Federal proposal creation, content monetization, and healthcare admin
early teams & breakout startups disrupting the world with AI
🛠️ Welcome to The Workshop!
Every week, I spend a few hours researching what new and fast-growing startups are disrupting the world with AI. The Workshop is where I bring that research to you.
My goal is to help you discovery exciting new AI products — and opportunities. When analyzing startups, I’m looking for 3 distinct characteristics:
Exceptional founding teams
Disrupting the world with AI: there are many other non-AI focused startups out there. Every now-and-again I’ll flag them. Right now, my focus is primarily AI.
Actively hiring: hiring (often) = growth. Plus it’s more valuable to you to know who is hiring.
Together, we can push the bounds of what’s possible with AI.
Early teams:
Robert and Nebyou at Lume AI are building a platform that allows developers to easily map, clean, and validate data in an workflow. They are a team of 5 in NY that recently raised $4M in funding, and are now looking for founding fullstack and backend engineer in NY. Apply here.
Tomas and Vasek at e2b.dev are building an open-source runtime for executing AI-generated code in secure cloud sandboxes (made for agentic & AI use cases). They are looking for a Distributed Systems Engineer and AI Engineer in SF. Apply here.
Mahmoud and Hammad from PlayAI are building text-to-speech models to power speech-based AI applications. They recently raised a $21M seed round are currently hiring for fullstack engineers, machine learning engineers/reseachers, and growth/marketing roles in Palo Alto. Apply here.
Mac was previously an EM/TL at Anduril. He raised ~$5M for Vultron, a platform that uses AI for Federal Proposal creation. He’s looking for engineers and AEs in San Francisco. Apply here.
Pierre previously built Noteable, which was acquired by Confluent. He’s teamed up with Aaron and Marcel to build Pixeltable, an open-source data infrastructure for AI. They are looking for strong engineers in SF to join them. Apply here.
Filip and Robert at Wordware are building an web-hosted IDE where non-technical domain experts team up with AI engineers to create task-specific AI agents. They recently raised $30M dollars and are hiring across engineer, CoS, GTM, and customer-facing roles. Apply here.
David (former CTO at Stripe) and Ficus (led the development of Android v1) are building /dev/agents, a new OS for AI agents. They are looking for ambitious, experienced engineers in SF to join the team. Apply here.
Alex previously led Zapier’s ecosystem efforts. He’s teamed up with Bobby to build Tako, a way to turn the world’s authoritative data into shareable graphics. They are currently looking for engineers (FE and BE) and a founding designer in San Francisco. Apply here.
Growing startups:
Henry and Zach at Brellium are building an AI-Powered Clinical Compliance Platform for healthcare billing. They recently closed their series A funding round and are hiring engineers, product managers, and AEs in NY. Apply here.
Toshit and Olivia at Tollbit are building a platform that allows publishers to easily monetize their content in an generative AI world. They are looking for a remote staff engineer (FS) and technical PM. Apply here.
Michael, Renaud, and Scott at Distributional are building a platform to help enterprises test the reliability and accuracy of their AI applications. The are looking for remote, senior engineers — fullstack and frontend. Apply here.
Reiner was the hardware architect for two generations of ML chips at Google. He’s teamed up with Mike to start MatX, where they are building high throughput chips for LLMs. They are looking looking for low-level software engineers, hardware engineers, and ML engineer. Apply here.
Parker and Andrew at Numeric are using AI to help accounting teams organize and automate their close management. They are currently working with a number of notable organizations and are now hiring for engineers, designers, AEs, and solutions engineers in SF. Apply here.
Ali and Deepak previously led engineering and operations at Latch. They teamed up to start Tabs, an AI-powered revenue automation platform for B2B teams. They recently closed a $25M series A and are hiring for customer success, engineering, implementation, and GTM roles in NY. Apply here.
Nikhil and Jordan at Vapi are building a voice AI platform for developers. They are looking for engineers (FE, BE, infra, growth), designers, and AEs in SF. Apply here.
Tim is a serial entrepreneur who is now building Agtonomy, an AI automation platform for farming. He’s hiring engineers across the stack, from software to embedded to hardware. Apply here.
Phillip is the former founder of SignalFX (an analytics platform that was acquired by Splunk). He recently raised a $10M series A for his newest startup Trustero where he is building AI for security and compliance teams. He’s looking for AEs and Senior ML engineers in Palo Alto. Apply here.
Sub and Rish at Spot AI are building video AI for the real-world. Their AI system can turn any real-world camera into an intelligent monitoring system. They recently raised a $31M series B and are hiring across engineer, GTM, and product. Apply here.
Jesse and Ashwin at Decagon are building enterprise-grade, AI customer support agents. They are hiring across GTM, engineering, and business operation roles in SF. Apply here.
Trey at Tennr is building a proprietary vision-language model and automation platform to streamline healthcare administrative tasks. He recently closed a $37M series B funding round and is now hiring across business operations, engineering, product, and GTM. Apply here.
Quick ask!
The early feedback about The Workshop has been great. Whether someone is actively exploring a new role or not, every is curious to know who is building what in AI.
I need your help to get the word out about The Workshop. If anyone in your network is exploring their next role or is interested in AI, do me a favor and share The Workshop with them 👇