I think we’ll be there in three to six months—where AI is writing 90 percent of the code. And then in twelve months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code.
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📆 This Week in the Newsletter 📆
🥳 Happy Friday! Yesterday the YouTube algorithm shined favor on me, recommending a new interview with Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. The show’s host Alex Kantrowitz, puts on a masterclass in technical journalism, challenging Dario to engage in a sort of intellectual sparring match. The result is a conversation that goes far beyond typical CEO talking points, giving us a glimpse into one of AI’s key figures. Link down below 👇
🎧 What We’re Listening To: The interview between Alex Kantrowitz and Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic. A lot to unpack, with topics ranging from how humans consistently underestimate exponentials, the unit economics of AI, and how he feels after Jensen Huang called him a liar. Watch the interview here →
📖 What We’re Reading: The Making Of Dario Amodei, Alex Kantrowitz’s full profile on AI’s most outspoken leader. Dario Amodei’s journey from a science-driven childhood to leading Anthropic is shaped by personal loss and a relentless belief in AI’s transformative power. He champions the “scaling laws” of AI, arguing that bigger models and more data will predictably yield better results, and has positioned Anthropic as a business-focused, safety-conscious alternative to OpenAI. Read the profile here →
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🔥 Hot Startups Hiring🔥
📚 Startup #1 📚
🏙️ Hiring Location: NYC
🛠️ Industry: AI, DevTooling
💸 Round/Funding: Series B, $80M
🏦 Investors: Accel, Menlo Ventures, a16z
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: This Startup’s mission is to accelerate software development by making the code review process seamless, fast, and collaborative.
Their vision is to become the central platform for developer collaboration—handling everything from code review to testing and deployment—built with the same internal tooling philosophies used by elite engineering teams at Google, Facebook, and Airbnb.
🏗️ Product: This Startup is building a modern code review platform, deeply integrated with GitHub, that improves collaboration, speeds up reviews, and simplifies CI/CD.
The platform includes:
Fast, customizable code review client
Stacked diffs and intelligent merge logic
GitHub integration without forcing full migration
Future roadmap includes AI-assisted reviews, CI integration, and deeper deployment tools.
📣 Talking Points:
Next-Gen Code Review: Inspired by FAANG internal tools, This Startup brings fast, structured code review to any dev team—no migration needed.
Trusted by teams at Asana, Ramp, Vercel and Chronosphere
$80M+ in backing from DevTool Leaders: With backing from Accel, a16z, and Figma Ventures, This Startup is building the future platform for developer collaboration.
🧑💻 Roles: Senior Full Stack; Senior Back End; Senior Front End; Staff Software Engineer
💸 Salary: $180-240k
🚙 Days Required Onsite: 5
🛠️ Startup #2 🛠️
🏙️ Hiring Location: SF
🛠️ Industry: AI, Recruitment
💸 Round/Funding: Series A, $6M
🏦 Investors: Nat Friedman + Daniel Gross
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: This Startup is the modern AI recruiting platform that helps teams find talent faster. Trusted by over 2,000+ customers, including teams at leading AI labs, agencies, and high-growth companies like Scale AI, Patreon and Replit. This Startup helps recruiters source faster, find qualified talent, and scale personalized engagement.
🏗️ Product: AI recruiting platform with search across 800M+ profiles and autonomous agents that run candidate discovery and outreach
📣 Talking Points:
This Startup has 2,500+ Customers, including Perplexity, OpenAI, Patreon
$6M raised and cash-flow positive for 3+ months, Growing 30% month over month, Mid 7-figures in revenue, 5x’d revenue since their last fundraise
Small company / eng team - opportunity with tremendous upside
🧑💻 Roles: Senior Full Stack; Senior Back End; Full Stack Engineer
💸 Salary: $140k-260
🚙 Days Required Onsite: 5
📊 Startup #3 📊
🏙️ Hiring Location: NYC
🛠️ Industry: AI, Healthcare
💸 Round/Funding: Series A, $32M
🏦 Investors: 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.
