(0101) Serial Founders and Ex-Big Tech Leaders Building in Stealth Mode

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People

• Grant Aarons (London)

  • Forbes 30 under 30 founder who built FabricNano from 2018 to 2025, now working on a new stealth startup. Also an active biotech angel investor.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Taha Biyikli (California)

  • Carnegie Mellon CS grad and security researcher at HackerOne, competed in CTFs with PPP/MMM teams. Previously led a team at a cybersecurity company, now co-founder & CEO of a stealth startup. Z Fellows recipient working on security and reinforcement learning.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn

• Tanmay Jain (United Kingdom)

  • Product Manager at major tech companies (Canva, Atlassian, Amazon) turned founder. Built Qwokka which won Apple App of the Year and ProductHunt Golden Kitty award. Now co-founder of Gala, building AI agents for Meta/TikTok ads.

  • Twitter / LinkedIn