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(0134) founders building stealth ai + robotics startups

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Nov 14, 2025
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Early Stage Founders

  • Avnish Sachar (Cambridge)

    • Ex-Amazon Robotics engineer (motion planning & perception) now founding a stealth startup in advanced manufacturing.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Kelsey Pool (San Francisco)

    • Serial robotics entrepreneur and co-founder of a stealth robotics startup focused on building general purpose robots. Previously founded Bright Block and co-founded Zeroth Bot.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Ganesh Balaji (San Bruno)

    • Former Staff Product Manager at Freshworks and Head of Platforms Product at DevRev, now co-founder of strivelabs.ai building AI marketing agents.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

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