🏗️ Product: A singular portal to interface with every health insurance company in America in a streamlined and automated fashion, consolidating a fragment and broken process
📣 Talking Points:
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
Strong founding team (ex-Ramp) backed by T1 Investors
🧑💻 Roles: Back End; Full Stack Engineer
💸 Salary: Mid: $150-180K, Senior: $180 - 220K; Staff: $220K+
🚙 Days Required Onsite: 5
🏦 Startup #4 🏦
🏙️ Hiring Location: SF
🛠️ Industry: AI, Robotics
💸 Round/Funding: Seed, $15M
🏦 Investors: Founders Fund, Founders of Anduril and Palantir, Thrive Capital
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: This Startup is building the enterprise robotics company. Previously, at Anduril and Tesla, we built autonomous systems that are now deployed across the globe. This Startup’s mission is to make the world safer by bringing these situational awareness capabilities to American companies. Using This Startup, our customers know everything that is going on in their physical environments in real time. Soon, we will build robotics solutions that help our customers act as well as see. Future products include automated security response (e.g. drone dispatched to ward off intruders) and logistics support (e.g. send a robot to unload a truck as soon as it pulls into a facility).
🏗️ Product: This Startup’s first product is a wireless camera mesh that detects physical activity (intrusions, safety issues, vehicle movement, etc.) in real time—up to 1km from power and connectivity sources.
It enables security and operations teams to:
Instantly detect threats or anomalies
Get full situational awareness at the edge of large or remote physical environments
Customize real-time alerts via an intuitive interface
This isn't just a surveillance tool—it's the first step in autonomous response systems like drone-based deterrents and robotic logistics, already in the product pipeline.
This Startup is also building toward real-time digital twins of enterprise operations—something no legacy physical security platform comes close to enabling — think, ‘God Mode UI’
📣 Talking Points:
Built by ex-Anduril, Tesla, and Special Forces operators, This Startup is turning the defense-grade perception stack into something scalable for U.S. businesses.
This Startup already has 10 Global 2000s under contract—not just “interested,” but locked in. PMF is real and the upside is massive.
From edge mesh computing to real-time autonomy, you’ll be working at the intersection of robotics, AI, and hardware—helping define a brand new category. This Startup is building ‘God Mode UI’ to protect the physical, outdoor segments of America’s most important businesses.
🧑💻 Roles: Full Stack Engineer; Back End
💸 Salary: $150k-250K
🚙 Days Required Onsite: 5
🤖 Startup #5 🤖
🏙️ Hiring Location: NYC
🛠️ Industry: AI, SaaS
💸 Round/Funding: Series A, $30M
🏦 Investors: Craft Ventures, Floodgate, Sozo Ventures
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: This Startup’s mission is to transform how startups are discovered and funded—so that the most promising ideas don’t get missed. Their platform powers sourcing, diligence, and pipeline workflows for top venture firms and startup buyers by providing the richest real-time index of early-stage companies available.
Their vision is to become the source of truth for startup data—fueling smarter investing, better GTM, and faster talent matchmaking.
🏗️ Product: This Startup is building the startup discovery engine of record—a single platform that combines real-time data, an AI research assistant, and collaborative CRM tools.
Key capabilities:
“Scout” investment agent: AI-powered research assistant for startup due diligence
Flow CRM: Workflow tool for tagging, annotating, and managing startup interactions
Granular search: Find startups by stage, team size, domain, funding, and other signals—down to “two founders in a garage”
Used daily by investors, corp dev, and talent teams to discover and act faster on high-potential startups.
📣 Talking Points:
Double-digit ARR with a 15-person eng team: This Startup is moving fast and shipping real product that drives ARR—without bloated teams or half-baked ideas.
Redefining how venture capital works: The best startups get missed all the time. This Startup is fixing that—by helping VCs and buyers find the next fund-returner before it gets picked up by Crunchbase or LinkedIn.
The tools investors didn’t know they needed—until now: Flow + Scout turns This Startup from a search engine into a system of record for startup relationships. This is Notion x GPT—but purpose-built for the venture world.
🧑💻 Roles: Senior Full Stack; Full Stack (Back End emphasis); Full Stack Engineer
💸 Salary: $180–$250k
🚙 Days Required Onsite: 3
⛑️ Startup #6 ⛑️
🏙️ Hiring Location: NYC
🛠️ Industry: AI, Healthcare
💸 Round/Funding: Seed, $11M
🏦 Investors: A*, Box, Epic Ventures, Liquid2, Maverick, SV Angel
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Increase America’s health span and provide 100M+ American employees and their families with an affordable, accessible, high quality, and aligned advanced primary-care experience.
