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1 | Tech companies who are specifically looking to hire former founders for various roles. Hope this list is helpful! DM me if your company is missing - @benln on X Also plugging my newsletter for folks looking for their next thing, I share under-the-radar opps once a week: nextplayso.substack.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Company name | Company description | Industry | Types of roles | Location | Stage | Career page | Notes | |||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 11x | AI digital workers for GTM | AI, sales | Growth, ops | SF/london | Mid | https://www.11x.ai/about-us | ping https://x.com/cometremeau / just raised $50m Series B / leadership is mostly former founders | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 222.place | Accelerating serendipitous, chance encounters | Social network | Eng | NY | Early | https://serendipityproject.notion.site/accelerating-chance-social-encounters-66d597f821c8425facd11be5815a64d7?pvs=4 | Backed by YC, General Catalyst | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Actively AI | GTM engine that analyzes CRM data to prioritize sales prospects and write personalized outreach | AI, sales | Product eng & forward deployed engineers | NYC | Early | https://www.actively.ai/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Alembic | AI marketing intelligence platform for enterprise CMOs | AI, marketing | AI, tech, post-sales, customer success | SF | Early | https://getalembic.com/careers | ping https://x.com/loganpugh ; Raised $14m Series A, leadership is mostly prior founders, several with successful exits | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Anagram | Digital assets holding company building and incubating crypto projects | crypto | Engineering and product design | Remote | Early | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Anagram/f30e91dc-d168-4b35-a11c-5ac80be853b5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Auquan | Automating deep investment research to streamline deal sourcing, risk intelligence | fintech | Sales, product, tech | NY / london | Early | https://www.auquan.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Autograph | Headcount and resource allocation management for fast-changing teams | HR infra | Founding Principal Engineer | Remote / NYC / SF / Miami | Early | https://withautograph.com/journeys | Second time founder | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Autotab | Desktop app that trains AI to automate repetitive and complex tasks | AI | Opportunistic | NY | Early | https://www.autotab.com/ | second time founders backed by open ai, ping https://x.com/alexirobbins | |||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Averi | AI Marketing Manager to craft marketing strategy, create content, and find marketing talent | AI, marketing | Tech leads both in platform and AI | NYC | Early | https://www.averi.ai/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | BackOps | AI-powered supply chain automation for logistics teams | AI | Tech leadership | SF | Early | backops.ai | backed by Google’s gradient ventures | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Betterleap | Professional network for healthcare | Health tech | Eng | SF | Early | https://betterleap.com/ | $13m in funding | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Blumen | AI for energy and infrastructure development | AI, energy | Engineering, Design | SF | Early | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/blumen | backed by Haystack and Caffeinated, email hannes@blumensystems.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Boardy | AI networking startup | AI | Early | boardy.ai | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | BRM | AI-powered vendor management and procurement platform to tackle vendor negotiations and streamlines compliance | AI | Growth, eng | SF | Early | https://www.brm.ai/careers#open-roles | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Casium | Expedited business immigration powered by AI + human expert collaboration | B2B, AI, Legal tech | Growth, operations, eng | Seattle, SF | Early | casium.com | Backed by Allen Institute of AI Incubator https://ai2incubator.com, DM Priyanka Kulkarni ( @priyankaonair) / X | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Center | Blockchain indexing solution | Crypto, dev tooling | Business ops, CTO, eng | Palo Alto / SF / Remote | Early | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/center | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Clearest Health | AI-first care navigation, dynamic copay plans, and insightful plan analytics | AI | Eng, Head of Marketing, Head of Design | NYC | Early | https://www.clearesthealth.com/about | YC backed | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Coco | Sustainable food delivery via robotics | Robotics, AI | Technical | LA | Mid | https://www.cocodelivery.com/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | ConvoSearch | AI search within each store | AI, e-commerce | Growth (e-commerce experience preferred), founding eng (experience with recommendation systems preferred) | SF | Early | |||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Create | Text to code - turn words into sites, components, and tools | AI | Founding eng (full stack) or first product marketing hire (generalist) | SF | Early | https://createxyz.notion.site/Join-Create-c8c8701371af4ef3acaad8546d8d9478 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Cursor | AI code editor | AI | Technical | SF | Early | https://anysphere.inc/ | ping https://x.com/itsjordantop | |||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Ego | AI-native simulation engine and platform to create and share 3D animated characters, worlds, games and scripted interactions | AI | Eng | SF | Early | https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KeD-ego-an-ai-native-3d-simulation-engine-getting-us-closer-to-the-matrix-one-pixel-at-a-time | YC backed | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Employer | Global payroll processing and hiring | B2B | Eng, product, biz ops, sales, marketing | Remote | late | http://Employer.com | Just acquired Bench.