Get on the ground floor with the founding team of a pre-seed or seed-stage startup.
Viren Shetty (prev co-founder/COO at TourHero) just raised a $6M seed for Foremark Legal to build an agentic, outcome-based consumer law firm. He’s building out the founding team - DM him if you’re interested in getting involved!
Viren Shetty@realvirenshetty
1/ Lawyers and SPV managers are the only two professions that take little directional risk. Everyone else eats their own cooking. Today we are announcing our $6M seed for Foremark Legal, the world's first agentic, outcome-based consumer law firm🧵
3:39 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 248K Views
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Hercules is hiring an AI Operations Lead for up to $250K (remote). You’ll lead support and operations for their AI app builder, owning the customer experience end-to-end and building the AI automations that let it scale without scaling headcount. Apply here!
Mirendil is hiring a Technical Chief of Staff - GTM & Operations in SF for up to $400K. You’ll be a force multiplier for the founders across go-to-market, ops, and strategy as they build frontier AI systems that automate the research loop itself. Apply here!
Probook is hiring a Founding Design Engineer in NYC for up to $230K. You’ll shape the design standard for their AI operating system for home services from the ground up - no established design system to inherit, just a blank slate and a category still being defined. Apply here!
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Accelerate the growth of a Series A, B, or C startup with early momentum.
Nicolas Kopp just announced a $100M Series C for Rillet at a $1B valuation! He’s hiring an Account Executive (remote in the UK) to build the GTM playbook from scratch - running strategic outreach to CFOs and finance leaders, driving deals from SQL to signed, and shaping Rillet's GTM motion as the AI-native ERP scales past its first UK hire. Apply here!
Nicolas Kopp@nicckopp
Today we're announcing our $100M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by @ICONIQCapital. It's our third round in 14 months and brings our total funding to over $200m The round came together in less than 48 hours. We weren't planning to raise. Then new ARR doubled last quarter and
11:53 PM · Aug 18, 2026 · 57.6K Views
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Reducto is hiring an Account Executive, Growth in SF for up to $270K. You’ll drive deals from prospecting to close for their document-ingestion platform (used by Harvey, Vanta, and Scale), while shaping the sales playbook alongside the founding team as they scale. Apply here!
Mind Robotics is hiring a Simulation & Validation Software Engineer in Palo Alto, CA for up to $205K. You’ll build the test infrastructure and simulation pipelines that let firmware, controls, and runtime teams validate industrial robots without breaking physical hardware in the process. Apply here!
Hilbert is hiring a Performance Marketing Lead in SF for up to $210K. You’ll own customer paid-media onboarding across Meta, Google, and TikTok, then build the integrations that feed Hilbert’s predictive outputs back into ad platforms as conversion signals. Apply here!
Sesame is hiring a People Lead for up to $280K (SF or Bellevue). This is a highly hands-on leadership role for someone who can build the People function while also serving as a trusted partner to the leadership team on decisions that shape the company. Apply here!
OpenRouter is hiring a Data Scientist for up to $240K (remote). You'll mine billions of LLM generations to improve model and provider routing, owning questions end-to-end - from framing the problem to shipping new analytics features that help customers understand and optimize their own AI usage. Apply here!
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Join a growth-stage startup scaling to its next horizon.
Etched just raised $700M at a $21B valuation (!) and shipped their first rack to Jane Street. If you’re excited to tackle the challenges required to run the world’s inference - the team is hiring across the board. Apply here!
Etched@Etched
We've raised $700M at a $21B valuation from Jane Street, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, A16Z, Peter Thiel, BCV, and Blackstone. We're also excited to share that we've shipped our first rack to Jane Street.
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Decagon is hiring an Agent Experience Designer for up to $200K. You’ll shape what great AI conversation experiences sound like across chat, voice, SMS, and email for customers like Cash App and Chime - evaluating voice quality, building evaluation rubrics, and advising enterprise customers directly on conversation design. Apply here!
Databricks is hiring a Field Engineering Enablement Leader for up to $235K. You’ll design and run technical enablement programs that raise the bar for Databricks’ Field Engineering org, building and leading a team of enablers who turn product depth into trusted-advisor credibility with customers. Apply here!
Temporal is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Traffic for up to $280K. You’ll lead technical strategy for traffic management, network optimization, and cloud orchestration - driving architecture decisions and co-authoring the long-term roadmap for Temporal’s networking infrastructure as it scales globally. Apply here!
Base Power Company is hiring a GTM Strategy & Operations Partner in Austin, TX. It’s an intentionally undefined generalist seat - one month you’re standing up a new market launch, the next you’re building the system that makes it scale, working across every surface of Base’s growth motion from channels to geographies to product. Apply here!
EliseAI is hosting two events next month for sales pros at hyper-growth companies to swap war stories over drinks and food. Spots are limited - RSVP below!
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