next play opportunities 6/18
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This is next play’s newsletter, where we share under-the-radar opportunities to help you figure out what’s next in your journey.
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Breakout startups:
Celine from Loyal is working to extend dog lifespan (they recently raised a $45m series B). They are hiring a business operations generalist to work directly with their director of operations to scale drug distribution. Email lauren@loyalfordogs.com.
Varun from Clay is hiring for several roles. Their mission is to help teams grow their customer base by finding and reaching out to the right people. Their product is a tool that enables complex data aggregation, transformation, and automation. Clay is now one of the fastest growing startups based in NYC. You can actually “create your own role” here.
Michael, the CEO of WorkOS, is hiring an account executive to help scale their sales motion. WorkOS is a developer platform that helps make apps enterprise ready (they raised an $80m series B and are growing quickly). You can learn more and apply here.
James from BRM is hiring for all sorts of roles (sales, design, engineering). BRM is a tool that helps startups buy software more efficiently and intentionally. They are scaling quickly with real customers. Email join@brm.ai to learn more.
Julie from Rentana is hiring a chief of staff. Rentana is building an ai-powered revenue intelligence platform. Looking for someone in person in NYC. Reach out to Julie here.
Flipturn’s mission is to decarbonize transportation by accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles. They provide a comprehensive solution that minimizes utility costs with energy management, improves charger uptime and issue resolution speed, and provides powerful cost per mile and range insights for EV operations. They are hiring a software engineer. You can learn more and apply here.
Will, former founder of Plaid, is building Column - a bank and a software company built from the ground up, offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions that cut out the hundreds of vendors, middleware providers, and abstraction layers. They are hiring someone to join the business operations team. You can learn more and apply here.
Sydecar’s mission is to make private markets more accessible, transparent, and liquid. They are hiring a senior account executive. You would own a quota and book of business for their core SPV and Fund+ products, including nurturing leads through the sales pipeline to signing and launching of a deal. You can apply here.
Tejas from Hightouch is hiring a revenue operations analyst. Hightouch’s mission is to empower everyone to take action on their data. They’ve pioneered the Composable Customer Data Platform (CDP), which helps companies use their own data warehouse to collect, prepare, and activate customer data for marketing personalization and business operations. You can learn more here.
James from CommandBar is growing their product team as they build an ai-powered user assistance tool. CommandBar is used by 20m+ end users. You can reach out to James here.
Co-founder searches / people to jam with:
Nic is an early stage operator with a VC background who is looking for someone to jam with for a week or so on new experiments and ideas (related to knowledge graph AI agents). Based in SF. Reach out if you are interested: me@nicbaird.net.
Repeat founder who previously sold sales AI company to growth-stage martech company seeking CTO/co-founder for next venture in GTM AI. The only hard requirement is a willingness to move to SF within the next year. Beyond that, ideally seeking someone who has been through early stage startup life and is familiar with the ups and downs. Please reach out here if you're interested in connecting.
Tanmay is looking for a co-founder to help scale their new AI product making easy to generate video creative assets. Was previously an early PM at Canva leading video and mobile (which won apple app of the year). Email tanmay@qwokka.io to learn more.
Moritz is a software engineer looking to start a new SaaS/AI/Marketplace company. He previously co-founded remnote.com (which scaled to 1m+ users, raised $2.8m from GC, and reached $1.2m of ARR). Reach out by email wallawitsch@gmail.com.
Roman, former YC founder, PM and engineer at Notion and Gusto is looking for a technical or GTM focused cofounder, ideally based in NYC. He’s in the early stages of prototyping and building the best financial products for modern double income couples: joint bank account and joint credit cards. If you’re interested, you can email Roman here: zubenkoroman@gmail.com.
Pierre recently moved from France to SF and is currently building better AI tutors with LLMs at DeepMind. He loves to brainstorm crazy startup ideas and quickly prototype, so he’s happy to meet and jam on ideas, make friends (you never know, meet a future co-founder) The best way to reach out is through Twitter or email pierrealexandre.kam@gmail.com.
Yonah spent years helping LPs deploy capital in venture funds. He went on to start Earlyview Capital, a financial services firm that provides solutions to UHNW clients looking to develop and manage their VC exposure. He's looking to get to know someone with a view to join as partner to run and scale it alongside him. Ideally someone based in Israel who is keen to tackle business development, strategy and operations. Reach out to hi@nextplay.so if you're interested in an intro.
Early team:
Austin from Howie is hiring a founding AI engineer. Howie manages your schedule directly through email, like an executive assistant. You can learn more here and reach out to Austin: founders@howie.ai.
Alexis from Dawn is hiring a founding backend engineer to help them scale their analytics platform for AI products. You can learn more and apply here.
Sreya from Merazine is hiring a founding engineer. Their mission is to turn online shopping into an immersive social gaming experience. If you are excited by consumer and gaming, you can email sreya@merazine.com.
Sphere helps US software companies manage their global indirect tax compliance. They are building the world's first tax-focused LLMs. And they are now growing 20%+ MoM. You can learn more about becoming a founding team member and apply here.
Avni is hiring a chief of staff / generalist to help scale Milo. Milo is the modern parent's AI copilot. There's no JD - the job is to help them do whatever it takes to grow from Seed to Series A. It's based in the Bay Area (Palo Alto), in-person 3-4 days/week. You can reach out here.
Scaled companies:
Shai from Brex is hiring relationship managers based in SF or NYC. The role involves managing early and growth stage startup clients of Brex (Brex is a unicorn-startup that helps other startups manage their finances and spend). You can reach out to Shai here.
Ryan from Flexport is hiring a Chief of Staff. Flexport’s mission is to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. You can learn more and apply here.
Instacart is looking for a Chief of Staff to support the Chief Financial Officer. You can learn more and apply here.
Venture:
NFX tries to run their venture fund a bit like a startup. They are one of the fastest growing seed and pre-seed venture funds in the US. They are hiring an investor — you can read more about the role and apply here.
Paige from Behind Genius Ventures (BGV) is hiring a part-time investment analyst. They invest ~$250k in the best early-stage, technical teams. They have designed the role for either a student or an operator 2-3 years into their career capable of working 15-20 hours per week. You can learn more and apply here.
Ed from Pareto Holdings is interviewing Entrepreneurs in Residence interested in a wide range of spaces: B2B SaaS, robotics, and e-commerce. You can reach out here.
Are you a founder looking to hire? Or know any under-the-radar opportunities we should share with the network? Reply directly to this email with a context blurb and we will consider including it in the next issue.
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