AI for workers comp, sales call performance, and real-world robotics
early teams, breakout companies, and more
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Only 20-30 of the startups founded every year matter in the long run. Those that matter become Stripe, Airbnb, Uber, or Notion ā generational defining companies.
Every week, I search for these 20-30 startups. These are startups with 1) exceptional founders, 2) tackling interesting problems, and 3) are hiring now (cause hiring = growth).
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Highlight opportunity: Landbase
The former founder of AppDirect, Daniel Saks, is back again with his newest venture. Landbase is using AI to streamline go-to-market efforts for growing companies. Their proprietary AI model, GTM-1 Omni, is trained on hundreds of hours of human work to automate the mundane tasks involved in outbound sales (prospecting, intelligent outreach, market intelligence, etc.).
Landbase is growing quickly. To keep up with market demand, they are hiring engineers across the stack (frontend, backend, fullstack, data, machine learning) to join the team in Mountain View.
If Landbase piques your interest, click here to submit your information.
Early teams:
Pranav and Ron from Sapien are building an autonomous financial analyst powered by AI. They are currently looking for research engineers and product engineers based in SF. Apply here.
Ahmed was previously the Head of Supply and Growth at Scale AI. Heās now building Kiva AI, a next-generation data labeling provider, and is looking for an remote AI researcher/scientist. Apply here.
Shiv and Himanshu from Athina are building a platform that allows team members to build, test, and monitor AI features and products. They are backed by YC and were #1 on Product Hunt. They are looking for a founding engineer and founding developer advocate in SF. Apply here.
Viraj, Andrew, and Michael from Cornerstone AI are building an AI-powered assistant that can clean real world data and create propriety, high-value machine learning data sets. They are currently looking for a frontend engineer in SF or NY. Apply here.
Eilam and Eric formerly worked on Next Insuranceās works comp product. Now they are building Stream, an AI-powered platform to streamline workers comp processes. They are currently looking for an Senior Software Engineers, ML Engineer, and PM in SF. Apply here.
Matthieu and Ted previously led growth and finance at Jeeves. Now they are building Concourse, and AI analyst for corporate finance teams. They are looking for a founding backend engineer and founding AI/ML engineer in NY. Apply here.
Guillaume previously founded Triplebyte (āLinkedIn for Engineersā). Heās back again with Yuma, an AI-powered customer service agent for ecommerce brands. Heās looking for remote fullstack engineers. Apply here.
Growing startups:
Anis previously founded and sold Mixer, a talent network for the arts/music/fashion industry. Heās now teamed up with Matthias to build Attention, and AI-powered automation platform for go-to-market teams. They are looking for a founding CSM in NY. Apply here.
Paras and Ajay were researchers at Google Brain before launching Genmo, an open-source video generation model. They are currently looking for research engineers/scientists, fullstack engineers, front engineers, and product designers. Apply here.
Jacob and Sam from Macro are building an all-in-one, AI-powered productivity workspace. They are currently looking for a frontend and fullstack engineer in NY. Apply here.
Lachy Groom has assembled an all-star founding team for Physical Intelligence to bring general-purpose AI into the physical world. They are developing foundational models to help robots learn from and navigate the real world. They are hiring for research scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, and more. Apply here.
Gaurav, Ben, and Ali are protecting the world from malicious AI deepfakes. They are building Reality Defender, a multi-model and multimodal deepfake detection platform helps enterprises and governments detect AI-generated content at scale. They are hiring across several engineer, customer-facing, and GTM roles. Apply here.
Austin and Connor from Unify are building an an all-in-one solution for warm outbound. They are currently looking for engineers (FE, BE, and product), CSMs, and account managers. Apply here.
Dan and Nikhil at Nooks are building AI assistants to automate the business work in sales ā dialing, prospecting, and coaching. Companies such as Verkada, Greenhouse, and Drata are leveraging the platform. They are hiring 20+ roles across engineering, product, GTM, and recruiting. Apply here.
Startups to watch:
Stephen, Mike, and Andy at Cove are building a new type of AI-powered platform for collaboration and productivity. Cove isnāt hiring at the moment; however, given the founderās impressive background(s), Iād keep this startup on your radar ā either as a future company to join or a future product to use.