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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 get messages every week from people in the community who recently found their next play. Here’s your (hopefully) encouraging reminder to keep working towards whatever your goal may be 🙂 And please do email us: hi@nextplay.so if we can help.

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Co-founders and people to jam with:

• Baur is looking to be someone’s CTO/technical co-founder. He previously worked at Meta/Google/startups, and has extensive experience in AI, security, and infrastructure. Reach out here: baur.krykpayev@gmail.com. (SF)

• An anonymous director-level operator currently at a unicorn valuation startup that specializes in location data is looking for someone who wants to build a product using Google's new Geospatial Reasoning model. Reach out to hi@nextplay.so and we’ll try to connect you.

• Spencer is exploring ideas that revolutionize hospitality, leveraging AR/VR to do interior design and create luxury experiences for those who want to live, host, and travel differently. He’s looking for a co-founder. Reach out: svaudry@shippedhospitality.com.

• Jarrod is building Arc, the memory layer for engineering teams building AI systems. He’s looking for a co-founder. Reach out here: jarrod@arc.computer.

• Mert previously founded an AI sales tool and before that spent years in IB/private equity. He’s starting a around fintech and marketplaces, and is looking for a technical cofounder. Reach out: m@mertdev.dev.

Looking to meet a co-founder? Find friends? Get feedback on your ideas? Check out Friends of Next Play, our private Slack community where you’ll meet like-minded people, get invited to gatherings, and get thousands of dollars worth of discounts to our favorite products. You can join here.

Early teams:

• Nikhil from Vitalize Care has gone from 0 to 7-figure ARR in the last 6 months. They are building a unified clinical operating system to help hospitals run more efficiently. They already have tens of thousands of users, and are looking for engineers and a founding account executive. Apply here and reach out: nikhil@vitalize.care. (SF)

• Paul from Cousin Labs is building a creator growth agency already at $2M annualized revenue with a team of 3 people. They are hiring a Head of Paid Search to own strategy, execution, and P&L across client accounts. Founding team is ex-YouTube, Google and managed $100M+ in spend. Reach out: paul@cousinlabs.com.

• Veeraj from Dart Health is hiring their first non-technical person to work as a generalist on anything needed to help scale. They are building an ai-powered clinical record analysis platform. Apply here. (NYC)

• Div from AGI, Inc is looking to build AI agent products to help people with everyday life. They just shipped an agent course with Andrew Ng. They’re hiring a Fullstack Eng, AI Product Eng, Mobile Engineer, and Founding Product Designer. Reach out: build@agi.tech. (SF)

• Arthur from Domos is building an AI property management platform. They are hiring a founding engineer. Apply here and reach out: careers@joindomos.com. (NYC)

• Mina from Sandbar is building a new human-computer interface designed to help humans better “navigate the world around and inside us.” They hiring a product designer and a wildcard (ops/marketer). Apply here. (NYC)

• Janvi from Hue is building a platform that enables eCommerce brands (like Revolve) to embed shoppable UGC video onto their storefronts. They are hiring a full-stack engineer. Apply here. (Remote)

• Gui from Integral is building a crypto accounting and treasury product that recently partnered with Coinbase. They are hiring a backend engineer. Apply here and reach out: referrals@integral.xyz. (Toronto, Remote)

• A stealth team from Plaid is building a vertical AI fintech company that just raised a substantial seed round from top investors. They are now hiring early engineers with fullstack or applied AI experience. Reach out: rron@solarawealth.com. (NYC)

• Bolbi Liu from Adsgency is building a single AI platform that brings together everything advertisers need to launch, manage, and scale campaigns effortlessly. After debuting in HF0 and with multi-millions in revenue, they are hiring across engineering, sales, and more. Apply here and reach out directly: bolbi@adsgency.ai. (SF)

• Vizcom is hiring a head of marketing, an enterprise account executive, and AI engineers. They are building a platform that helps you turn sketches into 3d models. Apply here. (Remote, SF)

• Michael from Ocular is hiring a founding enterprise account executive. They are building a data engine for multi-modal AI. Apply here. (SF)

• Anna from Recraft is building a premium AI image generation tool. They are hiring a content strategist, founding account executive, and creative director. Apply here. (London, NYC, SF)

• Dr. Jenny Shao from Robyn AI is building an emotional AI that helps people feel seen and emotionally connected. They raised a seed round and are hiring founding team members: a growth and social media lead, senior product manager, and UX designer. Apply here. (SF, Remote)

The easiest way to get connected to companies is to sign up for the new Next Play Platform. When you create a profile (it’s free!), we share your profile (anonymously or publicly) with top companies that are hiring. You can also use the platform to search for opportunities by location, role, and more. You can sign up here.

Scaling startups:

• Chris from Mytra previously was at Tesla for 7 years and now raised a $50m Series B to build a warehouse automation product enabled by robotics and AI. They are hiring for 10 roles including in HR, operations, and engineering. Apply here. (SF, Remote)

• Encord is hiring for dozens of roles across every department - they are building AI infrastructure that helps companies annotate and label their data. Apply here. (Remote, London)

• Nous Research is building human-centric simulators and models. They just announced a $65m seed round and are hiring engineers, a head of finance, and a general counsel. Apply here. (Remote)

• Anurag from Render raised a $80m Series C earlier this year and is now hiring in customer support, engineering, marketing, and product. They are building a cloud application development platform. Apply here. (SF, Remote)

• Doppel is building a platform to stop social engineering. They are hiring a people operations manager, an account executive, a rev ops manager, and engineers. Apply here. (SF, NYC, Remote)

• Slate is building a new type of car company. They are backed by Jeff Bezos and hiring for 46 roles. Apply here. (Michigan)

• Ravenna is building an AI-enabled internal support platform built on Slack. They recently raised $15m and are hiring growth marketers and engineers. Apply here. (Remote)

• Apron is building a business payments platform. They are hiring a technical product manager, a customer service representative, and a senior engineer. Apply here. (London, Remote, Poland)

• David from Midjourney is hiring. Midjourney scaled from $0 to $200m in ARR with 10 people. They are building an independent research lab that explores tools for thought and expression. Apply here. (remote)

• Mackenzie from Ambrook is hiring in engineering, growth, and operations. Their mission is to make sustainability profitable for family-run businesses. Apply here. (NYC, Denver, Remote)

• Pliant just raised a $40m Series B. Their platform allows companies to issue physical and virtual credit cards, automate payment processes, and track spending. They are hiring in every department. Apply here. (Berlin, London, Remote)

• Here is a list of 35 companies that recently raised between $5-15M and are hiring.

Hiring? Send us an email: hi@nextplay.so - we’d love to connect you with candidates.

Investing and other:

• Kevin Hartz, founder of Eventbrite, Xoom, and A*, is hiring a chief of staff. Apply here. (SF)

• A tier 1 venture capital firm with over $1B in AUM is building a new type of investing platform. They’re in stealth and hiring a Membership + Partnerships Lead. Apply here and reach out here: hiring.stealth.investing@gmail.com. (LA, SF, NYC)

• Point72 is hiring an investment associate to focus on defense tech. Apply here. (DC)

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Note:

• We appreciate you being a part of the community. Truly very energizing and inspiring to see so much activity. We love to hear and see that people are meeting new people who are helping them as they figure out their next play — whether that be co-founders, future employers, or just people who can relate to one another, it’s great to see people coming together.

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