Coastal Recruiting - Hot Startups Hiring, Dec 12

David here, Co-Founder of Coastal Recruiting —a boutique group that helps top founders build their early engineering teams in NYC, SF, and remotely across the stack. Our startups are backed by the best (Lightspeed, Sequoia, Founders Fund, a16z), and we help them grow from Seed to IPO.

For those new, we help top techcnial talent in NYC and SF land jobs at at T1 Venture-backed startups - working with founders backed by a16z, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Lux Capital, and more..Each week we highlight select startups across AI/ML, health-tech, financial services (to name a few) building their eng teams across Seed, Series A and Series B.

Hiring Market Trends:

• Startup founders are rapidly increasing their hiring plans ahead of Q1 ✅

• Demand for talent is higher than ever before, moving us into a candidate-market (gives you more leverage when negotiating 😉) ✅

• AI/ML, crypto, fintech continue to dominate mindshare of top investors, founders and talent flooding into the space ✅

• Shift to an in-person work environment is growing, with more founders moving their HQ’s to SF and NYC ✅

Ready to explore the startup hiring environment for the new year? Grab time below. 

Not looking, but have a friend searching for their next early stage venture? Let me know!

Now - without further ado - check out the startups below who are firing on all cylinders and are assembling world class teams.

Hot Startups Hiring in San Francisco 🌉

Leader in AI Legal Tech - Series A (T1 VCs)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is pioneering the application of AI in the legal industry, crafting solutions that redefine how law firms operate.

• TLDR:

  • Their platform empowers plaintiff lawyers in case work, leveraging advanced AI models, thoughtful design, and precise engineering

  • Small, mighty team led by seasoned founders

  • About to announce massive Series A by T1 investors

• Open Roles:

  • Senior/Staff Fullstack / Product Engineer

  • Staff Platform / Infrastructure Engineer

Transforming Customer-Facing Software - Seed (Human Capital)

• Mission/Vision: This stealth startup creating an LLM-based platform to transform the customer-facing software industry (unify CRM, automate workflows, and eliminate data silos (taking on Salesforce).

• TLDR:

  • World-class founding team (ex-CRO of Brex, ex-Clari Founding Team, world-renowned CPO)

  • $15M Seed round by T1 investors

  • 75-100 day 1 customers in queue

• Open Roles:

  • Fullstack Engineers

  • Frontend Engineers

  • AI/ML Engineers

Multimodal AI - Series A (NEA, NVIDIA)

• Mission/Vision: This startup a leader in Multimodal AI that understands videos like humans.

• TLDR:

  • Their state-of-the-art video foundation models create rich video embeddings from video to power downstream tasks such as Search, Generate and Classify

  • Partners include PineCone, MongoDB, Milvus, and AWS (to name a few…)

  • Backed by T1 AI investors

• Open Roles:

  • Applied AI/ML Engineers (Senior, Staff)

  • Staff ML Data Engineers

  • Senior Cloud / Platform Infrastructure Lead

Hot Startups Hiring in New York City 🗽

Indexing All Blockchain Data - Series A (Theory Ventures, Kleiner Perkins) - Soho

• Mission/Vision: This startup’s mission is to provide the best blockchain data infrastructure for crypto analytics and engineering teams across institutions and funds in the industry.

• TLDR:

  • They ingest all of the worlds publicly available blockchain data (one public ledger). They ingest, synthesize, analyze and then sell the data.

  • Strong GTM across institutional investors (web3 & web2), accounting/finance: clients include Visa, Stripe, Bloomberg, Fidelity, Phantom, Magic Eden

  • Tripling ARR by EoY to $XXM ARR

• Open Roles:

  • Sr/Staff Engineers (Frontend, Backend, Fullstack)

Unifying Financial Data for the Enterprise - Series A (Founders Fund, Menlo)

• Mission/Vision: Building a unified data platform to make the dream of live, rich, comprehensive financial data a reality. Automating the manual and the tedious and giving super powers to the accounting & finance org.

• TLDR:

  • Raised $28M from Founders Fund, Menlo Ventures and 8VC

  • Hundreds of customers depend on them to close, monitor and report financials.

  • Clients range from series A startups to public companies, including Brex, OpenAI, Plaid, Braze, Wealthfront, and more

  • Experienced 4x YoY revenue growth since May ‘23; pacing for $XXM by EOY

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Engineers (Fullstack, Frontend, Backend)

Streamlining Patient Care - Series A (Accel, Bain Capital)

• Mission/Vision: This startup streamlines the initial steps of patient care, from confirming insurance coverage to verifying benefits and securing treatment approvals.

• TLDR:

  • Platform uses GenAI to parse clinical documentation and automatically out insurance forms for prior auth

  • Strong commercial momentum; 40% MoM growth + nation-wide healthcare customers

  • Founders are ex-Ramp, raised $27M from T1 investors

• Open Roles😀 

  • Junior Engineers (Fullstack, Frontend)

Remote-First Opportunities 🌎

Leading L1 Blockchain - B (a16z Crypto, Jump Crypto, Lightspeed)

• Mission/Vision: Leading L1 blockchain creating infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

• TLDR:

  • Founding-team highly regarded in the web3 space as true thought leaders, coming from Meta

  • Globally remote company and work culture

  • T1 investors (a16z, Paradigm, Thrive Capital, Ribbit Capital, Coatue)

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Frontend Engineer

  • Staff Frontend Engineer

  • Senior Data Platform Engineer (Blockchain Data)

360 Cyber Command - Series A (Ballistic Ventures)

• Mission/Vision: This startup is pioneering advanced AI to reinvent security operation.

• TLDR:

  • Using the first generative AI for cybersecurity, they seamlessly connects to an organization's existing security stack, maximizing performance and minimizing cost

  • Founders spent 10+ yers decade building detection and prevention products @ iconic cybersecurity companies – Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, and Cylance

  • $20M Raised from T1 cybersecurity investors

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Backend Engineers

Candidate Testimonial

Asher made my job search an absolute breeze! I had a fairly specific type of company I was looking for, and he was able to filter all opportunities to highlight the exact ones he knew would be a great fit. When it came time to interview with each company, it often felt like I had skipped a round - I usually wouldn’t even need to walk through my background because Asher had already convinced them that I would be a great hire. He was a super proactive communicator and coordinator, constantly reaching out to get my thoughts as well as doing everything he could to make sure all of my processes finished on my desired timeline. As proof of his efficiency - my job search lasted just 2 weeks from me accepting an intro call with Asher to me accepting a job offer. During that time I interviewed with 7 companies (3 through Asher) and gained absolute confidence that I had found my dream role, which turned out to be at the very first company he initially suggested. Highly recommend working with Asher!

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