Volume 34

(1) We’re excited to share that we’ve closed Cohort 1!

We’re doubling down on helping founders hire and placing top talent at fast growing companies.→ Founders interested in hiring who want access to our talent network, apply for membership here.

→ Candidates looking for a new role, apply to the talent network here (100% free).

Coworking:

• [NYC] Coffee & Cowork, 7/17 (Friday)

  • Coworking and hang for members in NYC.

• [SF] Coffee & Cowork, 7/17 (Friday)

  • Coworking and hang for members in SF.

Other events:

• [NYC] Wellness Event, 7/17 (Friday)

  • Private wellness event for members.

• [NYC] Poker Night, 7/22 (Wednesday)

  • For Founders. Poker at a private venue.

• [NYC] Game Night, 7/23 (Thursday)

  • Poker and assorted games.

• [SF] Design Hackathon, 7/30 (Friday)

  • For SF's best designers, engineers, and builders.

• Y Combinator (Fall 2026)

  • Deadline: July 27

  • 3-month in-person batch in SF; $500K on standard terms, warm investor pipeline + alumni network

• South Park Commons - Founder Fellowship (Fall 2026)

  • Deadline: August 2

  • Built for the “-1 to 0” phase; up to $1M total ($400K upfront + $600K guaranteed next round)

Member submitted:

• Mantis Biotech: Digital twins for biomedical + sports-tech research. Founding Engineer (Brooklyn, NY)

• Tessera Labs: Agentic automation for the enterprise. Deployed Engineer (NYC, SF, Remote)

• Reasonal AI: Agent-led investment bank. Founding Engineer (NYC)

• Doctours: Expedia for medical travel. Forward Deployed Engineer (NYC, SF)

• LlamaIndex: Document OCR for the agentic stack. Developer Advocate (San Francisco)

• inTrial: All in one legal tech platform. Senior Software Engineer (NYC)

• Arcanist: Agents. Founding Engineer (New York, NY)

• Wellspoken: AI speaking coach. Product Design Intern (Remote)

• Earshot.to: AI creators that sell your app. Ops Hustler (San Francisco)

Other roles:

• Anthropic: AI safety and Claude. Software Engineer, Research Engineer (San Francisco / New York / Seattle)

• OpenAI: ChatGPT and frontier models. Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (San Francisco)

• Anysphere (Cursor): AI code editor. Software Engineer, ML Engineer (San Francisco)

• Perplexity: AI answer engine. Software Engineer, Design Engineer (San Francisco / New York)

• xAI: Elon Musk’s frontier AI lab. Software Engineer, ML Engineer (Palo Alto / San Francisco)

• Scale AI: Data engine for frontier models. Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (San Francisco / New York)

• ElevenLabs: AI audio and voice. Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (New York / London)

• Runway: AI video and creative tools. Software Engineer, ML Engineer (New York)

• Ramp: Corporate spend and finance automation. Software Engineer, Product Engineer (New York)

• Clay: AI go-to-market and sales platform. Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer (New York)

• Hebbia: AI for finance and knowledge work. Software Engineer, Product Engineer (New York)

• Vercel: Frontend cloud and v0. Software Engineer, Product Engineer (San Francisco / Remote)

• Notion: Connected workspace with AI. Software Engineer (San Francisco / New York)

• Modal: Serverless compute for AI. Software Engineer (New York / San Francisco)

• Baseten: Model inference infrastructure. Software Engineer (San Francisco / Remote)

• Cartesia: Real-time voice models. Research Engineer, Software Engineer (San Francisco)

• Figure: Humanoid robots. Software Engineer, Robotics Engineer (Sunnyvale, CA)

• Cognition: Maker of Devin and Windsurf. Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (San Francisco / New York)

• Harvey: Legal AI for law firms. Software Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (New York / San Francisco)

• Together AI: Open-model cloud and inference. Software Engineer, ML Engineer (San Francisco)

ft. Our first member dinner in SF

See you next week,
Maggie + Jonas

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