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Fabfitfun | Premier shopping club, helping consumers discover high quality lifestyle products at competitive prices | Consumer, E-commerce | Product | LA | Mid | https://boards.greenhouse.io/fabfitfun | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Fleetworks | Automating the 2B phone calls and emails for the freight brokerage industry | AI, logistics | Eng | SF | Early | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/fleetworks/jobs/LpoDNlO-full-stack-software-engineer | YC backed | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Flora | Connect models together to build creative workflows and interfaces | AI | Founding Design Engineers, Product Engineers, Head of Growth | NYC | Early | https://app.dover.com/jobs/flora | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Gamma | AI-powered designer for presentations, documents, and websites | AI | Eng | SF | Early | careers.gamma.app | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Glider | Crypto trading on autopilot | Crypto | Eng | NY/Remote | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Anagram/f30e91dc-d168-4b35-a11c-5ac80be853b5 https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Anagram/733f3b84-2e43-487b-af53-9484145d97b5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Gradient AI | The AI operating system for financial services | AI, fintech | Deployment Strategists (similar flavor to Palantir) Full Stack Eng with AI bent | SF/NY | Early | https://www.gradient.ai/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Graphite | AI-powered pull request toolchain | Dev tooling | Eng, sales, product, design | NYC | Early | https://graphite.dev/careers#positions | $20m Series A led by a16z | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Gravity Climate | Carbon management, purpose-built for industrial businesses and their supply chain partners. | Climate tech | Sales, eng, climate | Remote/SF | Mid | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/GravityClimate | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | GrowthX | End-to-end growth engines with expert-guided AI workflows (content to distribution to conversion) | AI, marketing, sales | Eng + product minded former founders | Remote | Early | GrowthX.ai | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Haize Labs | Testing AI systems to preemptively discover and eliminate any failure mode | AI, devtools | Generalists, Eng | NYC | Early | https://haizelabs.com/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Hamming | Automated AI voice agent testing | AI agents | Eng | Bay Area | Early | https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hamming-ai/jobs/ | YC backed | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Heygen | AI video generator to create and translate videos | AI | Eng | SF/LA | Mid | heygen.com | $60m Series A | |||||||||||||||||||||
38 | HoneyHive | Debug and improve AI agents with end-to-end testing and observability | AI | Eng | SF/NY | Early | https://careers.honeyhive.ai/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Infinite | Platform to enable global payments and compliance | Fintech | Early | https://infinite.dev/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Infinitus | Healthcare AI agents to negotiate with insurance, get prescription follow-ups | AI agents | Eng, product, GM | SF | Mid | https://www.infinitus.ai/careers/#open-roles | Raised $51m Series C | |||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Innerwell | Personalized psychiatry or therapy program | Healthtech | Ops / product | remote | mid | https://helloinnerwell.com/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Integral Neuro | Devices to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders | Hardtech, healthtech | Eng | SF | Early | https://integralneuro.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Jigsaw | A suite of small models to automate complex tasks in every tech stack with specialized finetuning | AI | Founding eng and AI researcher | US-based remote | Early | https://yoeven.notion.site/Careers-at-JigsawStack-17595f7334d3809b8007c63dbc1ee2ce | ||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Joyful Health | AI powered financial operating system for healthcare practices | healthcare / fintech | founding roles in eng (full-stack, data science, data eng, ML), ops, and design | NYC | Early | https://bit.ly/4hraHrd | just raised a round. Feel free to email CEO (eliana@joyfulhealth.io) if interested | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | kay.ai | AI co-workers eliminating repetitive data entry in insurance operations. | insurance, ai | growth, sales, engineering | NYC | Early | https://app.dover.com/jobs/kaydotai | ping the founders - achyut@kay.ai/vishal@kay.ai | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Knock | Notifications infrastructure for developers | Infra, dev tooling | Eng, ops | NY/remote | Early | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/knock | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Knot | Merchant connectivity platform with card-on-file switching for hundreds of online merchant accounts | Fintech, API | PM and tech lead manager | NY | Early | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/knot | $10m Series A | |||||||||||||||||||||
