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National Institute of Technology Karnataka alumni who just went stealth

11 National Institute of Technology Karnataka alumni started a company in stealth in the last 1783 weeks.

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Ayush Bisoyi

Founder
Left
Team Hypernix
Founder, Hypernix Green Project (HGP)
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Founder, Hypernix Green Project (HGP) at Team Hypernix2024-2026 · until Oct 2026
  • Ambassador to Career Guidance, School Student Council 2025-26 at Private International English School2012-2026
  • Engineer Intern at The Aska Cooperative Sugar Industries Limited2025-2025
  • Information Technology Intern at Hero MotoCorp2025-2025
  • Observer at Lifecare Hospital2024-2024
  • Chief Editor & Founder - Quarterly School Hindi Magazine: 'Pratyush - Ek Nayi Subah' at Private International English School2022-2024
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBTech
  • Private International English Schhol

Sagar Bharadwaj K S

Co-Founder
Left
Microsoft
Research Fellow
Before that
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Research Fellow at Microsoft2019-2021 · left Jul 2021
  • PHD Student at Carnegie Mellon University2021-2026
  • Intern at Netflix2022-2024
  • Mozilla - Google Summer of Code Student at Google Summer of Code2018-2018
  • Software Development Intern at Intuit2018-2018
  • Software Engineering Intern at Samsung Electronics2017-2017
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBTech
  • Carnegie Mellon UniversityPhD

Vedant Swami

Co-Founder
Left
SageDraft
Co-Founder
Before thatNone listed
Went stealthOct 2026
Work
  • Co-Founder at SageDraft2024-2025 · left Jul 2025
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBTech

Ayush Mundhra

Founder
Left
CustomerInsights.AI
Leadership Team
Before that
Went stealthSep 2026
Work
  • Leadership Team at CustomerInsights.AI2023-2026 · left Aug 2026
  • Manager, Consultant, Associate Consultant, Associate at ZS2012-2023
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBTech
  • University of PennsylvaniaMBA

Akshat Gupta

Co-Founder
Left
Karta
AI Product Management intern
Before thatNone listed
Went stealthAug 2026
Work
  • AI Product Management intern at Karta2026-2026 · left Jul 2026
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBTech

Prabhat Agarwal

Founder
Left
ADA
Chief of Data and AI
Before that
Went stealthLaunched zerOm AI Technologies
Work
  • Chief of Data and AI at ADA2023-2026 · left Apr 2026
  • Founder at dhiOmics2017-2024
  • Apprentice Leader at Mu Sigma Inc.2015-2017
  • Co-Founder at HCLTech2006-2015
  • Senior Design Engineer at Infineon Tchnologies AG2004-2006
  • Design Engineer at NXP Semiconductors2001-2004
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBE

Maruthi Mukkannaiah

Co-Founder
Left
iota Biosciences, Inc. powered by Astellas
Research and Development Group Lead
Before that
Went stealthAug 2026
Work
  • Research and Development Group Lead at iota Biosciences, Inc. powered by Astellas2021-2026 · left Jul 2026
  • Analog Design Engineer - Kilby Labs R&D at Texas Instruments2019-2021
  • Co-Founder & Battery/Power system Architect at NITK - STEP (Business Incubator for Early stage start-up)2015-2017
  • Senior Analog Design Engineer - PMIC at Cadence2012-2015
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBachelor's
  • Arizona State UniversityMaster's
  • Indian Institute of ScienceInternship

Anurag Ranjan

Founder & CEO
Left
Deepnight
Chief Scientist
Before that
Went stealthAug 2026
Work
  • Chief Scientist at Deepnight2024-2026 · left May 2026
  • Research scientist at Apple2020-2024
  • Research Intern at NVIDIA2018-2018
  • Research Intern at Meta2017-2017
  • Software Developer at MashUp Machine Inc.2015-2015
  • Research Assistant at The University of British Columbia2013-2015
  • Research Intern at Polytechnique Montréal2012-2012
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBTech
  • Max Planck Institute for Intelligent SystemsPhD
  • The University of British ColumbiaMS

Nitin Rao

Founder
Left
Cloudflare
Interim Chief Product Officer
Before that
Went stealthJul 2026
Work
  • Interim Chief Product Officer at Cloudflare2013-2025 · left Jul 2025
  • Co-founder at Sunglass2011-2013
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBTech
  • MITMBA

Sangamesh Kalbemullge

Co-Founder
Left
Palo Alto Networks
Software Engineer
Before that
Went stealthFeb 2026
Work
  • Software Engineer at Palo Alto Networks2023-2025 · left Jan 2025
  • Engineer Intern at Cisco2022-2022
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBTech

Vinaya Sathyanarayana

Founder
Left
MYRA School of Business
CyberSecurity Consultant
Before that
Went stealthJan 2025
Work
  • CyberSecurity Consultant at MYRA School of Business2024-2025 · until Feb 2025
  • FSI Principal Solution Architect at Amazon2022-2023
  • Solution Architect and Delivery Head at CLARISITY Solutions2021-2022
  • Cloud Solutions Industry Architect at Oracle2019-2020
  • VP Product Management at SociallyGood.com (Soczen Technologies)2018-2019
  • Co-Founder & CTO at FinFort InfoTech LLP2017-2018
  • Lab Manager - Software Lab @ Xerox Research Center India at Xerox2013-2017
Education
  • National Institute of Technology KarnatakaBTech
  • IIM BangaloreMBA
  • ICFAI Distance Education

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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.