Get an API key 14 founders who worked at Yahoo started a company in stealth in the last 1783 weeks.
Senior Paranoid Yahoo at Yahoo2004-2007 · left Dec 2007
Kernel Software Engineer at Hudson River Trading2008-2014
Senior Software Engineer at Nominum2002-2004
Senior Member of Technical Staff at Wind River1995-2001
Yale UniversityPhD
Northeastern UniversityBSStaff Software Engineer, Tech Lead at Yahoo2021-2022 · left May 2022
Co-founder & CTO at Lattice2023-2026
Principal Software Engineer at Kinetic2024-2026
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Prism2022-2023
Software Engineer, UI at Meta2020-2021
Software Engineer, Front End at Silicon Valley Bank2019-2020
Founding Engineer at SpotMeSolutions2018-2019
Research Scientist / Principal Engineer - Ads, Personalization and ML Infra at Yahoo2014-2017 · left Jun 2017AI Fellow (Sr Dir+) at Walmart2025-2026Head of Personalization and Shopping AI at Uber2021-2025Engineering Leader, Facebook Ads & Applied ML at Meta2017-2021Machine Learning Research Engineer at Networked Insights2013-2014
Doctoral Researcher at Wisconsin Institute for Discovery2010-2013
Software Engineer at Center for Dairy Research2004-2010
University of Wisconsin-MadisonPhDUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonMSSr. Product Manager (Yahoo! Video) at Yahoo2006-2010 · left Jan 2010
Founding Team - Viven AI at Eightfold AI2016-2025
Director of Engineering at Samsung Electronics America2013-2016
Principal Architect, WebOS at HP2012-2013
Principal Architect at ServiceNow2011-2012
IIT MadrasBachelor's
Seth Godin's altMBA
UC BerkeleyiOS Software Engineer at Yahoo2016-2018 · left Apr 2018Staff Software Engineer at Meta2018-2026
iOS Developer at ZineOne2014-2015
UC San DiegoBSSenior Frontend Engineer at Yahoo2009-2012 · left May 2012
Senior iOS Engineer at Included Health2022-2026
Senior Staff iOS Engineer at Dexcom2016-2022
iOS Engineer at Tango2015-2016
Developer at PayPal2013-2014
Michigan State University
Director of Product Design at Yahoo2023-2026 · left Jan 2026Director of Product Design at SPAN2022-2023Head of UX at Molekule2018-2021Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer at SKEW consulting2002-2020Engineering@Yahoo at Yahoo2007-2011 · left Aug 2011
Co-Founder at Dream Play2025-2026
CTO at Dream Sports2016-2026
Engineering@Netflix at Netflix2011-2016
SAP Consultant at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech2003-2004
Santa Clara UniversityMBA
University of Massachusetts DartmouthMSDir Eng at Yahoo2003-2007 · left Nov 2007
VP of Engineering at Paxos2021-2022Engineering Director at Meta2013-2021
VP Engineering at Polyvore2012-2013
VP of Engineering at Marketcetera, Inc.2008-2009
TechnionMSTechnionBS
Software Engineer at Yahoo2014-2016 · left Apr 2016Staff AI Software Engineer at Mutiny2019-2026Senior Software Engineer at Elastic2017-2019Software Engineer at Swiftype (an Elastic company)2016-2017Software Engineer at BrightRoll2014-2014UC BerkeleyBS
Head of Global Information Security at Yahoo2000-2011 · left May 2011Head of Atlassian Guard Premium at Atlassian2025-2026Founder & CEO - Acquired by Atlassian at Borneo (Acquired by Atlassian)2020-2026Senior Director of Engineering & Head of Global Security at Uber2016-2019Head of Global Security (ex-US) at Meta2011-2016Research Scientist at Yahoo2008-2012 · left May 2012
Head of Data Science and Data Engineering at Entrix2024-2025Senior ML Engineer at Meta2023-2024
Head of Data Management and Data Analytics at BMW Group2016-2023
Expert at European Commission2013-2017
Principal Research Scientist at eBay2012-2016
AI specialist at Loop.AI - The AI Agents Platform2013-2014
University of Rome Tor VergataPhDUniversity of Rome Tor VergataMSTechnical Yahoo at Yahoo2007-2008 · left Oct 2008
Eng Leader, Rippling at Rippling2023-2024Engineering Leader, Instagram Ads at Meta2020-2023
Co-Founder, CEO at AVOCADO >2016-2020
Co-founder, CTO at Chocolate Platform2008-2016
Sr Software Engineer at EFI2001-2006
Stanford UniversityMaster's
IIT KanpurBTech
Automation Engineer at Equinix2015-2024
San José State UniversityMSCrustdata 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.