next play opportunities 8/20
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Hey, 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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Exciting opportunities:
Raunaq from Roam is hiring for go-to-market people (salespeople, marketers, engineers). Roam makes homeownership 2x more affordable (via a 2% assumable mortgage). They are growing very quickly. You can reach out here: raunaq@withroam.com.
Dani from Jam.dev is hiring a chief of staff to help focus on growth. Jam helps teams fix bugs faster. They recently raised $10M and now has 130,000+ users. You can reach out via hi@nextplay.so and we’ll try to connect you directly.
Dan from Every is hiring an entrepreneur in residence. May be a fit for someone interested in doing contract work while exploring their own projects. You can reach out here: dan.shipper@every.to.
South Park Commons (SPC) is hiring a chief of staff for their general partners. SPC is a community of people working on projects going from the -1 to 0 stage. This role will work directly with the general partners. You can learn more and apply here.
Nicolas from Attio is building a next generation CRM. Their whole company is set to 2-3x over the next 12 months. You can apply here.
Early teams:
We know a bunch of startups looking to hire the best sales (account executives, sales development representatives) and customer success people. If you haven’t already, fill out out this form and we’ll try to connect you directly if there’s a fit. We’ve already matched lots of candidates and it seems to be working quite well.
Katherine from Chapter is helping American seniors navigate retirement. They are hiring a product person to help work on new products and drive company strategy. They work in-person in NYC. You can reach out here: katherine@getchapter.com.
A stealth startup is building a new type of “tech/AI-enabled, luxury concierge.” One of the founders previously sold a tech-enabled concierge to a major US bank for $300m. They are hiring for several roles, especially a product designer. You can reach out here: jonahlowenstein@gmail.com.
Nick from Scribe is hiring someone to help run community. Scribe makes it easy for teams to create step-by-step guides. The product has gone viral and they’ve created an organic community of power-users. You can learn more and apply here.
Claudia is building an insight engine for enterprise data. They are hiring a founding tech lead to join their team (which includes people from places like Jane Street and Lockheed). You can reach out here.
Tom Bachant and his cofounder previously built a SaaS company that was acquired by Cruise and now they’re building Unthread. They’re helping companies run support on Slack with AI-powered ticketing. They're hiring a senior software engineer and a founding account executive in New York. You can learn more and apply here.
Former Lemonade PM, Max Kane, is building Novella. They’re trying to change the way the most complicated insurance policies are sold. They’re funded and hiring a senior designer and engineer in Tel Aviv. Learn more and apply here.
Jake Stauch and his cofounder were formerly product and engineering leaders at Verkada. They’re now building Serval an AI copilot for IT teams. Their goal is to take on legacy players like ServiceNow, a $150bn IT ticketing company. They’re building a platform for AI agents to resolve IT issues instead of humans. They are hiring a founding engineer in Bay Area, reach out directly jake@serval.com.
The founder of Casper is building Slingshot - a series A company trying to build a foundation model for psychology. They are hiring a chief of staff/generalist to help everything run optimally (some percentage special projects, some percentage operations, some percentage product, etc.). You can apply here.
Marina Pavlovic Rivas is a repeat founder building Eli Health. They’re trying to transform hormone health monitoring with easy-to-use saliva-based tests. They recently raised a new round of funding and are hiring for a bunch of roles. You can apply here.
Co-founder searches:
Ludwig, one of the first designers from Stripe and OpenAI, is looking for an engineer to help on a new project he’s been hacking on. You can email him here: luddep@gmail.com.
An engineer with experience being a founding engineer from zero to post Series B startup is looking for a potential co-founder or a new friend to bounce ideas off. email hi@nextplay.so to get introduced.
Roy is a former founding engineer at startups across cybersecurity, healthcare, and market research. He’s looking for a co-founder for an ongoing bootstrapped AI project. Ideally looking for a domain expert in the behavioral health space or adjacent. Feel free to reach out roy.outreach@pm.me.
Palle and his co-founder (technical) are looking for a third technical co-founder (ideally fullstack) to help build an AI native immigration solution. They are both former early Uber employees and based in NYC. They are working with a few immigration firms and have a working MVP. You can reach out pallebroe@gmail.com.
Yalin is a former YouTube content exec and founder based in London. He's exploring a few ideas around 'social media' post Web2.0, gaming and film overlaps, and disrupting email. Yalin is looking to jam with people interested in these areas (especially technical and marketing people). You can reach out ysolmaz@gmail.com.
A former Marvel/Disney exec who has also helped scale several startups to exit (Fandango, Giphy) and successfully raised capital for companies in B2C marketplace, AI-powered media and biotech sectors is seeking to partner with technical co-founders on building in the AI-powered media space. You can reach out: peter.k.phillips6@gmail.com.
Tara is lookin for co-founders/partners to build a platform to help creators and athletes launch community-backed VC funds. You can reach out here: tara@reinpartners.co.
Breakout startups:
Noor, the CEO of Orchid, is hiring someone good at “hustling, creativity, and storytelling” to report directly to her. Orchid helps people have more healthy babies as they are building the world’s first whole genome embryo screen. You can DM Noor here.
A fast-growing European company which just closed a $60 million Series A is starting to expand internationally and looking for someone to help GM setting up US operations. You can reach out here.
Vishesh from Pillar is looking to hire their first growth person. Pillar tries to help protect businesses from macroeconomic risk by automatically hedging their currency, commodities, and freight exposure. They recently raised a seed round. You can reach out here: vishesh@pillarhq.com.
Eight Sleep is building a sleep fitness company—they’re mission is to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. They are hiring a product designer. You can reach out here.
Krishna from Transcend is hiring a senior product manager. They are building a full-stack privacy platform. You can learn more and apply here.
Submagic helps creators make viral shorts using AI. They are growing very quickly (and they are completely bootstrapped). They are a small, fully remote team. You can learn more here.
Second time founder, Jeremy Schwach, is building Hummingbird Healthcare. They use technology to try to make patient access better for doctors and patients. They recently closed their Series A and will be hiring for 100+ roles in the next 6 months. Learn more and apply here.
Note:
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Our latest podcast episode with Camille Ricketts is now live. Camille is a partner at XYZ Venture Capital, previously she was the first marketing leader at Notion, editor at First Round Review and early Comms at Tesla. We spoke about how important serendipity is in your career, learnings from the early days at Notion, and more. Listen here (includes link to Spotify, Apple, etc.)
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