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New Companies & Stealth Founders: 28 Oct 2026

Simon Bøttkjær
Co-founder
Blobfish AI, Third Watch, Perlumis, Zuzanna Brzosko, Volkan Gurses and Luc Delsalle: Signals by Evertrace, 28 October 2026

This edition of Signals by Evertrace features Blobfish AI, Third Watch and Perlumis, alongside three people building in stealth across the United States and France.

New companies

Blobfish AI — Johnny Chien

Blobfish AI is building reinforcement learning environments for frontier AI labs. The company focuses on the environments used to train and evaluate AI systems.

San Francisco-based co-founder Johnny Chien previously co-founded Goodfin, where he served as CTO. His engineering background includes lead software engineering roles at Google and Amazon.

Third Watch — Fabián Gómez Gutiérrez

Third Watch helps AI labs identify and address model performance gaps in Latin America. Its approach combines privacy-focused data environments with independent measurement of model improvements.

Mexico City-based co-founder Fabián Gómez Gutiérrez previously founded Frubana and worked on expansion at Rappi. He is a Y Combinator alumnus and previously worked at McKinsey.

Perlumis — Matt Gibb

Perlumis is developing navigation and guidance technology for endoscopic and robotic surgery. Its Cystal Clear project aims to help surgeons see which areas of the bladder they have inspected during a procedure.

Singapore-based co-founder and CEO Matt Gibb holds a DPhil from Oxford. He previously co-founded Innersight Labs and LendLayer, and worked as Spatial Computing Lead at KARL STORZ.

Founders building in stealth

Zuzanna Brzosko

Zuzanna Brzosko is working in stealth in the United States as CBO and CFO. She holds a PhD from Cambridge, co-founded Sixfold Bioscience and is a Y Combinator alumna. Her background includes business development at Eli Lilly and a Chief Business Officer role at Integrated Biosciences.

Volkan Gurses

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Volkan Gurses is working in stealth. He holds a PhD from Caltech and has held research roles at Caltech, MIT and NVIDIA, including a visiting researcher position at NVIDIA.

Luc Delsalle

Luc Delsalle is a stealth co-founder and CEO based in France. He previously co-founded Alsid as CTO and served as VP of Engineering at Tenable. His background also includes a CTO role at Ailevate and security auditing at ANSSI.

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