opportunities at breakout startups, co-founder searches, and early teams hiring
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Wins from last week: We received notes from several different people who told us how helpful the Slack community has been. One person said they met their now cofounder 2 months ago via a Slack post, and another said they got helpful feedback from another community member. We would love to see you in the Friends of Next Play Slack, where you’ll get invited to all sorts of events, introductions to like-minded people, and tons of opportunities for connection and feedback. You can join here. Join Friends of Next Play
Co-founders and people to jam with: Reminder to respect the community and not send spam emails. Brian is a multiple-time founder who did Y Combinator and was also the director of product at a Series A fintech startup. He’s looking for a cofounder, and is interested in AI, fitness, b2b, games, and more. Reach out: leung.b@gmail.com. Macy has spent the last 6 years building startups from $0 to $10m ARR. She’s looking for a cofounder interested in the security/compliance space. Reach out: macybmody@gmail.com. Two former product/engineering leaders who scaled Sequoia-backed startups are working on a solution in the accounts receivables space. They are hoping to chat with anyone who works in the finance function within companies who may have opinions on chasing payments down. Reach out: hi@nextplay.so and we’ll connect you. Sam previously was the founder/CEO of a startup and is now a venture investor. He’s open to meeting cofounders who want to build AI solutions in unsexy industries. Reach out: sam@compounding.ventures. Jason is a general partner at a venture capital fund. He’s looking for a co-founder/CTO for an incubated startup that already has customers signed. Apply here. (Boston)
Are you hiring? Send us an email: hi@nextplay.so. We’d love to connect you to great candidates. Early teams: Clementine is building a startup inside of Fever (one of the world’s biggest event discovery platforms). They are looking for account executives to help them scale their b2b motion. Apply here. (NYC, Chicago, LA) A stealth AI fintech company with $9.9M in seed funding from top tier investors is hiring a VP of product to join them in building AI-native financial infrastructure for private markets. Apply here and reach out: fintech.platform.hiring@gmail.com. (NYC) Scott from Titan Holdings is hiring a chief of staff/operations person. Titan is a holding company and venture studio that builds and operates AI-native companies to reimagine critical industries. Apply here. (Remote, SF) Anthony was previously the founder of Kaggle (acquired by Google). He is now building Sumble, an ai-powered sales intelligence platform, and is hiring a senior designer, a head of sales, and an account executive. Apply here. (Remote) Dan from Gelt is hiring a customer success coordinator. They are building a tax services platform for HNWIs and businesses. Apply here. (Remote) Aaron from Chariot is building a platform to make it easier to donate money. They hiring a product person and a marketing person. Apply here. (NYC) Robert from OpenHands just raised a Series A and are hiring an enterprise account executive and a product marketing manager. They are building an open platform for cloud coding agents. Apply here. (Remote) Nicholas from Sphere is building an ai-native tax engine and have backing from a16z. They are hiring an founding customer success manager, a chief of staff, and a founding account executive. Apply here. (SF, Remote) Fern from Irongrid is building an insurance platform for hardware. They are hiring an underwriter to build and manager their underwriting function. Apply here. (SF) Oren from Rally is building a user research platform. They are hiring an account executive, a senior product manager, and a customer success manager. Apply here. (Remote, SF) Justin from Pine is building a better mortgage experience for Canadians. They are hiring a business operations analyst. Apply here. (Toronto) Alexander from Bemlo is hiring a forward deployed engineer. They are building an ai-native scheduling and workforce management platform for healthcare. Apply here. (Stockholm) Here are recommendations on interesting companies from SV Angel General Partner Andrea Wang.
Scaling startups: Fiona from Overstory is hiring a senior manager of demand generation and a senior manager of revenue operations. They are building a platform that uses AI to reduce wildfire risk. Apply here. (Remote) James from Posthog recently raised at a $920m valuation to scale their platform that helps product engineers build successful products. They are hiring for lots of roles including product engineers, customer success managers, and a founding BDR. Apply here. (Remote) Omar from Mews is hiring for a Head of GTM Systems / GTM Systems Architect and for a generalist role within GTM Strategy and Ops. Mews is a leading vertical software business for hotels and hospitality groups with 12,500 customers globally and has raised over $400mm. Reach out: omar.khatib@mews.com. (Remote) John from Norm just raised $50 million from Blackstone for their legal and compliance AI. They have 20 open roles across strategy, forward deployed engineering, and marketing. Apply here. (NYC) Matt from Spellbook is hiring a chief of staff. They recently raised a $50m series B for their ai-suite for commercial lawyers. Apply here. (Toronto) Alex from Hello Patient is hiring a business analyst. They are building an ai-powered voice and sms platform for healthcare. Apply here. (Austin) Parker from Rippling is hiring a product lead to own their finance products. Rippling is an-all-in-one payroll and HR platform that recently reached a $16.8 billion valuation. Apply here. Yash from Applied Compute is building Specific Intelligence for enterprises. They just raised $80m and have 5 open roles across infrastructure, research, and engineering. Apply here. (SF) Nik from Revolut just announced they reached a “$75 billion valuation, a milestone in their journey towards building the world’s first global bank.” They have 511 open roles across every position in every category including marketing, sales, engineering, and more. Apply here. (London, Madrid, Remote) Jonathan from Function Health just raised a $298m Series B for their comprehensive health data platform. They have 32 open roles across operations, finance, and member success. Apply here. (Remote) Kevin from Doppel is building an ai-platform to prevent brand and people from social engineering attacks. They are hiring salespeople, people operations managers, and customer success managers. Apply here. (Remote) Mikey from Suno just raised a $250m Series C and are hiring in every department: design, operations, talent, and more. They are building an ai music platform. Apply here. (Boston, NYC, LA) Here’s a curated list we made of 22 companies that raised over $100m and are hiring.
Investing and other: Ira from DBL Partners is one of the longest serving Tesla Board Members and investors. They are hiring an investment analyst. Apply here. (SF) Softbank is hiring an investment associate. Apply here. (SF) Bain Capital Ventures is hiring a VP to research software investments. Apply here. (Boston)
Featured resources and products: Note: Love seeing companies we featured in the early days of Next Play reach escape velocity (many of which have grown 1000x in valuation since we first saw them). And kudos to everyone who became early employees at the now much bigger companies. Thanks so much for reading! If you enjoyed, please consider upvoting and sharing with friends. Appreciate your support.
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