Coastal Recruiting - Hot Startups Hiring, Sept 6

Happy Friday! 

David here 👋🏼, Co-Founder of Coastal Recruiting - a boutique startup recruitment agency representing the top technical and product talent in San Francisco and New York City.

Why You?

First off, congrats - if you haven’t heard it yet this week - you’re in the top 1% of engineers. No doubt the result of a lot of smart decisions and hard work on your part. 

Our founders consistently say they’re looking for backgrounds just like yours. I’m in your inbox this Friday bringing you unique early-stage engineering opportunities before these startups come out of stealth. 

Why Us?

We operate like sports agents. You’re the talent. We are the conduit to world-class opportunities. On average, the engineers we represent interview with 3-5 startups, helping manage their process from intro to negotiation. Check out the testimonial from someone who we helped get a Founding Engineer role at Hadrius at the bottom of this email👇

Our Philosophy

From innovative AI/ML startups to health-tech and creator-economy disruptors, Coastal helps the top 1% of founders build their core engineers teams. We only partner with startups we’d want to work with ourselves, that are backed by T1 investors, and that have strong commercial momentum. We have strategic partnerships with VC-firms like Lightspeed and work with companies like beehiiv and Tennr - helping build the engineering teams, from Founding Engineer to Series C+. 

Today marks the launch of our ‘Hot Startups Hiring’ newsletter - bringing you the top startups in NYC and SF, hiring across the stack.

Want to schedule a consultation with our team? Grab time below or respond directly to this email.

Now - without further ado - check out the 4 startups below who are close to coming out of stealth with funding, have world-class founders, and offer above-market compensation packages.

AI-Based Recruitment 💼 - Series A (Benchmark, General Catalyst) - San Francisco

1. Mission/Vision: Transforming the recruitment landscape with advanced AI technology, making the hiring process more efficient, accurate, and scalable.

2. TLDR: 

   • $32M Series A led by Benchmark (Bill Gurley came out of retirement to lead)

   • Customers include OpenAI, Deepmind, and Scale AI (all have hired 100’s of roles via their platform)

   • Bootstrapped to $1MM ARR; currently pacing for $10M ARR by EOY

   • Brilliant founders (all Thiel Fellows)

   • 13 Person team in SF

3. Open Roles:

   • Software Engineers (BE, FE, Full Stack)

   • Applied AI/ML Engineers 

Disrupting Clinical Drug Development 💊 - Seed (Maverick, SignalFire, UnitedHealthCare) - San Francisco 

1. Mission/Vision: Building ​​“last mile” delivery infrastructure to accelerate the future of cutting-edge drugs. Starting with an “AI knowledge worker” for clinics administering drugs for cell/gene therapies and biologics for Alzheimer’s, cancer, schizophrenia, genetic disorders, amongst many others

2. TLDR:

   • $12.5M Seed from iconic Healthcare investors (Maverick, SignalFire, UnitedHealthcare) - early in Rho, Hims, Devoted Health, etc

   • Have already sold $2M in customer contacts, working with some of the largest healthcare providers in the country

   • Veteran founders with previous exits under their belt 

   • 4 Person team in SF

3. Open Roles:

   • Founding Software Engineer 

   • Founding Product Designer 

GenAI for Financial Institutions 🏦 - Series A (Khosla) - New York City

1. Mission/Vision: Building Generative AI for Financial Institutions, this company is the secure, enterprise AI platform purpose-built for elite financial institutions, saving time, unlocking insights, and automating workflows.

2. TLDR:

   • $25M Series A - led by Vinod Khosla at Khosla Ventures

   • Exceptional GTM Traction: Customers include top investment banks, Hedge Funds, and PE funds (0 - $1MM ARR in 6 months)

   • Founding team has deep experience on Wall Street

   • 12 person engineering team 

3. Open Roles:

   • Software Engineers (BE, FE, Full Stack)

   • AI/ML Engineers

   • Cloud Infrastructure Lead 

   • Product Designer 

Transforming DTC Car Purchasing 🚗 - Seed (YC, Tesla) - New York City

1. Mission/Vision: This team is transforming the way vehicles are bought and sold. As the ‘Stripe Checkout’ for new vehicle sales, their licensed e-commerce platform enables manufacturers (of cars, motorcycles, RVs, golf carts, you name it) to sell vehicles compliantly from their own website - offering a ‘Tesla-like’ DTC experience

2. TLDR: 

   • $2M Seed (YC, Tesla) - with looming Series A 

   • Working with 10+ manufacturers, sold 1K+ vehicles to-dates, cash flow positive, $2MM ARR

   • 7-person team (4 engineers)

3. Open Roles:

   • Founding Engineer 

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Coastal Candidate Testimonial 

Abby was an instrumental aid in my search for a new role. She listened to what I was looking for in my search, and quickly sourced multiple roles that suited my preferences, down to the intricacies of the day-to-day work. She was also communicative about deadlines and expectations and I faced no surprises in the multiple interview pipelines she helped me enter. She was also an incredible advocate in the negotiating process, helping me hit my target with limited back & forth, keeping a professional touch throughout.

I’d recommend her to any of my mid-level/senior engineering colleagues for help in finding a new role. It was the best recruiting relationship I’ve had in my career and I’d use her assistance again in a heartbeat.

Book a quick 15-minute call to learn more about these opportunities!