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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.
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Co-founders and people to jam with:
Ari previously sold a company and was the first commercial hire at 11x (the AI SDR startup) and scaled it from $0 to $15m+ ARR. He’s now a scout for a16z and is exploring b2b AI and travel tech. Looking for a co-founder, especially someone technical, to build a big company. Reach out: ari.posner96@gmail.com.
Samyr has started a series B edtech company where he raised $20m as CEO. He’s now exploring AI-driven ideas in elder care/re-skilling. He’s looking for people to jam/explore these themes. Reach out: hi@samyr.co.
An anonymous director-level operator currently at a $70M+ series A music tech startup wants to build a product for dental insurance submission and collection (revenue cycle management) space. Reach out to hi@nextplay.so and we’ll try to connect you.
A former Google AI product leader turned startup builder wants to build AI-native professional services for SMBs. He’s looking for a commercially minded cofounder with industry/domain-expertise. Reach out: rainmaker.meet.alchemist@gmail.com. (NYC, SF, Miami)
If you are looking to meet like-minded people (like cofounders or collaborators or friends), we just launched a new people directory for Friends of Next Play. When you join, you get access to our private directory as well as a Slack group and $1000s worth of discounts to our favorite products (like Airtable - $500 off, Superhuman - 6 months free, Perplexity - 3 months free, and more!). Join here.
Early teams:
Matt from Sett is hiring a chief of staff. They are building alternatives to tobacco products. Apply here and reach out: careers@getsett.co (SF, Austin, Remote)
Abacus is hiring a founding engineer to help build the future of tax. The company is <6 months old with six-figures of live revenue and recently closed a large seed round from a tier one VC fund. Reach out: cody@getabacus.com. (NYC)
George was previously a professional poker player and started/sold a company for $120m. He’s now building Atlas, a revenue automation platform for finance leaders. They are hiring a founding full-stack engineer. Apply here. (NYC)
Rillet is hiring a founding partnerships lead, a founding product marketer, and an account executive. They are building an AI-native ERP/accounting platform. Apply here. (Remote, NYC)
Alex from Neon is hiring a founding business/operations person. Neon allows users to sell their anonymized data. They just raised a preseed, and are also hiring a mobile engineer. Apply here. (NYC)
Max from Yuzu Health is hiring for operations, design, and engineering. They are building a next-gen health insurance company. Recently, they paid $527,329.22 in claims in a single day. Apply here. (NYC)
Tony from Infisical is hiring marketers, engineers, and salespeople. They are building a secrets management platform. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Yasser from Chatbase is hiring a developer advocate to create Youtube videos and tutorials for their community. They are building a platform to help businesses build and deploy AI agents. Apply here. (Remote)
Raunaq from Roam is hiring salespeople as they recently raised an $11.5m Series A. Roam helps you find and buy new homes with assumable mortgages. Apply here. (NYC)
Maruthi (early global products at Rippling) from Blue AI is building a live call coach for customer conversations. They are hiring an AI engineer. Apply here. (Remote, NYC, Bengaluru)
Doji is building a fun shopping platform. They just raised a $14m seed round. They are hiring a founding marketer and operations lead. Apply here. (NYC)
Noumena is an artificial intelligence research lab and product company dedicated to building artificial general intelligence. They are hiring researchers, engineers, and designers. Apply here. (SF, Remote)
Champ from Capsule is building a video editing platform designed for the enterprise. They are hiring a creative director, product designer, motion engineer, head of customer success, and salespeople. Apply here. (Remote, LA)
Anish from Cortex is hiring engineers, salespeople, and a lead product manager. They are building an internal developer platform. Apply here. (Remote)
Scaling startups:
Lucy from Wordware raised a $30m seed round, one of the largest in YC history. They are building a IDE for building agents using natural language. They have 11 open roles: engineers, growth people, former founders, and product marketers. They work 5 days a week in the office. Apply here. (SF)
