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opportunities at breakout startups, co-founder searches, and early teams hiring

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Co-founders and people to jam with:

• Eran is the former founder/CTO of a startup and a lifelong software engineer. He’s looking to find a business oriented co-founder to explore new products that can make peoples’ lives better. Reach out: eranbet@gmail.com.

• Dylan is the chief business officer of a startup that’s raised $30m. He’s exploring fintech, healthcare, climate, and AI, and is looking for ambitious collaborators. Reach out: dylan.terrill@gmail.com.

• Todd is a senior software engineer looking to build new products with AI agents and chat with collaborators. Reach out: zero.waverlyst@gmail.com.

• Zach previously led product at a Sequoia backed company from Seed to Series B and also is the owner of a baseball bat company that has MLB players using their bats. He’s working on a new project at the nexus of sports and AI and already has funding. Reach out: kurtzzach2@gmail.com.

• Here’s 23 startup ideas we sourced from founders and investors in the Next Play community.

Early teams:

• Jacky from Relevance AI is building teams of AI agents that hope to deliver human-quality work. They are hiring solutions engineers and account executives. Apply here. (SF, Sydney)

• Michael from Accrue is hiring an enterprise client strategist. They are building a platform that powers customer loyalty programs. Apply here. (NYC)

• Alexander from Channel3 is building a database of every product on the internet. They are hiring a founding engineer. Apply here. (NYC)

• Adam from Beam is hiring a marketing lead and a customer success associate. They are building an ai assistant and platform for the contracting industry. They announced they recently doubled their growth rate after announcing some new features. Apply here. (SF, Austin)

• Josh from Central is hiring marketers, salespeople, and ops people. They are building a back-office platform for startups, and just raised $8.6 million from First Round Capital. Apply here. (Remote)

• Joel from Bright Harbor is hiring a customer operations lead and a social media manager. They are building a personalized platform that helps people during natural disasters. Apply here. (Austin)

• Antoine previously founded and sold Zenly to Snapchat for hundreds of millions of dollars. They are now building Amo, a hopefully new kind of social media platform. They are hiring a recruiter and a product manager. Apply here. (Paris)

• Toby from Lightship is building an all-electric RV. They are hiring an accountant and a procurement specialist. Apply here. (SF, Denver)

• 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 and Brand Designer to join their growing team of mainly ex-founders. They also have a role specifically for former founders. Apply here (SF).

• Simo from Folk is building a sales assistant and CRM. They are hiring a sales development representative. Apply here. (Remote, Paris)

• Here’s a list of companies started by founders who previously sold their first startup.

Are you hiring? Send us an email: hi@nextplay.so. We’d love to connect you to great candidates and share your roles with the community.

Scaling startups:

• Quinten sold his previous startup for $300 million. He’s now building Portola, where their mission is to give every person on earth an AI companion. They’ve built a best-selling app and raised $20m recently. They are hiring engineers, designers, and have a general application. Apply here. (SF)

• Shayne from Polymarket is building the world’s largest prediction market, and recently was rumored to be raising $200m+ at a $1.25 billion+ valuation from Founders Fund. They are hiring a market lead/generalist and customer support people. Apply here. (Remote, NYC)

• Mikey from Suno is building an AI music platform that has raised $125m+. They are hiring for creator partnerships, a head of people, a copywriter, and more. Apply here. (Boston, NYC, LA)

• Nico from Fundamental Research Labs has made 6 hires in the last 2 weeks. They are looking to hire 10 more people (former founders, engineers, agent builders, etc.), and paying $240k to $500k cash. They are building a general purpose agent for builders. Apply here. (SF)

• Nicolas from Attio just announced they raised a $52m Series B. They are building an ai-powered CRM. They are hiring a revenue operations lead, a senior product manager, a head of growth marketing, and salespeople. Apply here. (London, NYC, SF)

• Erez from Freed is hiring an account executive, a product manager, and marketers. They are building an AI-powered medical scribe for clinicians. Apply here. (SF, NYC)

• Joshua from Debut is hiring a senior account manager. They are building a biotech platform to build beauty products faster. Apply here. (San Diego)

• David from Midjourney recently announced a big partnership with Meta and supposedly have over $500m in revenue with less than a 40 person fully self-funded team. They are hiring engineers and have an open application. They are building creative tools with AI. Apply here. (SF, Remote)

• Koen from Framer just announced a $100m Series D. They are building a no-code website builder for designers. They are hiring a partnerships manager, a social media marketer, and engineers. Apply here. (Remote)

• Alex from Bluefish is hiring for 10+ open roles across product, growth, and sales. They are building an AI search engine optimization platform. Apply here. (NYC, Remote)

• Sam from Copper is hiring a director of business development and a customer service associate. They are building a new type of home appliance that’s a bit like an induction stove. Apply here. (NYC, SF)

• Jeffery from Assort Health has 17 open roles across finance, biz ops, engineering, recruiting, and more. They are building a voice AI platform for the healthcare industry, and just raised a $50m Series B. Apply here. (SF)

• Daniel from Choco is building an ai platform for food and beverage distributors. They are hiring a customer success manager and salespeople. Apply here. (Berlin, London, Remote)

• Zack from Stedi recently announced a $70m financing round led by Stripe for their programmable healthcare clearing house. They are hiring GTM engineers, customer success people, account executives, and more. Apply here. (Remote)

• Grant from Gamma is building an ai-powered presentations platform that has reached $50m in ARR with just a 28 person team. They are hiring a product manager, a b2b marketing lead, and engineers. Apply here. (SF)

• Zeb from Clickup is hiring for dozens of roles across product, growth, and engineering. They are trying to build an everything app for productivity. Apply here. (Remote, London)

• Here’s a list we made of the fastest growing startup teams.

Investing and other:

• Nikunj was previously an operator at Meter and Opendoor. Now he’s investing in startups and hiring a hacker in residence - someone to build internal AI tools to make the startup investing process better. Apply here. (SF)

• Iconiq Capital is hiring an investment associate. Apply here. (NYC)

• Southpark Commons is a fellowship program that helps early stage founders. They are hiring a business operations associate. Apply here. (SF, NYC)

• Cherry Ventures is hiring a chief of staff. Apply here. (Berlin)

Featured resources and products:

• Vibecoding on Replit: From Idea to Multi-Sided Platform in 13 Evenings.

• Are best practices best?: An essay about startup best practices

• Free Ideas: A bunch of ideas, for free.

• Behind the scenes with startups: Check out our series of Next Play Spotlights where we find out what it’s like to work at hot startups like Clay, Thatch, Delphi, and more. (And if you’d like us to cover your startup - send us a quick email: hi@nextplay.so)

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