Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

Early Stage Founders (poach.vc)

(0143) robotics, defense tech, and stealth

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Dec 17, 2025
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Early Stage Founders

  • Nitin Panwar (California)

    • Staff Engineer at Freshworks and Technical Architect at Info Edge, now co-founding a stealth startup. Previously worked at Intel and Samsung in technical roles.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Pranav Iyer (New York)

    • Princeton AI & Robotics grad who previously worked on robotics at DARPA and clinical AI at Cleveland Clinic. Now founding a consumer health + biotech startup focused on building a new annual physical.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

  • Shail Giroux (El Segundo)

    • Co-founder of a defense tech stealth startup. Previously researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and worked at Covariant, an AI robotics company.

    • Twitter / LinkedIn

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