Get an API key 12 founders who worked at VMware started a company in stealth in the last 15 weeks.
Founder CEO at VMware2004-2012 · left Apr 2012
Founder & Chairman of Board at NetScaler1997-2003
Chief Architect, Head of Internet clustering, CTO's Office, at Sun Microsystems1996-1997
Harvard University
Pune Institute of Computer TechnologyBE
University of California, Santa Cruz
Socialcast Director of Engineering/ Cloud Foundry Evangelist at VMware2010-2012 · left Sep 2012Software Engineering Manager at Figma2024-2026Staff Technical Lead Manager at Slack2016-2024Integration Platform Leader at The Honest Company2015-2016Senior Director of Engineering at Crushpath2012-2015
Open Web Standards Program Manager at Meta2010-2010
Senior Software Architect at Myspace2007-2010
The Ohio State UniversityBS
Universidad de LimaR&D Manager at VMware2006-2011 · left Jul 2011
Head Of Engineering at PhonePe2022-2026
Engineering Manager at WhatsApp2019-2022Software Engineer at Meta2014-2019
Engineering Ion at Little Eye Labs2013-2014
University of Southern CaliforniaMS
Netaji Subhas Institute of TechnologyBE
Mobile Applications Development Lead at VMware2012-2016 · left Feb 2016Senior Staff Engineer/Senior Engineering Manager at GE Vernova2017-2025Director, Software Engineering at Dell Technologies2006-2012
Account Manager, Team Leader at TTI Telecom1998-2000
Developer/Team Leader at Deutsche Bank1997-1998
Birkbeck, University of LondonMS
Ben-Gurion University of the NegevBAStaff Engineer at VMware2021-2023 · left Nov 2023
R&D Software Engineer 5 (Principle Engineer) at Broadcom2021-2025Principal Software Engineer at Dell Technologies2017-2021
Software Designer V at Hewlett Packard Enterprise2014-2017
Technical Lead at Symphony Teleca2011-2014
R&D Software Engineer at Nokia2008-2011
Software Engineer at Sasken Technologies Limited2008-2008
BITS PilaniPG DiplomaBITS PilaniM. S.
Dharmsinh Desai Institute of TechnologyBachelor'sSr. Director, PS CoE at VMware2013-2016 · left May 2016
VP of Engineering at Alcatraz2023-2026
Technical Advisor at IncentivAI2023-2026
Angel Investor at SessionStack2019-2025
Technical Advisor at nFuse2024-2025
Technical Advisor at Taylor & Hart2023-2025
Chief Technology Officer at DesignTechnologies2022-2023
Sofia University St. Kliment OhridskiBSVP, Brand and Advertising at VMware2014-2021 · left Dec 2021
VP of Corporate Marketing at Cloudflare2021-2026
VP of Strategy and Planning at gyro2010-2014
Partner at Zoe Street2008-2010
VP of Marketing at NetBooks, Inc.2007-2008
President at Bravo! Marketing1995-2006
UC Berkeley
Director of Engineering, VMware Cloud on AWS at VMware at VMware2020-2021 · left Jan 2021Co-Founder, CTO, Head of Engineering/AI at Trumio Inc.2023-2026Director of Engineering at Samsung Research America (SRA)2022-2023Senior Director of Engineering, Cortana and Azure Cognitive Services at Microsoft1999-2020
Senior Lead Software Engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment1996-1998
Senior Software Development Engineer at River Run Software Group Inc1996-1996
IIT KharagpurB Tech
Sr. Director of Product Management, Software-Defined Data Center Suites and OpenStack at VMware2012-2015 · left Jan 2015VP and Group General Manager, Digital Ecosystem at Nubank2024-2026Chief Product Officer at Kueski2023-2024Startup Mentor at Endeavor2022-2024Product Lead, Latin America at Stripe2021-2022Product Director, Ad Delivery Platform at Meta2020-2020
Director of Product Management, Advertising Platforms at Google2015-2019
University of PennsylvaniaMBA
University of PennsylvaniaMA
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de MonterreyBSMTS3 at VMware2016-2020 · left Feb 2020
Principal Applied AI Engineer - Payhawk Agents at Payhawk2022-2026
Software Development Engineer || at Amazon2020-2022
Sofia UniversityBachelor'sSenior Software Engineer at VMware2015-2021 · left Jul 2021
Senior Engineering Manager at Rippling2022-2026
Principal Software Engineer at OneTrust2021-2022
Software Development Engineer 2 at Workspace ONE2014-2015
Senior Software Engineer at Philips2011-2014
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
Manipal Institute of TechnologyBESenior Solution Architect at VMware2010-2016 · left Sep 2016
Chief Product Architect/PMM - Cloud App Marketplace at Tencent Cloud2022-2026
Senior Product/Partner Marketing Manager at Nutanix2016-2022
Systems Engineer/Consultant at Symantec2010-2010
Arizona State UniversityMaster'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.