VC chief of staff, early Monday.com team, former Monzo founder
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.
Maybe obvious but hopefully helpful reminder - you may be just one cold email away from changing your life. We have seen it happen time and time again: people emailing a hiring manager or co-founder and a few weeks later they have found their new opportunity. We really see this happening every week - so if you are at all on the fence, here’s your encouragement 🙂.
Co-founders and people to jam with:
Sam previously was the founder/CTO of the largest freelance marketplace in the Shopify ecosystem. He’s now working on Superfluent.com - an AI language learning app that gets 100s of signups a day completely organically. He’s looking for a cofounder to help own growth. Reach out: sam@superfluent.com.
Ezra previously launched Harry Potter and Batman while at Warner Brothers and has spent time as a marketing director at a video game studio. He wants to bring AI to social video games, and is looking for a co-founder. Reach out: ez.greene@icloud.com.
Sam, former Growth Lead at Lemonade, is looking for a technical co-founder to help build “HenryOS” - an “emotional operating system for modern relationships.” Reach out: sam@setmeuphenry.com.
Cole is a former founder and data scientist by training who has spent most of his career building AI/ML products in healthcare. Having spent a a lot of time manually building and tuning models himself, he is exploring advancements in generalizable tabular foundation models (like TabPFN) and potential infrastructure opportunities. If you're interested in brainstorming or jamming, please reach out to coleroberts@duck.com.
If you’d like to meet a co-founder, or just generally meet other-like minded people, be sure to check out Friends of Next Play. When you join, you get invited to our private Slack community and get listed in our internal directory. Just last week, someone messaged us saying: “Friends of Next Play is the most valuable community I’ve ever been a part of. I love seeing so many virtual events and have met some really amazing people.” Join here.
Early teams:
Brendan from Sunset is building a platform that helps companies shut down smoothly. They are hiring a customer success manager, a founding product manager, and a founding product designer. Apply here. (NYC)
Kickoff is building an all-in-one personal training and nutrition platform. They are hiring a chief of staff, a business operations person, and a senior product engineer. Apply here. (NYC)
Cathy from Caro is building a headcount management platform for enterprise teams. They have years of runway and are hiring a founding engineer. Apply here. (SF)
Stav previously was an early employee at Monday.com. She’s now working on Alta, an “AI-powered outbound pipeline.” Alta recently raised $7m and is hiring an account executive and a “junior GTM builder.” Apply here. (Tel Aviv)
Mike from Vesta is building a next generation mortgage loan operating system. They are hiring an implementation manager. Apply here. (Remote)
The former founder/CTO of Monzo recently started Iterate.com. They raised $12m and have assembled a team of technical former founders. Their goal is to help companies “automate their operations.” They are hiring more full-stack engineers. Reach out: hiring@nustom.com. (London)
Arthur from Agentio just raised a $12m round from Benchmark. They are building an ad platform for creator content. They are hiring salespeople, an operations manager, and software engineers. Apply here. (NYC)
A team from Google, Apple, Databricks, Stanford, and Cambridge is building Confident Security: a security platform for ai providers and labs. They are hiring a senior software engineer. Apply here. (Remote)
Alex previously helped create the now-famous Stripe documentation. He’s now building Stainless. They raised $35m to help companies create great APIs, and they are hiring biz ops people, engineers, and salespeople. Apply here. (NYC, Remote)
Eugene previously founded/was CTO of Blend, a now-public fintech company. He’s now building Realm, a platform that helps industrial operations prevent failures before they happen which can save millions in lost revenue. They are hiring for business development, operations, and engineering. Apply here. (Remote)
Davit from Activeloop is building Deep Lake, a database for AI that already has 8.5k+ stars on Github. They are hiring a head of marketing/growth and engineers. Apply here. (SF)
Mike from Red Circle is hiring a revenue operations data analyst. They help podcasters better monetize and manage their businesses. Apply here. (LA, Boston)
John from Campfire is building an accounting automation platform. They are hiring engineers and designers. Apply here. (SF)
Andrei from Console is building an “autopilot platform for modern IT departments.” They are hiring for GTM, product, and engineering. Apply here. (SF)
The Interaction Company of California is hiring design engineers and “other” candidates. Apply here. (SF)
Scaling startups:
Applied Intuition is building an “AI-powered” toolchain for the vehicle/autonomy economy. They raised $250m last year at a $6 billion valuation and are hiring for every role: engineering, operations, marketing. Apply here. (SF)
Jimmy from Modern Treasury is hiring a GTM Strategy and Analytics Lead. They have raised $100m+ to build an AI Plaform for Payments. Apply here. (SF, NYC, Remote)
Matt from Paradromics is building a brain-computer-interface company. They are hiring a head of people to lead their team of 70. Apply here. (Austin)
Michelle from Wheel.com is building a virtual care platform. They are hiring operations people, full-time and contractors. Apply here. (Remote)
Richard from Mews is building a hospitality management platform. They recently raised a new round of $75 million, and are hiring for 37 roles: revenue operations, analytics, product, and more. Apply here. (Remote, UK)
Shay from Unframe is building a managed AI delivery platform that has enterprise customers like Cushman & Wakefield. They are hiring for 15 roles: marketing, engineering, and sales. Apply here. (Remote, NYC, Israel)
Urlik from Encord is building a platform that helps other companies manage, curate, and annotate AI data. They are hiring for every department: sales, customer success, design, and engineering. Apply here. (London, SF)
Dhaivat from Verse Medical is building ai-enabled ordering of medical equipment and supplies. They have recently raised a Series B and are hiring a partnerships person and a vendor relations person. Apply here and reach out: jaimeletourneau@versemedical.com. (NYC)
Fiona from Overstory is building software that helps utilities optimze resources to mitigate vegetation risk and enable safer communities. They are hiring customer success people, marketers, events managers, and engineers. Apply here. (Remote)
Here’s a list we made of 33 post product-market-fit companies.
Investing and other:
Camille was previously the head of marketing at Notion and First Round Capital. She’s now a startup investor at XYZ and is hiring a “right-hand partner” to work on community at the fund. Apply here. (SF)
Ed from Pareto was recently named one of the most active angel investors in the startup ecosystem (900+ companies invested in to-date!). They’re hiring a chief of staff that’ll help incubate new companies. Reach out here: anika@pareto20.com. (NYC, SF)
Hayley from First Round Capital is hiring a Chief of Staff. Apply here. (NYC)
Featured resources and products:
Questions to ask before you join a startup: List of questions for job-seekers before they join a company.
Artyom, a Next Play community member, is building Rye, an easy to use meal-tracking platform.
Understanding the 37 most valuable private startups: A guide to understanding revenue multiples and what it may mean for your job search.
We are hoping to feature more community-made projects via the newsletter. Ping us in Slack if you are working on something that may be a fit!
Note:
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Thanks for reading the newsletter! Extra thanks this week to the many engaged members of the community who have gone out of their way to be helpful to other community members. We love hearing and seeing stories of people receiving mentorship, product feedback, and frankly just making like-minded friends via the Next Play network. If there are things we can do or directions we can help point you in - email us: hi@nextplay.so.