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Challenge for you this week: send FIVE great cold emails. This could be to a startup you are interested in or people you just want to meet. You may roll your eyes a bit but I really believe sending great emails can change your life. Here’s a quick guide we wrote that should help you get started. You can also meet new like-minded people in the Friends of Next Play Slack. We have heard countless stories of people meeting their co-founders, colleagues, and new friends. You can join here. Join Friends of Next Play
Co-founders and people to jam with: Here are 10 interesting side projects and companies we would love to see you try to build. Jonathan did ML research at Stanford and NUS, and published the best performing models in decoding images from fMRI and EEG brain scans. He founded Alljoined to decode thoughts from EEG, and the team has achieved state-of-the-art results in image and emotion decoding. He is looking for a nontechnical cofounder. Reach out: jonathan@alljoined.com. Tooba, a former MIT PhD, is launching Amoeba, a “neuro-symbolic BI engine” that helps businesses interpret their revenue signals. She’s launching with Fortune 500 customers this quarter and already has over 6 figures in ARR. She’s looking for a co-founder to help own customer success and operations. Apply here. Garima has been a software developer at Amazon for the past 10+ years. She’s building something in the security space and open to meeting a co-founder. Reach out: joshi0311@gmail.com.
Looking to hire some great people? Send us an email: hi@nextplay.so. We can help connect you to talented candidates quickly. Early teams: Mayank from Eagle is hiring a chief of staff. They are building an ai-native engineering firm for the physical world to meet the US’ infrastructure needs. Apply here. (NYC) Dori from Ezra is hiring a founding account executive. They are building an AI platform for the sustainable financing industry. Apply here. (NYC) Michael from Turnstile is hiring a customer knowledge lead and a founding account executive. They are building a revenue management platform. Apply here. (Remote) Skye from Pact AI is building a platform to match clinical trial patients with relevant treatments. They are hiring a founding engineer. Reach out: skye@pact-ai.com. Connor is trying to build the biggest basketball league in the world. They are looking for a VP of Finance. Apply here. (Toronto) Eric previously founded Soundcloud. They are now building Nell, a generative AI consumer platform and are hiring founding engineers. Apply here. (SF) Faizan from Wizard is building an automated corporate perks platform. They are hiring a founding account executive. Apply here. (SF, Chicago, Remote) Andrew from Sphere is hiring account executives. They are building an AI-native tax engine that already has customers like Lovable and Replit. Apply here. (Remote, SF) Mike from Ridley is hiring a GTM growth lead. They are building a streamlined home selling platform. Apply here. (Boulder) Andrew from Array Labs is hiring a head of marketing and a chief of staff. They are building a platform that operates satellites. Apply here. (SF) Here is a list we made of 33 fast-growing companies that are currently hiring.
Scaling startups: Alex from Higgsfield just completed their $130M Series A at a $1.3B valuation for their AI video and image platform. They are hiring enterprise GTM people, marketing people, and an HR operations person. Apply here. (Remote) Melanie from Heard is hiring a growth marketing contractor. They are building accounting software for therapists. Apply here. (Remote) Mike from Extend is hiring 3 account executives and 2 GTM people to help them reach 8-figure ARR in the next 6 months. They are building a document processing toolkit. Apply here. (NYC) Daniel Gross from Meta is hiring people to work on their AI compute desk. They are hiring people with a wide variety of backgrounds across technology, operations, supply chain, and more as they plan to invest $100b+ in compute. Apply here. (SF, NYC, Remote) Saya from Notion is hiring people for their people team including recruiters and operations people. Apply here. (SF) Tiffany from Parafin is building a white-label financing platform. They are hiring a product operations specialist. Apply here. (SF) Alexandra from Turnkey is hiring GTM people, a product manager, and a head of revenue operations. They are building scalable digital wallet infrastructure. Apply here. (NYC) Matthew from OpenAI’s corporate development team is hiring a deal lead and a sourcing lead. Apply here. (SF) Jake from Numeric plans to 3x the GTM team this year and hire dozens of AEs, BDRs, and managers. They are building an AI accounting platform. Apply here. (SF, NYC) Colin from Flow is hiring a strategic finance director. Founded by former WeWork founder Adam Neumann, and having already raised at a multi-billion dollar valuation, they are building a new type of living experience. Apply here. (Miami) Mahmoud from Bland is hiring account managers, forward deployed engineers, and growth people. They are building an enterprise voice AI platform that went from pre-seed to Series B in less than 10 months. Apply here. (SF) Nat from TRM Labs is hiring a head of capital markets and corporate development. They are building a blockchain intelligence platform. Apply here. (SF) Justin from Starbridge is hiring for 10+ roles including sales and product. They just raised $42m to scale their platform that helps organizations win public sector contracts. Apply here. (NYC) Here is a list we made of 34 teams with $50m to $100m in recent funding that are currently hiring.
Investing and other: Featured resources and products: Note: What startups have you heard about providing interesting perks? Varun from Clay recently shared that every person on their team has access to 6 life coaches to help with anything. Thanks for reading! If you have any notes, thoughts, or suggestions, please send us an email: hi@nextplay.so. Would appreciate if you could upvote and share this edition if you liked it. Thanks so much!
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