former Coinbase and Robinhood, serial founders, stealth AI companies
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.
We want to remind you this week that you really could change your life just by sending a cold email. Perhaps you want to meet someone. Or land a job. Or learn more about a topic. If you are on the fence about sending the email, we encourage you to give it a try this week. You never know what can happen.
Co-founders and people to jam with:
Cecchi is a 3rd time founder with multiple exits. He's building a consumer health app, already has funding, and is looking for a co-founder to lead product. Reach out: cecchi.macnaughton@gmail.com. (SF)
Omar is a multiple time founder working on a new business intelligence platform built in AI. He’s looking for a cofounder to own sales. Reach out: omar.yaacoubi@agentintelligence.com.
Tony previously founded a content and events startup, and his co-founder started a recommendations social app. They're building a gift marketplace that helps you find and buy curated gifts, using an AI-powered quiz built on vector embeddings. They are looking for a co-founder, ideally someone technical. Reach out: anthonyabaci@gmail.com.
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Early teams:
Elena from Diadia Health is hiring a content and community marketing lead and a product engineer. They are building an ai-powered medical reasoning platform that interprets complex genetic data and generates personalized protocols. Apply here. (Remote, NYC)
Colin from Rayfit is hiring a founding growth marketer. They are building a personalized fitness training platform. Apply here. (Boston)
A stealth team from Plaid is building a vertical AI fintech that just raised a $15.5m seed round. They are hiring founding engineers. Reach out here. (NYC)
Steijn previously was a product growth lead at Coinbase and Robinhood. He’s now working on Lassie, where he’s building an AI admin worker for the healthcare industry. He’s hiring a GTM person. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Vic from Scoreplay has customers like the NFL and NBA teams for their sports media platform. They are hiring a lead account executive. Apply here. (NYC)
Ali from Amigo AI is hiring a founding account executive and software engineers. They are building a platform to create reliable agents, starting with AI clinicians. Apply here. (NYC)
Jan from Meadow Memorials is hiring a business operations lead. They are building a tech-enabled. Apply here. (Remote)
Eli is building a consumer AI + social commerce company. They are hiring a founding engineer. Reach out: eli@elipadler.com. (Remote, NYC)
Nathan from Freckle just raised a $4m seed round and has paying customers for their “Clay-atlernative for SMBs.” They are hiring a head of GTM/growth and a product engineer. Reach out: nathan@freckle.io. (SF)
Devon from Thrivory is building a platform that helps healthcare providers get paid faster. They are hiring a head of growth and a head of product and engineering. Apply here. (Remote)
Ana from Empromptu is hiring a product manager and a forward deployed engineer. They are building an AI application builder. Apply here. (Remote)
Ben from Equals is hiring a content marketer. They are building a GTM analytics platform. Apply here. (NYC)
Nathaneo from Series is building an AI-powered social network for students. They are hiring a business development person. Apply here. (NYC)
Nicholas from Proto is building a stealth healthcare ai company that’s already signed revenue generating deals and closed a pre-seed round. They are hiring AI and fullstack engineers. Reach out: nicholas@theproto.ai. (NYC)
Sam from Claim is building a rewards and recommendations platform for eating and shopping. They are hiring a growth marketing lead and ambassadors. Apply here. (NYC, Remote)
Here’s a list we made of tiny teams that have surpassed millions in revenue.
Scaling startups:
Dhaivat from Verse Medical is hiring salespeople, a product manager, and software engineers. They are building ai-enabled ordering for medical equipment. Apply here. (NYC, SF)
Tina from Local Infusion just raised a $25m round and will double the team by next year. They are building modern infusion treatment centers. They are hiring a product manager and for 43 other roles. Apply here. (Remote)
Arnout previously founded Adyen, a $50 billion public company. He’s now building Tebi, where he just announced a $30m fundraise to scale their operating system for the hospitality industry. They are hiring product managers, recruiters, operations people, and engineers. Apply here. (Amsterdam)
Paradromics is building a brain-computer-interface. They are hiring an investor relations lead and an executive assistant to their CEO. Apply here. (Austin)
Bar from Wonderful just announced a $34m seed round for their AI customer support platform for emerging markets. They are hiring for all roles: marketing, product, implementations, engineering, and more. Apply here. (Tel Aviv)
John from Campfire is hiring a founding head of sales, account managers, head of partnerships, and a recruiter. They are building a platform to empower accounting and finance departments. Apply here. (SF)
Minna from EliseAI is building a startup within their already growing startup - they are building an automation platform for the healthcare and housing industries (1 in 10 apartments in the US currently use their software). They are hiring a strategy and operations manager and for dozens of other roles. Apply here. (NYC)
Mackenzie from Ambrook just raised a new round led by the founder of Figma. They are building a financial operating system for the agriculture industry. They are hiring a growth marketing lead, a partnerships lead, and software engineers. Apply here. (NYC, Denver, Remote, SF)
Simon from Plain is building an ai-native customer support platform. They are hiring a customer success manager, a content marketer, and salespeople. Apply here. (SF, London, Remote)
Levent from Bunch just announced a $25m Series A for their operating system for private market investing. They are hiring salespeople and a customer success manager. Apply here. (London, Berlin)
David from Reevo is building a revenue management platform. They are hiring GTM engineers, product operations people, product managers, and a recruiter. Apply here. (SF)
Mitchell from Basis has 20 open roles: recruiting leads, software engineers, technical PMs, and more. They are building AI agents for accountants. Apply here. (NYC)
Hamdash from Lightdash is building a Looker alternative. They are hiring technical account executives. Apply here. (Remote, London)
Here’s a list we put together of 36 of the fastest growing startups.
Hiring? We can introduce you to high-quality candidates. Reach out: hi@nextplay.so.
Investing and other:
First Round Capital is hiring a writer. Apply here. (SF, NY)
Figma is hiring a corporate development person. Apply here. (NY, SF)
Featured resources and products:
How to think for yourself: A guide to being an independent thinker.
Hunter Thompson’s Letter on Finding your Purpose: A short essay to help you figure out your life goals.
How to read better: A guide to remembering more of what you read.
Note:
We get messages weekly from people asking for startup career advice. We are thinking of writing a 50,000 word guide (like a mini-book) to getting a job at a startup. Something that would cover all the important topics: how to identify companies, how to cold email, how to interview, how to negotiate, and more. If you have any interest in something like this, would appreciate you filling out this quick form here.
We are making a list of some of the most interesting companies to work at - if you are hiring, send us an interesting tidbit about your company and we’ll try to include you!
Thanks again for being a part of Next Play. If there’s anything we can do or if you have ideas for us, please reach out!