Niko Ustin

CS @ Stanford | Founder @ Stealth | Z-Fellow

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 1 investments📅 1 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2025
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Angel Investor
Aug 2025
Stealth AI Startup is an independent initiative focused on founders building AI companies before public launch. We explore the earliest stages of building an AI startup—from testing an idea and finding collaborators to assembling a team and preparing to launch. Our focus: • Founder experiences and lessons from building in stealth • Emerging AI technologies and startup trends • Perspectives from founders, researchers, engineers and investors • Practical learning for the journey from idea to launch We believe founders can exchange knowledge and build meaningful professional connections while keeping their products and plans confidential. This is the official LinkedIn Page of the Stealth AI Startup initiative. It represents our initiative, rather than the separate companies built by founders who follow it. Following or engaging with this page does not, by itself, establish employment, partnership or endorsement. Follow us for perspectives on building AI companies and updates from our initiative. Visit us at https://www.stealthaistartup.online/
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2025
Angel Investor
Aug 2025
Stealth AI Startup is an independent initiative focused on founders building AI companies before public launch. We explore the earliest stages of building an AI startup—from testing an idea and finding collaborators to assembling a team and preparing to launch. Our focus: • Founder experiences and lessons from building in stealth • Emerging AI technologies and startup trends • Perspectives from founders, researchers, engineers and investors • Practical learning for the journey from idea to launch We believe founders can exchange knowledge and build meaningful professional connections while keeping their products and plans confidential. This is the official LinkedIn Page of the Stealth AI Startup initiative. It represents our initiative, rather than the separate companies built by founders who follow it. Following or engaging with this page does not, by itself, establish employment, partnership or endorsement. Follow us for perspectives on building AI companies and updates from our initiative. Visit us at https://www.stealthaistartup.online/
2024
Founder and CEO
Dec 2024
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
2023
Co-Founder and CEO
May 2023
We enable non-traditional schools to operate efficiently by providing, and consulting on, in-house developed software that assists with logistics and student assessments. Our software is the result of deep consideration and research into user needs, a human-centered design approach, and heavy user testing in schools with portfolio-based assessments.
Intern
May 2023
North Coast Ventures is a Cleveland-based capital partner that invests primarily in early-stage, business-to-business (B2B), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies. With more than 400 members, which include the regions leading investors, entrepreneurs and business leaders, NCV is the largest, single-chapter investor group in the country. Since 2006, NCV and its member investors have deployed more than $90M into 67 high-potential ventures.