Get on the ground floor with the founding team of a pre-seed or seed-stage startup.
Charlie Horowitz & Tyler Presser just came out of stealth with a $10.75M seed for Eon, where they’re creating data superhighways for Earth’s critical infrastructure via a network of optical relay satellites. The team is hiring engineers right now across the board - electrical, mechanical, software, lasercom, GNC, optomechanical, and more. Apply here!
Jordan Sanders and David Hansen recently raised an $11M seed for Westmag to manufacture drone motors and robot actuators domestically, aiming to rebuild a piece of hardware supply chain that's almost entirely made overseas. They're hiring a Sales & BD Lead in SF to drive sales strategy and manage customer relationships with drone OEMs and robotics companies. Apply here!
Behnam Neyshabur, Harsh Mehta, Shayan Salehian, and Tara Rezaei - all out of Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI - recently came out of stealth with a $200M seed for Mirendil at a $1B valuation to build frontier AI systems that automate the research loop, so scientists outside big labs can run their own AI-driven experiments. They're hiring a Technical Chief of Staff, GTM & Operations for up to $400K in SF to be a force multiplier for the founders across GTM, ops, and strategy. Apply here!
Grace Li (prev Harvard, Apple engineering) just came out of stealth with a $7.9M seed for Intelligence. Her flagship product is DesignArena, a universal interface for accessing and evaluating AI capabilities. Grace is hiring a Technical Staff Member, Frontier Evals in SF to define how frontier models are measured. Apply here!
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Today, we're introducing @Intelligence_ai. In 6 months, as a team of 10, we scaled from $5M to $60M ARR and 5.5M users across 190+ countries. We raised a $7.9M seed, led by @IndexVentures with participation from @conviction, @A_StarVC, and @combinator to build DesignArena, a
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Accelerate the growth of a Series A, B, or C startup with early momentum.
Pablo Palafox just raised a $150M Series C for HappyRobot at a $1.2B valuation. He’s hiring a Chief of Staff in SF for up to $250K to be a force multiplier for the team. Looking for a high-output generalist who moves fluidly between big picture strategy and in-the-weeds execution. Apply here!
Ricard Boada and Sofia Gumuzio, former Brookfield infrastructure executives, just raised a Series A for Volta at a $2.4B valuation to build a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform - bundling powered land, data centers, compute, and capital so startups can access AI compute without financing it themselves. They’re hiring a Director of Product Management in Palo Alto to own product strategy across the platform’s control plane, orchestration, and security layers. Apply here!
Leo Mehr just left Ramp (where he was Dir of Eng) and is back at Lumos, the AI identity management company he co-founded with Andrej Safundzic back at Stanford (where they both got their masters in CS). They’re hiring an Enterprise Customer Success Manager to be the trusted partner to their largest and most strategic customers. You’ll guide partners through onboarding, ensure adoption and expansion, and influence both customer outcomes and Lumos’ product roadmap. Apply here!
Michael Kopko, founder and CEO of Pearl Health, recently raised $110M to expand Pearl's AI platform for Medicare providers, including agents that automate administrative work like wellness-visit scheduling and post-discharge follow-ups. He’s hiring a Chief People Officer in NYC to build out the people function as the company scales into Medicare Advantage. Apply here!
Isaiah Taylor just raised a $1B Series B for Valar Atomics, on a mission to scale nuclear energy for heavy industrial power and clean hydrocarbon fuel production. He’s hiring 50+ roles right now, including a Director of People Operations (in Torrance, CA) to build, implement, and scale the people systems, policies, and processes that support the rapidly growing org. Apply here!
Sanket Agarwal and Abhi Arora just closed a $25M Series B for Fleek, an AI-native marketplace for secondhand fashion. They're hiring a Commercial Director in London. Apply here!
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Join a growth-stage startup scaling to its next horizon.
Zach Dell just announced a $1B Series D for Base Power - as well as “Base Core,” a first-of-its-kind home battery. He’s hiring across the board in Austin, TX - including a GTM Finance & Biz Ops Lead. You’ll own the economics of acquisition end-to-end in partnership with Base’s GTM operators - including pricing, CAC, member pipeline efficiency, market sizing, and the penetration curve as Base expands beyond Texas. Apply here!
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Today, we're launching Base Core, our own battery designed & built in Texas, and announcing our $1B Series D to bring it to homes across the country. Three years ago, we started Base with a belief that batteries were the unlock to energy abundance. We saw battery storage as the
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Function Health just raised $450M in growth financing to scale their tech-enabled preventive health platform. They’re hiring an AI Lead - Product Engineering to define and lead a visionary AI infra roadmap for the company. Apply here!
Travis Henry from Temporal is actively hiring for two roles on the RevOps team - a Director of GTM Strategy & Analytics, and a GTM Compensation & Insights Manager. DM him if you’re interested!
Anduril is hiring a Senior Production Software Engineer for up to $253K - where you'll be responsible for developing product-agnostic software solutions for Anduril’s production teams. Apply here!
Waymo is hiring a Strategy Manager for up to $259K. You’ll drive GTM / commercial strategy projects, conduct rigorous qual & quant analyses, and distill insights and recommendations for leadership. Apply here!
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