Victor from Krea recently raised $83m to build a one-stop shop for generative AI creatives (photos, videos, audio, text). They are hiring marketers, community people, GTM people, engineers, and more. Apply here. (SF)
Brett from Vannevar Labs is a defense company that is already profitable. They are hiring designers, strategists, operators, and engineers. Apply here. (Remote, SF)
Ayush from Warp is hiring for nearly every department: GTM, engineering, operations, and more. They are building an automated back-office platform for startups and have raised over $24m. Apply here. (NYC)
Ed from GptZero just crossed $16 million in ARR. In a single day in May, they added $250k of ARR. They are building an AI-text identification platform, to try and restore transparency on the internet. They are hiring a growth product lead, their first product manager, a controller, and engineers. Learn more here and apply here. (NYC, Toronto)
Crux is hiring a founding product marketer. They are building a capital markets platform for the clean economy. They recently raised $77m. Apply here. (Remote)
Michelle from Anrok is building a global sales tax automation platform that just expanded into physical goods. They have raised $50m+ from investors like Sequoia and are hiring a partnerships leader. Apply here. (SF, NYC, Salt Lake City)
Raman from Perplexity is looking for someone entrepreneurial to lead global student growth. Perplexity is building an ai-powered search engine, and is rumored to be in talks to raise at a $14 billion valuation. Apply here and reach out: raman@perplexity.ai. (SF, NYC)
Base is building a modern power company. They have 47 open jobs: engineers, business operations, growth, and more. Apply here. (Austin)
Patrick, founder of Stripe! and cofounder of Arc Institute, is hiring a “Chief Scientific Officer” as well as engineers, accountants, and scientists. Arc’s goal is to build the world's first virtual cell + use it to develop cures to complex diseases like Alzheimer's. Learn more here. (SF)
Dr. Thomas from Heidi is building a platform that “gives every clinician a free AI resident to halve the time it takes to deliver world-class care.” They have tens of thousands of clinicians as customers and are one of Australia’s fastest growing companies. They have 32 open roles: people, sales, operations, marketing, and more. Apply here. (Remote, Australia)
Partiful is a social event planning platform. They are hiring GTM managers across the US. Apply here. (Remote, NYC)
Here’s a list we made of 33 post-product-market-fit companies.
Are you hiring? Send us an email hi@nextplay.so and we’ll give you access to the new Next Play hiring platform that helps you meet great candidates. In the last few weeks we have heard from several companies who have made hires using the platform. One founder called the platform the “most useful hiring tool they have ever used.”
Investing and other:
Cory from Z Fellows is hiring to help scale their fellowship and fund. The role has “no-title” but it is all about finding and helping propel undiscovered, first-time technical founders. Apply here. (Remote)
Entrepreneurs First is hiring an investor to launch their SF presence. Apply here. (SF)
Unusual Ventures is hiring an operations manager. Apply here.
Featured resources and products:
HUMAN: An essay about a movie idea involving machines and humans. May help you think about the future with/without technology. May also just be a fun read!
Scout: A tool (we helped make!) that helps you identify/engage with great engineers for hiring. Also can automate Linkedin outreach.
How to increase your salary and understand your market rate: An interview with compensation and negotiation expert Josh Doody.
I feel guilty when I'm not recruiting: An essay from a community member sharing tips for dealing with being unemployed.
CalBot: An AI-powered email scheduling assistant prototyped by a member from the Next Play community.
Note:
Last week, we received a note from someone that felt really amazing to read, as they told us how Next Play has been invaluable in their journey. They said they met someone via the community who gave them critical feedback on their company, eventually leading them to grow their product, get into an accelerator, and raise a pre-seed round. We love hearing these types of stories - whether that be joining an in-person meetup or having a virtual chat with someone or finding a job through the platform - love to hear people gaining momentum as they figure out their next play. We know the whole process can be challenging so if there’s ever anything extra we can be doing send us an email hi@nextplay.so and we’d love to figure something out. We’re also on Slack as well :).
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