Stealth Founders
Discovering tomorrow’s PayPal Mafia Today
Stripe
+10
Feb 27, 2026
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5 min read
2.27.26 - Top Founders of the Week
Co-Founders of Cursor, Freeform, Fluidstack, Orum; creators of Stripe Checkout/Atlas/Connect/Dashboard; Playco CTO & Statsig founding engineer
Stripe
+2
Feb 25, 2026
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10 min read
2.26.26 - The Stripe Mafia (Pt. 2)
Stripe-acquired repeat founder, CISO, Head of AI Development; Notion's 5th engineer; Anthropic and OpenAI alums; and 10+ repeat founders backed by Index, GC, and YC
Stripe
+3
Feb 24, 2026
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12 min read
2.25.26 - The Stripe Mafia
GM for Connect & Global Payments (ran ~90% of Stripe P&L); Head of Applied ML; creators of Checkout, Atlas, Dashboard & Corporate Card; Atlas partnerships lead; Billing VP Eng; and founders behind Clearbit, Orum, Cocoon, Bouncer, Aqueduct, Payable and Cursor
Freeform
+15
Feb 22, 2026
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6 min read
2.23.26 - Fluidstack Founders, IQM’s CFO & a Freeform Co-Founder from SpaceX
Co-Founder & President @ Freeform, Co-Founders @ Fluidstack, SVP Product @ Cross River (GC-backed Founder of Seed); 0→€200M+ finance lead @ IQM
Sante
+18
Feb 19, 2026
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8 min read
2.20.26 - Top Founders of the Week
Head of ML at PolyAI, Stash’s co-founder post-sale, Lily Robotics and Jyve repeat founders, and Grafana’s post-acquisition builders
Moonshot
+1
Feb 19, 2026
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2 min read
2.19.26 - Early Moonshot Researcher and ex Venture Fellows from Slash
Stripe Mafia next week. Essential AI, Pear Garage, and Z-Fellow product and engineering talent from Slash, plus an early Moonshot LLM researcher.
