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Co-founders and people to jam with:

Nisha is an ex-founder and AI product leader who built and shipped AI systems at Atlassian, filed 6 patents, and drove $60M+ in cost savings. Exploring AI-native services in healthcare admin, in the vein of YC’s Summer 2026 RFS. Looking to jam with operators who have lived the pain inside health systems, payers, or revenue cycle. Reach out: nriyer25@gmail.com.

Kunal was really early at Venmo and also founded and sold a vertical SaaS/embedded finance company to Rocket Group. He wants to build a fund that acquires and operates vertical SaaS companies. Reach out: telosfund1@gmail.com.

Daniel previously was the CTO and co-founded and sold several startups (one that raised $13m+, another that grew to 65 employees with 300+ customers). He’s looking to build something new and is looking for a co-founder. Reach out: warner.d@gmail.com.

Check out our new list of 43 people actively looking for a co-founder.

Hiring? Email us (hi@nextplay.so), we’d love to help you find the right people and get exposure to the community.

Early teams:

Justin from Signalcore is hiring an AI engineer. They are building a performance management layer for enterprises. Apply here. (SF, Remote)

Sinclair from Mural is hiring a growth and marketing person, an account executive, and a staff software engineer. They are building account and payments primitives to help every company become a fintech company. Apply here. (NYC, Denver)

Cyril from CTGT is hiring staff engineers and ML engineers. They are building a deterministic governance layer that enables global institutions to deploy AI. Apply here. (SF)

Pierre from Kinro is hiring GTM people. They already passed $1m ARR and want to get to $100m with a team of less than 20 people. They are building AI sales agents for financial services. Apply here. (SF)

Quinn from Revin is hiring engineers and account executives. Scaling their AI agent platform for home service businesses. Raised $11M. Apply here. (NYC)

Joel from Atomus is hiring software engineers and cybersecurity analysts. They are building cyber-infrastructure for aerospace and defense. Apply here. (SF)

Chris from Hanover Park is hiring a founding deployment strategist. They are building a modern fund admin platform that’s already surpassed $15 billion in assets under administration. Apply here. (NYC)

Jason from Reusables.com is hiring their second account executive. They are building one of the fastest-growing sustainability tech platforms. Apply here. (Remote)

Conor from Caplight is hiring salespeople. Their first sales hire beat Q1 at 200%+ quota. They are building a private markets data platform. Apply here. (SF)

Nik from This Week in Fintech is hiring a founding account executive. They are building a newsletter that covers the fintech industry, that was acquired by Plaid earlier this year. Apply here. (SF, NYC)

Julia from Playkit is hiring a “UGC engineer” to help content go viral. They are building a growth agency that’s driven over 11 million app store downloads. Apply here. (Remote)

Jessica from Marklo is hiring a founding marketing lead. They are building an AI-powered marketing planning platform for Shopify brands. Apply here. (SF)

Daniel from fonio.ai is hiring a head of marketing to scale a B2B SaaS like a D2C brand. They are building an AI phone assistant platform, and are growing 30-40% MoM, scaling marketing budget from €400k to €2M/month by December. Reach out: michael@letsbuild.ventures. (Vienna, Munich, London)

Francesco from Uniti AI is hiring a growth marketing manager. They are building AI agents for the real estate industry. Apply here. (NYC)

Reminder you cansign up for the free next play platform (<1 minute) to be able to filter/search for specific job opportunities at hot startups.

Scaling startups:

Rohan from OpenAI is hiring deployed product managers on their new Codex team. Apply here. (SF)

Tom from Adaptive ML is hiring a partnerships lead, founding rev ops manager, BDR manager, and many more roles. They are building the post training platform for specialized enterprise agents. Apply here. (NYC, Boston, Paris)

Garret from Handshake is hiring an entrepreneur to work in their CEO’s office. They are building. They are building an AI data business that’s grown from $0 to $1b revenue run rate. Apply here. (SF)

Ben from Omnea is hiring across every department: GTM, customer, partnerships, engineers, and more. Omnea raised $75m from Accel, Insight and Khosla to redesign enterprise operations and procurement and 10x’d revenue over 18 months. Apply here. (NYC, London, Remote)

Jake from Siro is hiring for roles in every department: product, sales, marketing, and more. They are building an ai-powered platform to enable sales reps to work more efficiently, and they’ve raised $75m. Apply here. (NYC)

Andrei from Console is hiring FDEs, GTM people, and a product lead. They are building AI agents for IT. Apply here. (SF)

Josh from Corgi is hiring 7 salespeople who want to grow fast. They are building a modern business insurance offering, and just reached unicorn status. Apply here. (Austin)

Alli from Vercel is hiring ex-VCs to work on their startup program. They are building developer tools to build a more personalized web. Apply here. (SF)

Brandon from Meow is hiring GTM people. They are building a business banking and payments platform that recently reached $2 billion in annualized stablecoin volume. Apply here. (Remote, NYC)

Samar from Talos is hiring a GTM engineer and a demand generation lead. They are building a platform that enables institutions to trade and manage digital assets. Apply here. (NYC)

Joshua from Cursor is hiring a creator marketing lead. Their mission is to automate coding. Apply here. (SF, NYC)

Marina from Scale is hiring a chief of staff. Their AI data platform was acquired by Meta for $25 billion+. Apply here. (NYC)

Jeff from Stripe is hiring for every department, and you don’t need a background in fintech. Apply here. (SF, NYC, London)

Here’s a list we recently made of 26 new unicorn companies hiring.

Investing and other:

Kevin from Interplay Ventures is hiring an investment associate to focus on AI. Apply here.

General Atlantic is hiring an investment associate to focus on life sciences. Apply here. (NYC)

Resources and tools:

Looking to get matched with a startup that’s hiring? We have an experimental program we call Next Play Insider, where you fill out a short form and we contact you proactively with personalized, under-the-radar opportunities. It’s all done by hand so we’re a bit time limited but we’re especially looking for chief of staff/ops type people right now.

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