people search for a list. the honest starting point is that a complete one is impossible, because a company in stealth has not registered itself anywhere a list could be built from.
what follows is the next best thing: what has actually been flagged, with dates, and where it came from.
the current state
2,549 people flagged building in stealth. 896 rate strong, meaning the building claim held up against verified career evidence. 143 previous employers have produced three or more.
the 64% that do not clear the bar are the useful part of that ratio. it is roughly the false-positive rate you should assume for any stealth list that has not been filtered.
by previous employer
| previous company | founders flagged in stealth |
|---|---|
| Meta | 69 |
| 68 | |
| Microsoft | 65 |
| Amazon | 47 |
| Apple | 41 |
| OpenAI | 26 |
| Uber | 19 |
| Tesla | 18 |
| Google DeepMind | 18 |
| Coinbase | 17 |
raw counts favour the largest employers, which is not interesting on its own. the rate is: openai at 26 from a few thousand people is an order of magnitude more founder-dense than microsoft at 65 from 220,000.
every one of the 143, with dates, at founders building in stealth, by where they came from.
the named lineups
individual founders are published only after review, one at a time:
- 15 founders building in stealth, september 2026
- ex-OpenAI, xAI and DeepMind founders building in stealth
the receipts
a list is only worth reading if the dates survive checking.
jacob zietek published on a public lineup august 19 2026. ixian robotics announced a pre-seed from a16z and accel 21 days later. full timeline.
munari first signal july 16 2026, when a tracked investor followed the founder. the X account went live 47 days later, at 6 followers.
both dates are public on both sides, which is the only standard that means anything here.
why the full roster is not downloadable
we hold 2,478 judged rows and publish counts, not names.
the people in that set are private deliberately, and most will eventually build something worth backing. publishing all of them would work against the people the lane exists to serve. the judged rows with evidence stay in the product.
related
open source deal flow
companies and founders surfaced on frontrun. curated, every week.
