of BristolBS

Harsh Tenoria

Co-Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Research Engineer
Before that
Went stealthNov 2026
Work
  • Research Engineer at Google DeepMind2019-2022 · left Mar 2022
  • Staff Research Scientist at Perplexity2024-2026
  • Research Scientist at Mistral2022-2024
Education
  • Stanford UniversityMS
  • Carnegie Mellon UniversityBS

Caglar Gulcehre

Co-Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Research Consultant
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Research Consultant at Google DeepMind2024-2025 · left May 2025
  • Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI2025-2026
  • Research Consultant at Nimble2023-2024
  • Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind2017-2023
  • Doctoral Researcher at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute2012-2017
  • Visiting Researcher at Microsoft2017-2017
  • Researcher at Maluuba2016-2017
Education
  • Université de Montréal / University of MontrealPhD
  • Middle East Technical UniversityMS
  • Bahcesehir UniversityBS

Pierre-Louis Cedoz

Co-Founder & CEO
Left
Google DeepMind
Senior Research Engineer
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Senior Research Engineer at Google DeepMind2023-2024 · left Jul 2024
  • CTO at H Company2024-2026
  • Senior Research Engineer at Google2020-2023
  • Advanced ML Researcher at BenevolentAI2018-2020
  • Deep Learning Research Assistant - Prof Gevaert's Lab at Stanford University School of Medicine2016-2018
  • Deep Learning Research Intern at BenevolentAI2017-2017
  • Machine Learning Visiting Student at Polytechnique Montréal2016-2016
Education
  • Stanford UniversityMS
  • Ecole polytechniqueMEng

Quham Adefila

Co-Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Research Engineer
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Research Engineer at Google DeepMind2024-2024 · left Sep 2024
  • Artificial Intelligence Engineer at Rokos Capital Management2025-2026
  • Founder at Inspire Maths Tuition2020-2024
  • Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase2023-2023
  • Software Engineer at Improbable2022-2022
  • Spring Intern at G-Research2022-2022
  • In Focus Programme at Jane Street2021-2021
Education
  • Imperial College LondonMEng
  • Brampton Manor AcademySixth Form

Aakanksha Chowdhery

Co-founder & CEO
Left
Google DeepMind
Staff Research Scientist
Before that
Went stealthSep 2026
Work
  • Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind2023-2024 · left Apr 2024
  • Advisor at Reflection2025-2026
  • Senior Staff Research Scientist at Meta2024-2024
  • Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Google2018-2024
  • Researcher at Princeton University2015-2018
  • Researcher (ML & Systems) at Microsoft2013-2015
  • Research Assistant, Ph.D Student at Stanford University2007-2013
Education
  • Stanford University
  • Stanford UniversityPh. D
  • Stanford UniversityMS

Jash Doshi

Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Open Source Contributor
Before that
Went stealthSep 2026
Work
  • Open Source Contributor at Google DeepMind2026-2026 · left Jul 2026
  • Fractional Founding Engineer at Kairos Spark AI2026-2026
  • Founding Team at Interact AI2025-2026
  • Founder at TechThree2024-2025
  • Research at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi2024-2024
  • Research And Development at Octo2024-2024
  • Cloud Facilitator at GDSC2023-2024
Education
  • NYUMEng
  • University of MumbaiBE

Joseph Gu

Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Research Scientist Intern
Before that
Went stealthAug 2026
Work
  • Research Scientist Intern at Google DeepMind2025-2025 · left Sep 2025
  • Research Intern at NVIDIA2024-2024
  • Research Intern at Google DeepMind2023-2023
  • Graduate Research Assistant at Massachusetts Institute of Technology2019-2021
  • Research Intern at Microsoft2020-2020
  • Visiting Research Intern at Massachusetts Institute of Technology2019-2019
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at Harvard University2017-2019
Education
  • CaltechPhD
  • Harvard UniversityBachelor's
  • MITMS

Yasin Abbasi Yadkori

Co-Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Researcher
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Researcher at Google DeepMind2020-2025 · left Feb 2025
  • Researcher at Sapient Intelligence2025-2026
  • Researcher at VinAI2019-2020
  • Researcher at Adobe2016-2019

Osman Aka

Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Senior Software Engineer
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind2024-2026 · left Jun 2026
  • Senior Software Engineer at Google2019-2026
  • Software Engineer, Founder at quantmedal.com2018-2019
  • Software Engineer at deepmedicine2017-2018
  • Software Engineer, Co-Founder at Antinertia2016-2017
  • Digital Compositor at anima istanbul2016-2016
  • Teaching Assistant at TÜBİTAK2010-2015
Education
  • Boğaziçi UniversityDropout

Mohammad Azar

Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Staff Research Scientist
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind2016-2024 · left Jan 2024
  • Technical Lead at Cohere2024-2026
  • Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University2014-2016
Education
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Radboud UniversityPhD
  • University of TehranMS

Colton Swingle

Co-Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Software Engineer
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Software Engineer at Google DeepMind2022-2025 · left Jun 2025
  • Co-Founder at Antioch2025-2026
  • Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University2022-2022
  • Computer Science Instructor at Crimson Education2018-2022
  • Software Engineer Intern at Google2021-2021
  • Software Engineer at Recor Medical2020-2021
  • Business Development Consultant at OpenBench2020-2021
Education
  • Stanford UniversityMaster's
  • Stanford UniversityBS

Barry Dong

Founder
Left
Google DeepMind
Tech Lead
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Tech Lead at Google DeepMind2020-2023 · left Aug 2023
  • Senior Staff Research Scientist at Meta2025-2026
  • Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI2025-2025
  • Founding Researcher / Tech Lead at Augment Code2023-2025
  • Research Scientist at Amazon2021-2021
  • Student Researcher at Google DeepMind2020-2020
Education
  • Beihang UniversityBS
  • University of Technology SydneyPhD

Sony Wu

Co-Founder & CEO
Left
Google DeepMind
Research
Before that
Went stealthJan 2026
Work
  • Research at Google DeepMind2025-2026 · until Jan 2026
  • Engineer, Tech Lead at Google2023-2026
  • Co-Founder at Aurary Lab2023-2026
  • Engineer at Google2020-2023
  • Software Engineer Intern at YouTube2019-2019
  • Game Designer Intern at NetEase Games2018-2018
  • Product Manager Intern at Teradata2017-2017
Education
  • University of MichiganBS
  • AllianceALL18
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison

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# 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.

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About this list

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.