Get an API key 11 founders who worked at NASA started a company in stealth in the last 15 weeks.
Data Science Researcher at NASA2020-2020 · left Aug 2020
Software Developer III at Paycom2025-2026
Software Engineer at S&P Global2024-2024
Athletics Referee at Rice University2023-2024
Product Developer / Manager at RiceApps2021-2024
Software Developer / Data Analyst at Calpine2023-2023Live Instructor at Rice University2022-2022Rice UniversityBachelor's
Yonsei UniversityCompletion of NASA Mission Concept Academy at NASA2023-2024 · left Feb 2024
Engineering Program Management Intern at Apple2025-2026
Module Engineer Intern at Intel2025-2025
Undergraduate Student Researcher, Razdan Group at University of California, Berkeley2024-2025
Member at AIChE - UC Berkeley Chapter2024-2025
Vice President of Peer Friendship, Phi Theta Kappa Society, Beta Nu Eta Chapter at Citrus College2023-2024Student Assistant, Physical and Health Science Department at Citrus College2023-2023UC BerkeleyBSCitrus College
Diocesan Boys' SchoolScientific Programmer at NASA2010-2011 · left May 2011
XR Audio Software Engineer at Google2022-2026
PhD Researcher, AI Wearables at University of Washington2019-2025Audio Products Firmware Engineer at Apple2016-2022
Web Design Team Lead and Advisor at Innovative Design2012-2015University of WashingtonPhDUC BerkeleyBSNASA Accelerator at NASA2024-2025 · left May 2025
Engineer at NEXT Diagnostics, Inc.2024-2026
Manufacturing Design Engineer - Optimus at Tesla2026-2026
Clinical Researcher - Quarter at Aggie Square at UC Davis Health2025-2025
Neural Researcher @ Z-Lab at University of California, Davis2025-2025
I-Corp at National Science Foundation (NSF)2025-2025
Accelerator Champion [S25] at Plasma at UC Davis2025-2025UC DavisBS
Georgia TechBachelor's
College of Marin
Deputy Program Manager of the Communications Support Services Center (CSSC) at NASA2009-2013 · left Aug 2013Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) at FinStrat Management2025-2026Advisory Board Member at onHue2023-2026President, AmenityLinc at The Amenity Collective2020-2024
Senior Manager, Digital Strategy and Experience at TEKsystems2019-2020
Senior Digital Strategist at Brown Advisory2014-2018
The Johns Hopkins UniversityMBA
Full Sail UniversityBSFull Sail UniversityRock & Roll at NASA2025-2026 · until Oct 2026
Founder at The Bridge2026-2026
NVIDIA Developer Program at NVIDIA2026-2026
Emergent Ventures Grantee at Mercatus Center at George Mason University2026-2026
Founder at Sohao Space2026-2026
NASA Space Apps Ankara Team Leader at NASA International Space Apps Challenge2025-2025
Honorary Reporter at Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism2024-2024
International Space University
Ankara ÜniversitesiBS
Sınav Eğitim KurumlarıElectrical Systems Engineer at NASA2024-2024 · left Aug 2024
Founder at Stalk2026-2026
Founder at Ray & Co. Risk Advisors2024-2026
Harvard Business SchoolMBA
Penn State University
Solutions & Technical Innovation Deployment - NASA at NASA2024-2025 · left Jan 2025Co-Founder, CTO at Cortif Technologies2025-2026Co-Founder at Lumi2024-2026Co-Founder at Zof AI2025-2025Instructor at University of California, Berkeley2024-2025
Young Professionals Director at UNA-USA East Bay2023-2024
Board Member at International House at UC Berkeley2023-2024
Stanford UniversityUC BerkeleyMaster's
University of St.GallenBachelor'sAutomations Engineer at NASA2022-2022 · left Aug 2022
Co-Founder and CTO at Storke2025-2026
Entrepreneur in Residence at Redwood Founders2025-2025Co-Founder at Storke2025-2025
STEM Team Member at Qsium2024-2025
Founding Automations Engineer at Sophos Education2024-2024
Top 5 Nationalist at The British Physics Olympiad2022-2022
University of CambridgeBA
Queens' College, CambridgeBA
Aeronautical Engineer, Aeromechanics Laboratory at NASA2017-2017 · left Jun 2017Principal Machine Learning Engineer I at McKinsey & Company2021-2026Data Scientist at Stockholm Exergi2019-2021Data Scientist at GKN Aerospace2017-2019Teaching Assistant - AA210 Engineering statics at University of Washington2016-2016University of WashingtonMS
Chalmers University of TechnologyBS
Senior Computer Aided Design Designer for AIAA/NASA project at NASA2026-2026 · left May 2026Computer Aided Design Design Engineer at AIAA2026-2026Student Researcher at AIAA2025-2026Computer Aided Design Operator at National Space Society2026-2026
Alliance Academy for InnovationCrustdata 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.