48 | koodos | Building & enabling agentic cultural products. Creators of http://getaShelf.com | AI, consumer, data infra | Engineering, Product & Design | NYC | Early | https://koodos.notion.site/Join-the-koodos-labs-team-f99d4eaab4a440ffb773e9535c8c1ab4 | backed by first round capital, co-founder of Pinterest on the Board | |||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Lindy | AI agents in minutes to automate workflows | AI agents | Product designer | SF | Early | https://www.lindy.ai/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Loman | 24/7 AI Phone Agent for Restaurants | AI agents | Founding eng, general application | Austin preferred / remote ok | https://www.loman.ai/careers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Lovable | Idea to app in seconds | AI | Eng, marketing, creative lead, community | Stockholm/london | Early | https://lovable.dev/ | 90% former founders | |||||||||||||||||||||
52 | MadMen AI | AI agents for Advertising | AI, AdTech | Chief Applied AI Scientist, Eng | Bay Area | Early | https://usemadmen.ai/careers | ex-Meta & Twitter founders. Backed by Wing & SPC. Message Aman on WhatsApp | |||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Meow | Banking for businesses | Fintech | Sales, growth, software eng | Remote | Early | https://www.meow.com/ | ping https://x.com/brandon directly | |||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Merge | Platform to add entire categories of integrations into your product | Dev tooling | Eng, sales | SF | mid | https://www.merge.dev/careers | 5 days a week in the office | |||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Meter | Internet infrastructure | enterprise | Eng | SF | Mid | https://www.meter.com/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Microsoft | Everything | Global | Public | https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/home.html | ping https://x.com/bwinterrose | |||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Mixpeek | Multimodal understanding infra for developers to analyze, search, and understand multimodal content with one line of code. | Devtools | Eng | Remote | Early | https://mixpeek.com/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | New Lantern | AI Radiology | Healthtech, AI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | NimbleRX | Pharmacy and prescription management | Healthtech | Product leadership roles for some new 0-1 product/biz areas | Bay Area | Late | https://www.nimblerx.com/careers | ping https://x.com/kia_amiri | |||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Notion | Connected workspace | AI, enterprise | Everything | NYC/SF | Late | https://www.notion.com/careers | 35 former founders working at NotionHQ | |||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Omnea | AI procurement automation | AI, enterprise | Everything | London, NY, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam | Mid | https://www.omnea.co/careers | $20m Series A | |||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Ontik | Financial operations platform for B2B wholesalers to collect and manage payments | Fintech | Design, product, eng | London | Early | https://ontiktech.notion.site/Ontik-Careers-1633c0f11229808ea866e82455fec2c6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Opal | Back-office operations for agencies | Sales and engineering | Canada / US | Early | https://www.getopal.co/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | OpenAI | ChatGPT | AI | AI solutions architect who can work with strategic startups | SF | Late | https://openai.com/careers/solutions-architect-startups/ | ping https://x.com/shyamalanadkat | |||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Palantir | Software platforms for the intelligence community | Defense, data | Eng | Global | Public | https://www.palantir.com/careers/ | ping https://x.com/waldo47 | |||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Paramark | Marketing measurement, experimentation, forecasting | Analytics, martech | Early | paramark.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Partly | On a mission is to connect the world's parts | AI, Automotive | Eng, Technical, Sales | SF / NZ (can provide visa for family) / UK / EU | Early/Mid | https://www.partly.com/careers/careers-at-partly | Backed by Blackbird, Dylan Feld (Figma CEO), Akshay Kothari (Notion Co-founder), Pete Beck (Rocket Lab CEO) | |||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Phrasing | Turns binge-worthy activities into language-learning opportunities | CTO / co-founding engineer | Early | https://phrasing.app/dream-team-old | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Pi | Developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power robots and physical devices | AI, ML | Ops | SF | Mid | https://www.physicalintelligence.company/join-us | Backed by Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, OpenAI, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive Capital | |||||||||||||||||||||
