Roles at former Coinbase founder's company, an a16z-backed CTO, the Betterment founder's incubation
opportunities at breakout startups, co-founder searches, and early teams hiring
✨ Hey there this is a free edition of Next Play’s newsletter, where we share under-the-radar opportunities to help you figure out what’s next in your journey.
Challenge for you this week: send one cold-email. (You can use our free guide to cold emailing - it should)
Co-founders and people to jam with:
The Treasury, a venture fund founded by the founders of Betterment (Eli) and Acorns (Jeff), are looking for a co-founder for their new incubation: Cranes. They are building immigration infrastructure to digitize the application and review process in the U.S. Apply here and reach out: sasha@thetreasury.com. (NYC)
The former CTO of an a16z funded consumer fintech (raised $20m in VC and was acquired) is exploring new ideas in consumer workplace/AI, fintech, public safety, robotics, and more and is looking for a collaborator. Reach out to hi@nextplay.so with context and we’ll try to connect you.
Here are 23 startup ideas we sourced from our community of investors and founders.
Suchin currently works as a chief of staff to an executive at a $1b revenue PE-backed distributor. He’s working on a new AI platform for b2b product merchandising and sales and is looking for a co-founder, ideally someone technical. Reach out: suchinkundra@gmail.com.
We’re building a list of great people looking for co-founders. If you’d like to be added, 1) join Friends of Next Play and 2) send us an email hi@nextplay.so.
Early teams:
Ashley from Aldea is hiring a head of marketing, a product manager, and software engineers. They are building a next-generation AI company focused on voice-based clinical and expert applications. Apply here. (NYC, Miami)
A stealth AI fintech company with $15.5M in seed funding from top tier investors is hiring 4-6 engineers to join them in building an AI native fintech platform. Reach out: rron@solarawealth.com. (NYC)
Joel from Atomus is building cyber-infrastructure for aerospace and defense. They are hiring a software engineer and salespeople. Apply here. (SF)
Artur from Open Babylon has built a team of ex-founders with multiple exits. They are building an adaptation platform for LLMs in non-english speaking countries. They are hiring a TikTok & AI content lead. Apply here. (Remote)
Elliot from AccessiBe is hiring a revenue operations manager. They are building a web accessibility platform designed for compliance. Apply here. (NYC)
Priyaa from Lica is hiring a founding GTM and sales leader. They are building a generative AI platform for consumer brands. Reach out: hello@lica.world. (SF)
Neil from Conversion is building a marketing automation platform that just raised $28m. They are hiring a founding account executive, a founding product marketer, and a designer. Apply here. (SF)
Eliana from Joyful Health is hiring a strategy/ops lead and a generalist. They are building a financial operating system for healthcare. Apply here and reach out: eliana@joyfulhealth.io. (NYC)
Justin from Callidus is building a legal AI platform that recently raised $10m. They are hiring genAI engineers and devops people. Apply here. (SF)
Ian from PromptFoo is hiring a founding product marketing manager and an account executive. They are building a platform to help developers ship reliable AI products. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Ryan from Crosby is hiring a former founder to be their head of people. They are building an ai-powered law firm and recently raised a $5.8M seed round from Sequoia. Apply here. (NYC)
Sam from Felt is hiring a VP of marketing, salespeople, and a growth product manager. They are building a map and dashboard making platform (and just raised $15m). Apply here. (Remote)
Are you hiring? Send us an email: hi@nextplay.so. We’d love to help you meet great candidates.
Scaling startups:
Reminder you can fill out your profile on the free Next Play platform. The purpose of the platform is to help connect people to the best companies. You can make your profile anonymous if you prefer.
Nicolas from Attio is hiring a head of growth marketing. They are building an ai-native CRM. Apply here. (NYC, London)
Ben from Moxie is hiring a senior business operations manager. Moxie has helped more than 300 aesthetic entrepreneurs—90%+ of which are female first-time business owners—successfully launch, run, and grow their own independent medspas. Apply here. (Remote)
Filip and Robert from Wordware raised a $30m seed round to build background agents that automate your repetitive work so you can focus on what matters. They are hiring for a product designer, a brand designer, and a video creator to join their growing team of mainly ex-founders. Apply here. (SF)
Monik at Toma raised $17M from a16z and YC to build AI agents for auto dealerships and they’ve already automated 1M+ phone interactions. They are hiring across sales and operations. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Lennard from Langdock just reached $7m ARR ($2m of which was added in the last six weeks). They are building a multi-faceted ai platform for companies. They are hiring an “ai associate” to work closely with their customers to drive adoption. Apply here. (Berlin)
Aneesh from Knit just raised a $16.1m Series A and are a hiring a customer success leader, a director of engineering, and a research director. They are building an ai-powered survey and research platform. Apply here. (Remote)
Adeel from Magic School is hiring for 23 open roles across customer success, marketing, operations, and more. They are building an AI platform for schools and teachers, and have over 4 million users. Apply here. (Remote)
Jacob from Liquid AI recently raised over $250m to try and build efficient general AI. They are hiring data people and engineers. Apply here. (Remote, SF, Boston)
Mukund from Salient recently passed an annualized run rate of $14 million, and raised a $60m round for their AI-powered loan servicing product. They are hiring a founding account executive as well as engineers. Apply here. (SF)
Fred, the former founder of Coinbase, is building Nudge, a brain computer interface. They just raised $100m, and are hiring for engineering, recruiting, and have a general application. Apply here. (SF)
Dani from Reka just raised $110m to scale their multi-modal AI platform. They are hiring salespeople, a product manager, and marketing people. Apply here. (Remote)
Brett from Service Up raised $55m and is hiring an account manager and a design lead. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Fal just announced they raised a $125m round for their generative media platform for developers. They are hiring for content marketing, customer success, and engineering. Apply here. (SF)
Here’s a list we made of companies started by “post-exit” founders that are hiring.
Investing and other:
Nichole from Wischoff Ventures is hiring an associate to work on early-stage startup investing. Apply here. (SF)
Rob from Lemnis is hiring their first investment associate focused on education investing. Apply here. (Remote w/ travel)
Jeff from Chapter One is hiring an investment partner. Apply here. (SF)
Point72 Ventures is hiring an investment associate to focus on AI investing. Apply here. (NYC)
Featured resources and products:
Writing club: Like a run club, for writing. A place to get feedback on your writing and meet other people (founders, engineers, investors, etc.) who want to improve their writing. Right now, you can use the code “nextplay99” for a $50 founding member discount.
The GTM Engineer Roundup: A summary of all things happening (and new jobs) from the world of GTM engineering.
Thanks for reading! If you have any ideas, questions, or feedback - please send us an email: hi@nextplay.so. We’d love to be helpful.
Friends of Next Play:
Below, you’ll find some of the latest updates to Friends of Next Play, including invites to upcoming events (like office hours and AI-building guides), some of our favorite conversations from Slack last week, and some new discounts to our favorite products that we added to the membership.