This edition of Signals by Evertrace features three new companies and three experienced founders building in stealth.
New companies
ChampionEffect — Kevin Law
ChampionEffect is building software to help employees use AI at work. Its tools turn the experience of internal AI champions into coaching for the wider team and help companies track adoption.
Kevin Law previously co-founded Cambly, the online English-learning company and a member of Y Combinator’s Winter 2014 batch.
Outerlimit — Neil Larkins
Outerlimit is building security and authorization tools for AI agents. Its software checks what an agent is allowed to do when it uses a tool, giving companies more control over how agents interact with their systems.
Founder and COO Neil Larkins previously co-founded Egress, where he also served as COO.
Spright AI — Tanner Lacey
Spright AI is building AI software for finance and revenue teams, covering quoting, contracts, billing and revenue recognition.
Tanner Lacey co-founded the company with Jeron Paul. Lacey previously co-founded Spiff and worked in sales and partnerships at Sendoso.
Founders building in stealth
Ian Pratt
Ian Pratt is working in stealth after a career spanning research, company building and enterprise security. He holds a Cambridge PhD and co-founded XenSource and Bromium.
Most recently, he was VP, Security & Commercial Systems CTO at HP, before announcing his departure.
Prithvi Rai
Prithvi Rai is working in stealth following Borneo, the company he founded that was acquired by Atlassian.
His background also includes security and engineering leadership at Facebook and Uber.
Ray Zhou
Ray Zhou, co-founder and former co-CEO of Affinity, is working in stealth. He helped build Affinity’s relationship-intelligence platform and studied computer science at Stanford.
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