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Moiz was a senior software engineer at several startups and now he’s building an AI productivity platform to help people work from home without being distracted (even if they have ADHD). He’s looking for a cofounder who can handle more of the operations and marketing. Reach out: moizrizvi@gmail.com.
Ivan was a software engineer at Meta for three years. He’s building a coding agent platform that focuses on IOS development. Reach out: im@popapp.biz.
Forum Ventures is looking for solo founders to co-build new B2B AI startups in its venture studio. They’ll help you from day zero by providing you with a full-team to help you scale. Apply here. (Remote)
Reminder that we’re building a new list of people looking for a co-founder. If you’d like to be added, fill out this form.
Early teams:
Michael from Granted is hiring a founding product marketer. They are building a consumer platform that helps Americans take charge of their healthcare. Apply here. (NYC)
Perla from Foam is building an AI platform to spot production code errors. They are hiring a founding full stack engineer. Apply here. (SF)
Barbara from TrueClaim is building an ai-native health administration platform. They are hiring a software engineer. Apply here. (SF)
Arvid from Anadyr Horizon is hiring a head of design and product experience (as well as a head of engineering). They are building a predictive simulation platform that helps executives and leaders make better (important!) decisions. Apply here. (Remote)
Melisa from Netic is hiring a founding account executive and a product manager. They are building a revenue platform for essential services businesses. Apply here. (SF)
Troy from OnboardAI is building an AI platform for the healthcare industry. They are hiring a lead software engineer. Apply here. (NYC, Seattle)
Javier from Caplight is hiring a private markets/business development associate. They are building a data platform for the secondary markets. Apply here. (SF)
Victor from Luma has scaled to millions of event registrations every month with just a small team of 7 people. They are hiring a chief of staff to lead ops, sales, and partnerships. Apply here. (NYC)
Andrew from Runlayer is hiring a head of marketing and a founding account executive. They just raised a round from Khosla to make it simpler and safer to connect AI across the enterprise stack. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Gabe from Origin is hiring a founding operations lead. They are building a platform that helps speech therapists build their own private practices. Apply here. (SF)
Palle (ex-Uber) and Patrick (Span Health acquired by Eight Sleep) are building Hale, a Menlo-backed preventive health company using AI and diagnostics to prevent disease before it starts. They are hiring a founding engineer. Reach out: patrick@joinhale.com.
Alexander from Magic Patterns is hiring a chief of staff and a head of community. They are building an AI design tool for product teams. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Here’s a list of recommendations from SV Angel GP Andrea Wang.
We’re building a list of companies that have hired lots of former founders (and are looking for more!). For example, Cursor (50), Supabase (30), Exa (10), Fyxer (20), Mintlify (6). Email us: hi@nextplay.so if you’re hiring and looking for former founders.
Scaling startups:
Zach from Brellium is building an ai-powered clinical compliance platform. They are hiring for 20 roles: customer success, strategic partnerships, content marketing, and more. Apply here. (NYC)
Jacob from Novig is hiring a performance marketing lead, an accounting lead, and a brand marketing lead. building a sweepstakes-based sports prediction market. Apply here. (NYC)
Jay from Bluesky has over 40 million registered users for their social media platform. They hiring a head of communications, a technical recruiter, a data scientist, and more. Apply here. (Remote, Seattle)
Clementine from Fever is hiring a head of business development to help them build a startup within a startup. They are creating a b2b experience that offers “live-experiences-as-a-service.” Reach out: clementine.bellon@feverup.com. (remote)
Sylvie from Anthropic is hiring someone to work on the editorial team. Apply here. (Remote)
Parag from Parallel was previously the CEO of Twitter. They just raised a $100m round to scale their web API for AI. They are hiring a GTM lead and a people lead. Apply here. (SF)
Tim from Deeptune has reached 7-figures ARR in their first 6 months for their training platform for AI agents. They are hiring software engineers. Apply here. (NYC)
Cherry, the CFO of Hightouch, just said a person on their sales team just broke their internal record for most ARR added in a quarter [previous record was broken 10 days prior], and she’s cutting a 7-figure commission check. They are building a customer data and AI platform and they are hiring more salespeople. Apply here. (Remote, SF, NYC, London)
Ron from OnePay is hiring a product lead to own everything crypto. OnePay is building a consumer financial services app to help people achieve financial progress. Apply here. (Remote)
J Zac from Span is hiring for customer success and sales. They just raised $25m to scale their AI-native developer intelligence platform. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Hassaan from Tavus just raised a $40m Series B for their “AI humans.” They are hiring a recruiter and a customer success person. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Cecilia from GC AI is building a legal AI platform. They are hiring for 25 positions across every department: business operations, customer success, marketing, and more. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Dror from Sweet Security just raised $100m and is hiring for every department: sales, engineering, customer success, etc. They are building a cloud and AI security platform. Apply here. (Tel Aviv)
Here’s a list we made of 34 startups that recently raised $50-$100 million and are hiring.
Investing and other:
Bryan from a16z is hiring a partner to work with him on the consumer AI investments team. Apply here. (SF)
An anonymous early-stage VC partner is looking to co-found a new venture firm (has about $200 million in LP interest so far from tech execs and former founders). Email hi@nextplay.so and we’ll try to connect you.
Intuit Ventures is hiring a principal venture capital investor. Apply here. (SF)
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