Company Launch Tracker #76
Tesla alum builds robotic pitstops for autonomous fleets, Clearbit co-founder builds a data-cleaning layer for Procore, & Ex-Amazon ML engineer builds an AI company brain for engineering teams
Company Launch Tracker is a real-time feed for investors, founders, and tech enthusiasts who want to spot startups the moment they launch. We leverage the technology built at Gravity to track billions of data points and surface company debuts the instant they happen. These signals include founder “I’m excited to announce…” posts, company filings, job changes, product hunt launches, and early press mentions—all stitched together into a single stream of what’s new.
In this issue of the Company Launch Tracker, here is what we will uncover:
Ex-Tesla engineer and founder of Pushme (acquired by TIER Mobility) launches robotic pitstops for autonomous vehicle fleets
Co-founder of Clearbit (acquired by HubSpot) building a spreadsheet layer on Procore to clean and sync messy construction data
Ex-Palantir and Amazon ML engineer building a company brain for engineering teams
Co-creator of CryptoKitties and VP of Product at Dapper Labs launches semi-stealth startup
And more…
Here’s the rundown of new company activity… 🚀🚀🚀
🚀Recent Company Launches
Early visibility into the launches most people won’t hear about until months later.
George Kalligeros - Co-Founder & CEO at Aseon Labs
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CEO at Pushme (acquired by TIER Mobility), VP Commercial & Strategy at Dragonfly, VP Hardware at TIER Mobility, Mechanical Design Engineer at Tesla
Aseon Labs builds robotic pitstops for autonomous vehicle fleets. A depot-in-a-box systems for charging, cleaning, and inspecting self-driving cars directly in operating zones.
HQ: Redwood City, California, United States
Industry: Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles, Fleet Infrastructure | Team Size: 2
Harlow Ward - Founder at Sandspit
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Prior Exit
Prior Experience: Co-Founder & CTO at Clearbit (acquired by HubSpot), Principal Engineer at HubSpot, Platform Architect at HotelTonight (acquired by Airbnb), VP Engineering at Bills.com
Sandspit is a spreadsheet layer on top of Procore that turns messy construction inputs — T&M invoices, submittals, RFIs, and spreadsheets — into a reviewable, bulk-editable grid, catching bad data early and syncing clean records back to Procore.
HQ: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Industry: ConTech, Construction Software, B2B SaaS
Tristan Matthews - Founder, CTO, President at Chipper
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Doctorate Degree, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: Sr. Director of Software Engineering at GRAIL, VP Engineering at Synthego
Chipper deploys autonomous AI agents for life-science operations, continuously ingesting instrument logs to predict failures, flag anomalies, and optimize performance across R&D labs, biofoundries, diagnostics, and biomanufacturing facilities.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Life Sciences, AI Agents, Lab Automation | Team Size: 4
Ashwarye Yadav - Co-Founder at Probe
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Former FAANG, Top 10 University, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir, Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon, Machine Learning Engineer at Rippling
Connect on: LinkedIn
Probe is a company brain for engineering teams that gives AI agents the codebase context and intent to resolve bugs and assist with on-call, feature development, and code review workflows.
HQ: San Francisco, California, United States
Industry: Developer Tools, AI Agents, Software Engineering | Team Size: 3
Ravi Darda - Co-Founder at SecondDesk AI
FounderDNA: Technical Founder, Masters Degree, Top 10 University
Prior Experience: VP of Operations at HOVER, Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, MBA at Dartmouth Tuck
SecondDesk builds AI agents for healthcare recruiting teams, helping health systems and agencies discover, qualify, and engage physicians faster across a database of 1.1M+ US physicians.
HQ: Austin, Texas, United States
Industry: HealthTech, HR Tech, AI Agents | Team Size: 2
Arthur C. - Founder at Alvo Lab
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Masters Degree
Prior Experience: VP of Product at Dapper Labs, CEO at Toby, Co-creator & Product Lead at CryptoKitties, Product & Engineering at Axiom Zen
Connect on: LinkedIn
Alvo Lab is a semi-stealth startup with their thesis: the bottleneck in building products is no longer engineering — it’s vision.
HQ: Seattle, Washington, United States
Industry: Technology, Information and Media | Team Size: 2
James Cheseldine - Co-Founder & CEO at Stride World
FounderDNA: Serial Founder, Technical Founder, Former FAANG
Prior Experience: Senior Product Development & GTM Lead at Meta, VP Product Management at Trustpilot, Founder at JayCee Chocolates, Product Partnerships Lead at blinkbox
Stride World continuously benchmarks CRM data against a validated market view, using AI agents to surface missing, wrong, or outdated records most likely to affect routing, segmentation, pricing, and pipeline quality — then syncs recommended fixes into existing GTM systems.
HQ: London Area, United Kingdom
Industry: Sales Intelligence, CRM Data, Revenue Operations | Team Size: 2
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