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Co-founders and people to jam with: Francis founded Invisible, an ai training and enablement company that does hundreds of millions in revenue. He now runs Infinity Constellation, an ai holding company, and he’s looking for several CEOs to run and scale his incubated companies that already have early PMF. Apply here. (Remote) Three founders who previously started companies with exits of $1b+ are looking for a founding chief revenue officer with a background in consulting or professional services. They are in stealth and already capitalized. Reach out to hi@nextplay.so and we’ll try to connect you. (Remote) Anfal is a software engineer and product designer. He’s working on Tomo, an ai debugging tool for vibe coders. He’s looking to chat with people who are good at GTM and helping find PMF. Reach out: hello@anfalmushtaq.com. Tess is a sales leader (VP Sales at Ethena), former VC (GSV), start-up leader (Sailthru, Timehop, Andela), and Stanford MBA. She is building in the sales/marketing/GTM space and looking for a co-founder, ideally someone technical. Reach out: manning.tess@gmail.com
Early teams: Brandon previously founded a company that raised $150m. He’s now working on Search Party, a platform to help you optimize how you show up in AI search results. They are hiring a founding account executive and a founding software engineer. Apply here. (SF) Nico from Fundamental Labs is hiring a founding GTM lead and software engineers. They are building a general purpose software agents. Apply here. (SF) Shaan from Alia bootstrapped his company to $4m in revenue. They are building a digital popup platform for Shopify brands. They are hiring a founding product marketer. Apply here. George from Testudo is hiring a senior full-stack engineer. They are building a generative AI insurance platform. Apply here. (SF). Suzanne from Badge is hiring a VP of demand generation. Badge is building digital mobile wallet infrastructure. Apply here. (Remote) Lukas from Casca is hiring a founding project manager, software engineers, and an account manager. They are building a digital loan origination platform. Apply here. (SF) Alex previously founded Morning Brew. Now he’s working on Tenex, an ai enablement company, and they’ve reached $2m ARR in just 50 days. They are hiring a technical strategist and a forward deployed engineer. Apply here. (NYC) Nassim from Bastion is building an institutional stablecoin platform. They are hiring software engineers, a chief of staff to the COO, and a GTM lead. Apply here. (NYC, Remote) Zach from Helium is building “self-improving software,” AI that creates and tests new software experiences. They just raised $5M from YC/Google’s AI fund and are hiring founding engineers. Apply here. (SF) A stealth company is looking for a fractional finance lead. Apply here. (Remote, LA) Ryan from Salesjack is building a sales platform for construction suppliers. They are hiring a founding engineer. Apply here. (Remote) Tyson from Circuit is building a company-centric knowledge platform for the manufacturing industry. They are hiring a senior product designer and a backend engineer. Apply here. (Austin) Dan from Allowability is building a grant compliance platform. They signed a partnership with a university and raised $1.5m. They are hiring a founding engineer. Apply here. (NYC) Omer from Brandlight is building an seo optimization platform for “ai search engines.” They are hiring an engagement manager. Apply here. (NYC) Mark from Edapt is building an AI platform for schools. They are hiring a full stack engineer. Apply here. (Remote) Hugh and Martin sold their previous startup and are now working on Format, a platform that turns your customer conversations into insights. They are hiring a founding marketer and AI engineer. Apply here. (Dublin) Marko from Kortix is hiring a founding growth person, a founding forward deployed engineering lead, and a create your own role. They are building an open source platform to help you train your own AI agents. Apply here. (Remote)
Scaling startups: Alex from Regal is hiring an account executive. They are building a voice AI agent platform that’s made over 250 million phone calls. Apply here. (NYC) Joe from Edia is hiring a customer success manager, a product designer, and a marketing manager. They are building an AI platform to help schools improve their outcomes, and have already signed 100 customers. Apply here. (SF, Chicago, NYC) Parag was previously the CEO of Twitter. Now he’s building Parallel, a web search platform for AI agents. They are hiring a people lead, product marketers, and engineers. Apply here. (SF) George from Hebbia raised $130m from a16z last year for their ai platform for financial services. They are hiring account executives, product managers, and recruiters. Apply here. (NYC, SF) OpenAI released GPT-5 last week and said their API traffic increased 2x. They are hiring for 300+ roles across every department. Apply here. (SF, Seattle, Singapore, Tokyo, Remote) Wiley from Doss is building an adaptive ERP that recently raised $18m. They are hiring for engineering, GTM, and operations. Apply here. (SF) Tyler from Beehiiv is hiring a VP of growth to help take the company from $20m to $100m+ ARR. They are building a newsletter subscription platform. Apply here. (Remote) Mehul from Matic is building the world’s most advanced floor cleaner. They are hiring a customer success specialist and engineers. Apply here. (SF) Eric from Ramp is building a spend management platform that just reached a $22.5 billion valuation. They are hiring for every department. Apply here. (NYC, SF, Miami, Remote) Siqi from Runway is hiring a customer experience manager and a GTM AI engineer. They are building a business finance simulation platform. Apply here. (Remote) Aidan from Cohere just announced a $500m round for their enterprise AI research lab. They have 72 open roles across every department. Apply here. (SF, Toronto, NYC, Remote) Saoud from Cline is building an open source AI coding platform. They are hiring a developer relations person and a customer support engineer. Apply here. (SF) Will from Exa is building a search API for AI search engines. They are hiring account executives, a growth lead, and a product manager. Apply here. (SF) Michael from Hedra is hiring a support manager, marketers, and engineers. They are building a multi-modal content creation platform. Apply here. (SF, NYC) Here’s a list of 33 post-product-market-fit companies.
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