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Co-founders and people to jam with:
Here are 10 promising side project ideas.
Eddie has 10 years of startup and VC experience. He’s exploring the AI upskilling market and looking for a co-founder. Reach out: eddie@whyre.io.
Jason is a former founder and current GM at a large unicorn startup. He’s exploring the intersection of AI and unsexy industries. He’s looking to meet like-minded people who think about building long-term businesses. Reach out: jason.j.reich@gmail.com.
Early teams:
Kevin from Centari is building a deal intelligence platform for law and finance. They are hiring a senior marketing manager and a growth lead. Apply here. (NYC)
Jonah from Aurora is building an operating system for “high-performance living,” helping members access extraordinary experiences across travel, wellness, dining, and more. They are hiring a member relations lead, a lifestyle strategist, a mobile engineer, and a full-stack engineer. Apply here. (NYC, London)
Ryan Hoover, the former founder of Product Hunt, recently shared that “if he were to looking to join a small startup, he would interview at Eigen.” Eigen is building a new consumer product that they are calling “the internet’s shared friend.” They are hiring a business operations person and a creative director. Apply here. (SF)
Tim from Deeptune has crossed $10M ARR in the first 6 months building training gyms for AI research labs. They are hiring software engineers, operators, and a founding recruiter. Apply here. (NYC)
Sam from Optica Industries aims to build the next American metal factory. They are hiring a founding engineer (focused on computer vision). Apply here. (LA)
Michael from Pingo reached $6m ARR in under a year with just 3 people. They are building an AI companion app for language learning. They are hiring a founding mobile engineer. Apply here. (SF)
Michael from Accrue is hiring a product manager. They are building a loyalty platform. Apply here. (NYC)
Daniel was previously a General Partner at Vine Ventures where he invested in psychedelics and neurotech. Now he’s building a consumer AI that hopes to enhance human cognition by taking care of memory tasks like organizing, recalling, and forgetting. They are hiring a founding engineer. Reach out: tarockoff@berkeley.edu. (NYC, SF)
Selin from Delve needs to hire salespeople to keep up with demand. They are building an AI-native compliance platform. Apply here. (Remote)
Marius from Peec AI reached $5m ARR 11 months after starting their AI search visibility platform. They are hiring salespeople, growth people, and a product manager. Apply here. (Berlin)
Chris from Marco is building a group travel platform that has 5,000+ business customers. He’s hiring a founding sales development representative. Apply here. (Remote, Atlanta)
Chris from Hanover Park is building an AI-native operating system for funds that just crossed $10 billion in assets. They are hiring a technical recruiter. Apply here. (NYC, Remote)
Gal from Stack has helped hundreds of people launch solo AI businesses and is now growing their sales team. Apply here. (Remote)
Yasser from Chatbase is hiring a founding account executive. They help businesses build and deploy AI agents for all customer interactions. Apply here. (NYC)
Here’s a list we made of 26 early teams (under 10 people) that are hiring.
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Scaling startups:
Jacob from Farsight AI is building an AI platform for the finance industry. They are hiring a strategy and operations person. Reach out: vishnu@farsight-ai.com. (NYC)
Dannie from Baseten is hiring a community builder to help host dinners and connect interesting people. Baseten is an AI inference platform. Apply here. (SF)
Nico from Default grew ARR by more than 5x over the last 12 months for their inbound sales platform. They are hiring salespeople. Apply here. (NYC)
Julia from Langchain raised a $125 million Series B in October for their AI agent development platform. They are hiring a demand gen leader, a field marketing person, and a social/brand person. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Amol from Anduril is hiring a business generalist. Anduril is building an American defense company that recently grew to a $30 billion+ valuation. Apply here. (LA)
Tyler from Beehiiv grew ARR 80% from $13m to $23m this year. They are hiring a VP of growth marketing, a people operations manager, and a product marketing manager. Apply here. (Remote)
Michael from Strava is building “the app for active people.” They have over 150 million users across 185 countries. They are hiring a business director to scale Strava for business in the US, as well as a product manager. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Andrew from Delphi is hiring a content lead to run their podcast and social engine. Delphi is building interactive digital minds that people can talk to and learn from. Apply here. (SF)
Wade from Zapier is hiring for 18 new roles: salespeople, marketing people, and more. They are building an AI automation platform. Fun fact they were one of the first scaled fully remote companies. Apply here. (Remote)
David from Primer is hiring a head of growth. They are building a network of microschools for K-8th grade. Apply here. (Remote)
Christina from Vanta is hiring a head of storytelling. They are building an ai-powered compliance platform that reached a $4 billion valuation this summer. Apply here. (Remote)
Alex previously cofounded and sold Morning Brew. Now he’s building Tenex Labs, and says he needs to hire 100 people in the next year to support the growth of their AI transformation partner. They are hiring a director of people ops, an AI strategist, and a forward deployed engineer. Apply here. (Remote)
Jackie from Chime is hiring a strategic operations lead. They are one of the US’ leading neobanks. Apply here. (SF)
Avlok from AngelList is hiring a GTM lead, a head of operations, and an investment associate. They are building a platform that helps manage fund operations. Apply here. (NYC, SF)
Here are recommendations on startups to join from Redpoint partner, Jordan Segall.
If you are hiring, send us an email: hi@nextplay.so. We’d love to connect you with great candidates.
Investing and other:
Caleb from Bison Ventures is hiring a person with a technical background to invest in deep tech companies. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Jacob from AI2 is hiring a managing director at their incubator. Apply here. (Seattle)
Redesign Health is hiring a VP of technology and a venture ecosystem person. Apply here. (NYC, SF)
Headline is hiring a senior associate investor. Apply here. (SF)
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