70 | ping https://x.com/fut_ure | AI agents for accountants | AI, accounting | Many roles: tech, sales, accounting | NY | Mid | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/basis-ai | $34m series A | |||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Podero | Cloud based renewable energy management solution | Climate tech, cloud | Product marketing, eng, sales | Remote / Vienna | Early | https://join.com/companies/podero | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Praan | Advanced air purification system | Hardtech | https://www.praan.io/careers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Prophecy | Build and deploy data pipelines for analytics | Devtools | PM role | Bay Area | Early | https://www.prophecy.io/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Rantir | Logic builder and no-code AI Agent software | AI | Early | https://www.rantir.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Retool | Build internal apps with minimal code | Devtools | Late | retool.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Ribbon | Screen candidates with AI interviews or handpick from pre-screened talent | AI | technical | Toronto | Early | https://www.ribbon.ai/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Roam | Platform for purchasing homes for a low-rate mortgage | Fintech | People that spike in product positioning and systems thinking | NYC | Early | https://withroam.notion.site/We-re-making-homeownership-2x-more-affordable-a20aece66d4a4f49bb0734e6e1a58bd9 | 50% of the team at Roam has started a company before | |||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Roboflow | Workflow builder and deployment infrastructure to create datasets, train models, and deploy to production | Infra, data | Former founder role | SF/NY/remote US | Mid | https://app.dover.com/apply/Roboflow/26d4ab31-e73d-47c8-9c25-ead170b5ac12/?rs=76643084 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Scale | Accelerate the development of AI with data | AI | Eng, PM, Design, AI/ML, Ops, Sales | SF/New York | Late | https://scale.com/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Sentien | Headset device | Hardtech | Early | sentienhq.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Slash | Corporate banking | Fintech | Eng, Product, Data, Ops/Compliance | SF | Early | https://jobs.joinslash.com/ | ping https://x.com/kevinbai0 | |||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Slingshot | Mental health AI research training the first foundation model for psychology | AI | Eng | NYC | Early | jobs.ashbyhq.com/slingshotai | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Sonia Health | Therapy-like AI chatbot based on the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) | AI | Eng, designers product/ux, clinical psychologists | NY | Early | https://www.soniahealth.com/ | YC backed | |||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Stealth | Eng, ops and GTM | NYC | Early | ping https://x.com/cuffejamie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Stealth | Founding engineer, founding design engineer | LA | Early | stealth | ping https://x.com/jb_bakst | |||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Stealth | AI, engineering, product | ping https://x.com/maxekane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | stealth | AI apps and agents for large enterprise | AI | full stack Eng, full-stack gtm | SF | Early | founded by http://x.com/brendanfalk, previously founder of fig (acquired by AWS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Stripe | Payments company | Everything | Global | Late | https://stripe.com/jobs/search | ping https://twitter.com/jeff_weinstein | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Structify | Convert unstructured web content and documents into personalized enterprise databases | Data | Opportunistic | NY | Early | https://chipped-pint-1ae.notion.site/Structify-1432bb9b944880c195c4ec02f8dbdd11?pvs=73 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Sudowrite | AI for authors of fiction | AI | AI Engineer, Growth | remote | Early | https://sudowrite.notion.site/We-re-hiring-engineers-to-make-writing-magical-389c57f5ae3a421d8f8c0b48c8407e88 | Company in 3rd year of profitability, does a profit share with employees. Both founders have successful prior exits. | |||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Suno | Fun with Music + AI | AI, entertainment, music | Eng, Data, and GTM | Boston / NYC / LA | Early | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/suno | ping https://x.com/fut_ure | |||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Sunset | Helping tech companies shut down | Company infra | Customer success, eng, sales | NY | Early | https://www.sunsethq.com/careers | ||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Superpower | Digital clinic for members focused on whole-body testing and preventative medicine | Healthtech | Technical | SF | Early | https://superpowerhealth.notion.site/Build-Superpower-With-Us-484d862f400a4bcd95c5e15c406e720f | ||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Taxwire | Automated global sales tax compliance | B2B, fintech | Eng, tax | NYC/remote | Early | http://taxwire.notion.site/ | ping https://x.com/andrew__rea | |||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Textla | SMS marketing outreach tooling | Marketing, sales | Product, eng | US remote | Early | https://www.textla.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | TimeOS | AI-based time management tools | AI, productivity | Growth | https://www.timeos.ai/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Verse | Make visual blogs, mini-sites, collages, mixed media art | Consumer | Engineering and product design | NY | Early | https://madeonverse.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Vizcom | Transform sketches into renders and 3D models in seconds | AI | Full stack web , iOS devs, back end infra, gtm marketing, designers | SF/remote | Early | https://www.vizcom.ai/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Wayfaster | Interview your candidate pipeline using AI screening calls | AI, recruiting | Business generalist | Early | wayfaster.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Windmill | Windmill gives managers AI superpowers, reimagining how leaders run their teams | AI | Technical | NYC | Early | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/windmill | ||||||||||||||||||||||