🏗️ Product: A B2B2C healthcare platform that connects large employers and health insurers with high-quality, cost-effective advanced primary care providers. It operates as a marketplace that helps employers choose, contract with, and offer access to top-tier clinics and care organizations like One Medical, Galileo, Marathon, and others.
It’s like a matchmaking + infrastructure layer between modern care providers and the employers who want to offer them as benefits.
📣 Talking Points:
$11M raised from top investors like A*, SV Angel, Liquid2, and Box — building the next-gen health benefits platform for large employers.
Early traction with major customers like 7-Eleven and large employer groups (HTA, Cincinnati Employers Group), with 2–10x industry engagement rates from employees.
B2B2C marketplace model that connects employers to high-quality advanced primary care groups (e.g. One Medical, Galileo), already scaling nationally.
🧑💻 Roles: Staff Software Engineer
💸 Salary: $175k-$200k
🚙 Days Required Onsite: 2
🪄 Startup #7 🪄
🏙️ Hiring Location: SF
🛠️ Industry: AI, Automotive
💸 Round/Funding: Seed, $17M
🏦 Investors: Breakpoint Capital, Explorer Fund, Flex Capital, Unpopular Ventures, YC, a16z
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: This startup’s mission is to modernize how automotive dealerships handle communication by deploying intelligent AI agents that function as reliable, first-line team members.
The long-term vision is to build a fully autonomous AI teammate capable of managing all dealership communication and back-office tasks — from handling phone calls to executing service requests — allowing human staff to focus on high-value customer interactions like relationship building and closing sales.
🏗️ Product: This startup provides customizable AI agents for automotive dealerships that:
Answer 100% of inbound calls
Handle a wide range of service and sales requests autonomously
Are tailored to each dealership’s brand, tone, and workflows
Use multi-model LLM orchestration, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Groq, and in-house models
Support natural conversation, with edge-case training and environmental awareness
Integrate with internal systems like DMS, CRM, service scheduler, and external sources like NHTSA and Black Book
This startup’s voice AI platform was built entirely in-house.
📣 Talking Points:
AI voice agents for dealerships, already handling 1M+ call minutes since launch.
Backed by a16z, YC, and CarDealershipGuy and have clear PMF — with some dealerships seeing millions in recovered revenue and >50% of tasks fully handled by AI.
10-person team in SF early-stage, huge ownership, deep technical surface.
🧑💻 Roles: Senior Product Engineer
💸 Salary: $180k-$250k
🚙 Days Required Onsite: 3
☁️ Startup #8 ☁️
🏙️ Hiring Location: NYC
🛠️ Industry: AI, DevTooling
💸 Round/Funding: Series A, $24.3M
🏦 Investors: Aaron Levie, Anton Troynikov, Buckley Ventures, Daniel Gross, Framework Ventures, Nat Friedman, Naval, Sound Ventures
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: This startup is on a mission to eliminate cloud complexity. By combining deep infrastructure insight with powerful AI agents, the company automates configuration, optimization, and incident response—freeing engineers to focus on building, not debugging.
Vision: Infrastructure that configures, optimizes, and heals itself with minimal human intervention.
🏗️ Product: This startup’s current product automates cloud cost optimization by delivering personalized recommendations tailored to each customer’s infrastructure profile.
The upcoming product evolves this into an AI-driven infrastructure agent that:
Understands infrastructure deeply
Optimizes configurations
Automatically detects and resolves issues
Launches infrastructure in its best state from day one
Operates under outcome-based instructions (e.g., “keep this fast and reliable”)
📣 Talking Points:
From Monitoring to Autonomy - This startup isn’t building another DevOps tool—it’s building self-operating infrastructure that acts on your behalf, not just reports issues.
Proactive, Not Reactive - The AI agent prevents problems before they happen, optimizes configurations upfront, and handles outages without human input.
Deep Stack Automation - Competing with players like DataDog, This startup goes deeper—not just observing infra, but managing and evolving it in real time.
🧑💻 Roles: Product Engineer; Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning; Infrastructure Engineer; Senior Back End
💸 Salary: $200 - 300K
🚙 Days Required Onsite: 5
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