roles at breakout startups, co-founder searches, early startups hiring
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Co-founders and people to jam with: Landon previously started a YC startup in the ai space and worked at Google. He’s looking to build a b2b agentic startup and is looking for cofounders. Reach out: landonsanford1@gmail.com. Yonah is an Investor at MXV Capital and was the founding team member at Gynger, where he joined pre-product and helped them scale to $140m+ raised. He’s exploring vertical AI agents and seeking a co-founder. Reach out: Yonah@mxv.vc. Ben is exploring co-founder opportunities where he can drive GTM and operations from day one. He spent two decades in US intelligence roles overseas, leading teams from Nigeria to Indonesia to DC. Since leaving government, he has held senior roles at Palantir, Applied Intuition and Metropolis, delivering computer vision and AI into legacy industries including defense, QSR and energy. Reach out: bkrmfowle@zoho.com. Request for startups - ideas from top investors Spring 2026.
Looking to hire? Reach out to hi@nextplay.so. We would love to promote you and connect you to great candidates. Early teams: Conor from Intension is building a mac app that improves your attention. They are hiring a contract-to-hire product designer. Apply here. (NYC, Remote) Fryderyk from Viktor is building an AI coworker that lives in your Slack. They are hiring a founding b2b account executive. Apply here. (SF, Remote) Fred from Fleet AI is hiring an operations generalist and a former founder. They are building high-fidelity environments to train AI models. Apply here. (SF, NYC) Dima from Mirai is building a fast inference engine for Apple products. They are hiring engineers including ML people. Apply here. (SF, Remote) Sky, the former head of product design at Rocket Money and Acorns, is hiring a head of marketing for his stealth startup. Apply here. (Austin, LA, Remote) Braiden from Amplifi is hiring a head of AI integrations. They are building a wealth management service. Apply here. (Remote) Josh from Eragon has reached 50+ customers and $12m+ raised with a team of ten people. They are hiring a growth person and an applied AI person. They are building an AI operating system for work. Apply here. (SF) Steve from Noto is hiring a founding biz ops and implementations lead. They are building software for lesson based businesses. Apply here. (NYC) Yash is hiring a founding engineer at a stealth startup backed by Precursor and Betaworks, with early conversations with United, Delta, JetBlue, and IAG. They are building AI-native travel distribution infrastructure. Reach out: in@bjornlabs.com. (NYC) Jeremy from Virio is hiring a head of growth to help scale their ai social marketing platform from 7 to 9 figures. Apply here. (SF) Taylor from Ravenna is hiring a demand generation lead. They are building an AI-powered helpdesk. Apply here. (Seattle) Nico from Shortcut is growing 50% MoM. They are building an AI agent for excel work. They are hiring a technical GTM specialist. Apply here. (SF) Andy from Tracebit is hiring a founding account executive and a founding product manager. They are building a data breach detection platform. Apply here. (London, NYC) Here’s a list we made of 28 tiny startups that are currently hiring.
Scaling startups: Alfred from Listen Labs is hiring a Growth Lead. They are building an AI-powered research platform. Apply here. (SF, NYC) Marc from Langfuse is building an open source LLM engineering platform that’s trusted by 19 of the fortune 50 and has over 2k customers. They are hiring a product engineer, a forward deployed engineer, and a technical account manager. Apply here. (Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Zurich) Max from Superpower is hiring a chief of staff. They are building an operating system for personal health and have 10x’d revenue in the past 6 months. Apply here. (SF) Daniel from Blackbird Labs is hiring for 20+ roles including product marketing, BDRs, and product management. They are building a rewards platform for restaurants. Apply here. (LA, NYC) Arjun from Cloaked raised a $375m Series B to scale their data security protection platform. They are hiring customer success people, product people, and AEs. Apply here. (NYC) Arash from Puzzle is hiring a customer success lead. They are building an ai-native accounting platform. Apply here. (Remote) Quinten from Portola, which makes the AI companion app, Tolan, is hiring an Agent Engineering Manager. Apply here. (SF) Brian from Chalk is building a data platform for AI and ML. They are hiring a director of finance and 27 other roles across every department. Apply here. (NY, SF) Cody from Ambrook is hiring a founding operations associate. They are building financial tools for family-run American businesses, and raised $26.1 million last year. Apply here. (NYC) Eugen from Edra is hiring salespeople and a technical recruiter. They are building enterprise AI agents. Apply here. (NYC, London) David from Farsight is building an ai platform for finance teams. They are hiring an account executive and a product marketing manager. Apply here. (NYC) Karan, the head of finance at Clay, is hiring an executive assistant. They crossed $100m in revenue for their GTM platform. Apply here. (NYC) Jack from Purdy & Figg is scaling one of the fastest growing CPG brands in the UK (1m+ customers) and is hiring a vibe coding specialist to focus on landing pages. Apply here. (London, Remote) Michael from Cursor is hiring a startup growth lead to own their startup ecosystem. Their mission is to automate coding. Apply here. (SF, NYC)
Investing and other: Bill Gurley, founder of Benchmark Capital, is hiring a director to lead a new foundation associated with his new book. Apply here. (Austin, remote) Vaibhav from Oddbird is hiring a founding investor. Apply here. (SF) Ali from Equal Ventures is hiring an associate. Apply here. (NYC)
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