Coastal Recruiting - Hot Startups Hiring, Oct 6

David here, Co-Founder of Coastal Recruiting — a small firm out of Venice, CA that helps build early engineering teams in NYC and SF across the stack. Our select partners (e.g. beehiiv and Tennr) are backed by the best (e.g. Lightspeed, Sequoia, a16z, NEA) and are firing on all cylinders.

How we work with our talent? We’re hyper-intentional about the startups we work with, and opportunities we bring to our candidates. We place a large emphasis on developing deep talent networks, and truly helping our candidates find the best job for them based on their goals, motivations, and risk appetite.

Check out what a Staff-Level tech lead recently said about our while helping him land his next role in NYC:

‘I’ve never had better ‘matches’ with respect to company needs vs what I offer… never had anyone better’

Now - without further ado - check out the 4 Seed + Series A startups with badass founders — all building world-class engineering teams in NYC + SF.

Not looking, but have a friend searching for their next early stage venture? Let me know (and ask about our referral program)!

Hot Startups Hiring in San Francisco 🌉

Advancing Recruiting w/AI - Series A (Benchmark) - Financial District

• Mission/Vision: Transforming the recruitment landscape with advanced AI technology, making the hiring process more efficient, accurate, and scalable. Customers like OpenAI (hiring 100’s of roles), $32M Series A led by Benchmark, $6MM ARR.

• TLDR:

  • Reached $1MM ARR fully bootstrapped, on target to $6MM ARR; 50% MoM Growth

  • Bill Gurley (legendary investor) came out of retirement to lead Series A; Working with Top AI Labs

  • 7 person eng team, brillant founders (all Thiel fellows)

• Open Roles:

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

Innovating Developer Documentation - Series A (a16z) - Mission

• Mission/Vision: This startup is building the modern standard for public facing documentation.

• TLDR:

  • #1 YC product used by YC companies for past 4 years

  • Massive enterprise customers like Zapier, Anthropic, Fidelity and Pinecone.

  • Pacing for $XXM ARR by EOY

• Open Roles:

  • Sr/Staff Engineers (Fullstack, Frontend)

Hot Startups Hiring in New York City 🗽

Drug Intelligence Platform for Pharma - Seed (Lux Capital) - Flatiron

• Mission/Vision: This stealth startup is build tools that help every drug developer bring cures to more patients, faster.

• TLDR:

  • Core product helps organize information (search) and move toward automating downstream workflows across R&D, clinical, and commercial functions.

  • Founder/CEO previously co-founded an AI drug discovery startup and created the largest biotech accelerator in the world

  • Strong customer momentum with several large pharma companies

• Open Roles:

  • Founding Engineer (Fullstack, Backend, Frontend)

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)

Candidate Testimonial:

I can confidently say Coastal changed my life! Its rare in life to find exactly what you want, exactly when you want it, but with their help I was able to do just that after transitioning out of a failed startup.

I've worked with many recruiters in tech, and without a doubt David has been the best. Within a single phone call he had a perfect read on what was important to me and the kind of role I was looking for. Moreover, his relationship with the companies he represents is second to none.

He is professional, intimately knowledgeable about the roles, coaches you each step of the way during the interview process, and is fun to work with. He also knew how to strike the perfect balance of representing mine, and the hiring team's, best interest which worked out well for everyone.

I can't recommend Coastal enough to anyone looking for for startup software engineering roles!

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