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Welcome to 2026. You’re either still recovering from champagne and questionable resolutions, or you work a 9-9-6. Regardless, this edition of Good People is kicking off the new year with 8 new opportunities. We’ve got an AI evaluation platform that just hit unicorn status (again) , autonomous cybersecurity agents, and the browser automation tool that's 179x faster than anything else on the market.
New year, new roles, same elite bar.
Skim the hot seat, scan the roster, and book your intro before Q1 planning locks in headcount.
🔥 New Year's Hot Seat 🔥
Document Intelligence API | The Data Layer Powering Enterprise AI
This Startup is the enterprise-grade document intelligence platform that transforms PDFs, images, tables, and handwritten forms into structured data optimized for AI workflows. They believe the future of AI depends on understanding messy, real-world data—and they've processed over 1 billion pages to prove it.
🏙️ Location: SF (5 days onsite)
💰 Comp: $150K–$300K
🚀 Stage: Series B, $110M
🏦 Backers: a16z, Benchmark, First Round, BoxGroup, Y Combinator
The Opportunity: This Startup owns the entire document processing stack from start to finish, eliminating brittle OCR systems with a single, reliable API designed for scale and precision. They're powering document extraction for Harvey, Scale AI, Mercor, and a Fortune 10 enterprise—with 99.9% uptime and SOC2/HIPAA compliance.
Why This Matters:
✅ 1B+ documents processed, 6x growth since Series A less than 6 months ago
✅ $600M valuation after $75M Series B led by a16z (October 2025)
✅ Multiple-millions ARR with just 33 people
✅ 60 years of runway—they're here to stay
✅ 15-person eng team building LLM-optimized outputs for retrieval and embedding
Roles: Sr. BE, Sr. FE, AI/ML, Infra
📰 News From Our Network 📰
📈 Beehiiv Doubles Ad Sales Team, Scaling Newsletter Ads Business
⁉️ What's happening: Beehiiv is doubling its ad sales team as advertiser demand grows for email-native inventory and creators look for passive revenue streams. The expansion signals major momentum in the newsletter monetization space.
🔐 IBM's Crypto Partner Dfns Integrates Concordium for Web3 Compliance
⁉️ What's happening: Dfns integrated Concordium's layer-1 blockchain to add identity-verified wallets to its Wallet-as-a-Service platform as institutions seek compliant Web3 adoption. Another step toward enterprise-grade crypto infrastructure.
🫦 The 2026 Roster 🫦
Company | Role | Comp | Stage | Why Now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Data + AI Personalization 🏙️ NYC, SF, Remote | Staff BE, Sr. BE, Distributed Systems Eng, AI/ML | 💰 $200K-$300K | Series C, $100M+ | 900+ customers including Capital One, Lululemon. 1M events/sec infrastructure. |
GTM Data Intelligence 🏙️ SF, NYC | Sr. FS, Eng Manager, Staff BE, AI/ML | 💰 $180K-$265K | Series B, $58M | Backed by OpenAI and Thrive. Running millions of AI agents monthly. 20% MoM growth. |
Enterprise Data AI 🏙️ SF, South Bay | Sr. BE, Platform Eng, Sr. FS, AI/ML | 💰 $250K-$300K | Series A, $50M+ | Fortune 100 customers including Cisco. Team from Google Search, Databricks, AWS. |
Autonomous Cybersecurity 🏙️ SF, NYC | Sr. BE, Sr. FS, Sr. FE, Staff SWE | 💰 $200K-$300K | Series A | Star-studded team from Abnormal and Coinbase. 20+ enterprise POCs in 4 months. Just closed large Series A. |
Tax-Smart Investing 🏙️ SF, NYC | Sr. BE, Staff BE | 💰 $180K-$250K | Series A, $25M | $500M AUM in <2 years. 3-5% weekly growth. First to launch long-short indexing self-serve. |
🚀 Fresh Opportunities 🚀
🎯 Voice AI for Home Services | AI
📍 NYC (5 days onsite) | 💵 $180K–$250K | 🚀 Series A, $50M
This Startup builds AI-powered conversational agents that handle high-value inbound calls for home service companies—booking jobs, qualifying leads, and driving revenue at a speed unmatched by human call centers. Kleiner Perkins' fastest-growing startup with $15M+ ARR in just 12 months. Backed by Jack Altman and Y Combinator.
Roles: Sr. FS, Sr. BE, FS, BE
🎯 AI Agent Layer for B2B Revenue | AI, B2B, Marketing
📍 NYC (5 days onsite) | 💵 $180K–$250K | 🚀 Series B, $70M
This Startup powers B2B revenue teams with AI that researches accounts and creates customer-facing campaigns automatically. Elite 6-person eng org moving like a 60-person team—trusted by Figma, Uber, GitLab, Amplitude. Team includes ex-CTO of Heap, ex-Google, ex-Stripe talent.
Roles: Sr. BE, Sr. FS, AI/ML
🎯 Browser Automation Redefined | AI, DevTooling
📍 NYC & Remote | 💵 $220K–$250K | 🚀 Seed, $6M
This Startup is building Linear for browser-based automations—179x faster workflows with instant local Chrome execution. Best local execution in market with 4,000+ critical jobs per month at a leading mental health provider. Backed by Accel with team from Palantir, Square, Google, and Apple.
Roles: FS-FE, Sr. FE
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⏰ Last Call for This Week ⏰
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