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Ex-Huawei founders who just went stealth

11 founders who worked at Huawei started a company in stealth in the last 1783 weeks.

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Konstantin Besfamylnyi

Founder
Left
Huawei
Product Manager, Application and Software (A&S) Product Unit
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Product Manager, Application and Software (A&S) Product Unit at Huawei2004-2007 · left Jun 2007
  • Managing Director - Telecom & Digital Infra, North America at Sand Technologies2024-2026
  • Practice Leader - Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) at Intellias2020-2024
  • Chief Operating Officer & Founding Partner at Other: High growth tech startups - product and services2018-2020
  • Advisory Manager, Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) at PwC2016-2018
  • Director Of Business Development at Comverse (Amdocs acquired Comverse in 2014) at Comverse Technology, Inc.2007-2014
Education
  • Carnegie Mellon UniversityMBA
  • Odessa National Telecommunications AcademyMS
  • Scholar of the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX)

Kevin Xue

Founder
Left
Huawei
Software Engineer Intern
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Software Engineer Intern at Huawei2022-2022 · left Sep 2022
  • Founding Software Engineer at Petra Security2026-2026
  • Software Engineer at Citadel2026-2026
  • Software Engineer Intern at TikTok2025-2025
  • Software Engineer Intern at Tencent2024-2024
  • Software Engineer Intern at Alibaba Group2023-2023
Education
  • Duke UniversityMEng
  • The University of Hong Kong
  • UC Berkeley

Ben Liang Yang

Co-founder & CEO
Left
Huawei
Vice President, Financial Services Business Unit, Enterprise Group
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Vice President, Financial Services Business Unit, Enterprise Group at Huawei2019-2021 · left Mar 2021
  • Head of Strategy, EMEA and SKA at TiDB, powered by PingCAP2021-2022
  • VP Sales at Huawei Enterprise USA Inc.2017-2019
  • VP of Cloud/Data Center Sales at Huawei2007-2017
Education
  • Chongqing University of Post and TelecommunicationsBachelor's

Zafeirios Fountas

Co-Founder
Left
Huawei
Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader
Before that
Went stealthSep 2026
Work
  • Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader at Huawei2020-2026 · left Jan 2026
  • Honorary research fellow at UCL2018-2021
  • Founding member, research scientist at Emotech2015-2020
  • Visiting lecturer at Royal College of Art2018-2019
  • Part-time lecturing at Imperial College London2012-2019
  • Founding member at Pandora Robotics2006-2010
Education
  • Imperial College LondonMS
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)BS
  • City University (GB)

Valentin Gourmet

Co-Founder
Left
Huawei
Master Thesis: Change Point Detection using Bio-inspired Temporal Variational Autoencoders
Before that
Went stealthSep 2026
Work
  • Master Thesis: Change Point Detection using Bio-inspired Temporal Variational Autoencoders at Huawei2022-2022 · left Sep 2022
  • Applied Scientist at Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios2022-2025
  • Computer Vision Engineer at Deep Forestry2020-2021
  • Machine Learning Research Engineer at ManoMotion2019-2020
  • Team Leader at Arm2018-2018
  • Summer Internship at EDF R&D2017-2017
Education
  • University College London (UCL)MS
  • KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMEng
  • Imperial College LondonMEng

David Felipe Niño Romero

Founder & Builder
Left
Huawei
Project Controller Manager Intern
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Project Controller Manager Intern at Huawei2019-2019 · left Aug 2019
  • Full Stack Engineer at Workera2021-2026
  • Full Stack Engineer at PROTECCIÓN S.A.2021-2021
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at Universidad de Los Andes2019-2020
  • Visiting Scientist at CSIRO2020-2020
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at Universidad de Los Andes2018-2018
Education
  • Universidad de los AndesBE
  • Colegio Franciscano del Virrey Solís

Harmanpreet Singh

Co-Founder
Left
Huawei
Autonomous Driving Researcher
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Autonomous Driving Researcher at Huawei2020-2021 · left Apr 2021
  • Entrepreneur in Residence at Antler2026-2026
  • AI Research Scientist at LG AI Research2021-2026
  • Mila Ventures Startup Fellow at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute2019-2026
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at Université de Montréal2020-2020
  • Machine Learning Engineer at Bose Corporation2020-2020
  • Senior AI R&D Engineer, AdvTech at Honeywell Technologies2016-2019
Education
  • McGill UniversityMS
  • Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadBTech
  • Mila

Yogendra Kumar

Founder & Principal Engineer
Left
Huawei
Software Engineer
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Software Engineer at Huawei2011-2013 · left Mar 2013
  • Staff Software Engineer at Google2025-2026
  • Principal Member of Technical Staff at Oracle2024-2025
  • Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon2013-2024
Education
  • Harcourt Butler Technological InstituteBTech

Ali S.

Founder
Left
Huawei
Research Engineer
Before that
Went stealthMar 2026
Work
  • Research Engineer at Huawei2016-2017 · left Jul 2017
  • Member of Technical Staff at The Voleon Group2017-2026
  • Co-Founder at Treata Smart Solutions2014-2017
  • Researcher at University of Toronto2010-2016
  • Software Engineer at Google2014-2014
  • Co-Founder at Farabord2002-2008
Education
  • University of TorontoPhD

Nash Liu

Founder
Left
Huawei
Software Engineer
Before that
Went stealthJan 2026
Work
  • Software Engineer at Huawei2017-2020 · left Jun 2020
  • Principal Software Engineer ｜ BNB Chain Core Infrastructure at NodeReal Inc2021-2025
  • Senior Software Engineer at Pinduoduo2020-2021
Education
  • Zhejiang UniversityMS
  • Zhejiang UniversityBS

Kexin Zhang

Co-Founder
Left
Huawei
Junior Analyst
Before that
Went stealthJan 2016
Work
  • Junior Analyst at Huawei2006-2006 · left Sep 2006
  • Strategy Consultant at Baseline Ventures2017-2019
  • Senior Credit Risk Analyst at East West Bank2014-2015
  • Senior Analyst at China International Capital Corporation (CICC)2007-2013
Education
  • Stanford UniversityMBA
  • Tsinghua UniversityBachelor's

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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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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.