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📆 This Week in the Newsletter 📆
👋 Hey there - You may have noticed a pattern sneaking into these emails: most weeks (don’t audit the calendar) we drop a Deep Dive on one of Coastal’s startup partners. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, I highly-recommend checking them out below:
The Good News: These aren’t going anywhere. In fact, we’re doubling down on this style of content. More interviews, deeper dives, more insider access to the best startups in SF & NY.
The Bad News: You have to wait a week. Sorry. Interviews have to be done and stories written.
So…
Since I find myself with quite a bit of extra space in this week’s newsletter, we’re doing an extended edition of Hot Startups Hiring. If you want to learn more about a particular role or company, book a time with one of Coastal’s recruiters.
We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled program next week, and in the meantime check out what Hot Startups are Hiring below.
👇 Alright on to the good stuff 👇
🔥 Hot Startups Hiring - Extended Cut🔥
🤖 AI — San Francisco
Risk / Fraud
💸 Round/Funding: Series A · $27 M
🏦 Investors: First Round, Liquid 2, Ribbit, YC
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Erase fraud before it happens.
🧑💻 Roles: Senior Fullstack Engineer
💸 Salary: $150-2215 K cash
“Wage war on fraud, ship PyTorch, and pocket Visa-scale bragging rights.”
Generative A/V
💸 Round/Funding: Seed · $5.5 M
🏦 Investors: Google Ventures, Y Combinator
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: 50 ms generative audio/video for every app.
🏗️ Product: GPU grid that trains & serves A/V models via two API calls.
📣 Talking Points: 1,200 paying teams in 90 days · ex-OpenAI founders.
🧑💻 Roles: Sr Front-End · ML Eng · Sr Full-Stack · Designer
💸 Salary: $185-230 K + equity
Pitch: “Render Pixar-grade clips before your espresso cools.”
Expert-Panel Chat
💸 Round/Funding: Series A · $18.8 M
🏦 Investors: Founders Fund, Lux, Sequoia Scouts
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Crowd-source real-time expert debate via AI.
🏗️ Product: Live “human-intelligence panel” chat-bot.
📣 Talking Points: 25 K beta users · <200 ms latency graph DB.
🧑💻 Roles: FE Eng · AI Researcher · Research Eng · UX Lead
💸 Salary: $200-270 K + equity
Pitch: “Ship React that lets users argue with digital Aristotle.”
🤖 AI — New York
Cloud Cost Optimization
💸 Round/Funding: Series A · $24.3 M
🏦 Investors: Nat Friedman, Naval, Sound Ventures
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Autoslash every cloud bill on Earth.
🏗️ Product: Spark-driven cost-optimizer that PRs Terraform fixes.
📣 Talking Points: $5 M ARR · tripling YoY.
🧑💻 Roles: Staff FE · ML Eng · Infra Eng · Sr BE
💸 Salary: $200-300 K + ≈1 %
Pitch: “Slice AWS like sashimi—then go brag to the CFO.”
Self-Healing Infrastructure
💸 Round/Funding: Seed · $18 M
🏦 Investors: a16z, Thrive, NVIDIA Inception
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Kill the on-call pager with self-healing infra.
🏗️ Product: Agents detect drift, auto-patch K8s & Snowflake.
📣 Talking Points: Handles 100 M events/day · <50 ms latency.
🧑💻 Roles: Staff Infra Lead · Sr Platform · AI Eng · SRE
💸 Salary: Up to $300 K + 1 %
Pitch: “Write Rust once, sleep forever.”
Video Understanding
💸 Round/Funding: Series A · $170 M
🏦 Investors: Databricks, NVIDIA, Index, NEA
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Let machines truly watch video.
🏗️ Product: Multimodal video-understanding model (SOTA).
📣 Talking Points: 100 PB corpus · 3× faster than Google VideoBERT.
🧑💻 Roles: Staff Data Eng · Sr MLOps · Research Sci · Backend
💸 Salary: $220-275 K + equity
Pitch: “Feed 100 PB of video to a model smarter than ESPN.”
💵 FinTech — New York
Fund Finance OS
💸 Round/Funding: Series A · $26 M
🏦 Investors: Human Capital, Primary VC, MetaProp
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: OS for fund finance.
🏗️ Product: Dashboard to close books, model scenarios, spit LP reports.
📣 Talking Points: Six funds onboard <6 mo · ex-Stripe/Carta founders.
🧑💻 Roles: Sr Full-Stack · Staff Backend · Sr Infra · Data Eng
💸 Salary: $170-210 K + 0.4-0.8 %
Pitch: “Kill the midnight VLOOKUP. Rust + React your way to richer LPs.”
Stable-Coin Compliance Rails
💸 Round/Funding: Seed · $9 M
🏦 Investors: Sequoia Scout, Union Square Angels
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Real-time compliance rails for stable-coin payments.
🏗️ Product: API that tokenizes KYC + AML checks.
📣 Talking Points: 40 banks in sandbox · RegTech veterans.
🧑💻 Roles: Sr Backend · Platform Eng · Security Eng · FE
💸 Salary: $160-200 K + equity
Pitch: “Turn boring AML into a single curl command.”
Healthcare Billing Automation
💸 Round/Funding: Series B · $37 M
🏦 Investors: Foundation, Lightspeed, YC
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Automate healthcare referrals & billing.
🏗️ Product: HIPAA-compliant LLM that ingests faxes, spits clean claims.
📣 Talking Points: Cuts turnaround 14 days → 4 hrs · ARR 8-digit.
🧑💻 Roles: DevOps · Sr Full-Stack · ML Eng · Data Sci
💸 Salary: $190-240 K + equity
Pitch: “Zap fax machines, save lives, get paid.”
💵 FinTech — San Francisco
Vehicle Checkout
💸 Round/Funding: Series A · $20 M
🏦 Investors: Andreessen, Index Seed
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Stripe Checkout for vehicles.
🏗️ Product: OEM “buy button” to sell cars online in a week.
📣 Talking Points: 20 brands live · millions GMV.
🧑💻 Roles: Sr Full-Stack · Infra Eng · Front-End · Mobile
💸 Salary: $155-220 K + equity
Pitch: “Ship Go code that sells your neighbor’s next EV.”
Instant Gig-Worker Payouts
💸 Round/Funding: Seed · $8 M
🏦 Investors: Plaid Angels, SV Angel, a16z Crypto
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: One-tap salary-advance for gig workers.
🏗️ Product: Instant-payout ledger + risk engine.
📣 Talking Points: 100 K drivers onboard · NACHA rails.
🧑💻 Roles: ML Eng · Back-End · Data Eng · FE
💸 Salary: $165-210 K + 1-2 %
Pitch: “Give freelancers payday super-powers.”
AI FP&A Copilot
💸 Round/Funding: Series A · $28 M
🏦 Investors: 8VC, Founders Fund, Menlo
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: AI-native FP&A for mid-market CFOs.
🏗️ Product: Finance copilot that swaps Excel models for chat prompts.
📣 Talking Points: 200 logos · triple-digit NDR.
🧑💻 Roles: Lead Product Eng · Sr Backend · Analytics Eng · FE
💸 Salary: $185-250 K + equity
Pitch: “Turn CFOs into prompt engineers—and cash in on it.”
🌐 Web3 / Crypto — New York
Payment Links
💸 Round/Funding: Seed · $20 M
🏦 Investors: Sequoia, Multicoin, Pantera
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Send money as easy as sharing a link.
🏗️ Product: Browser-native payment-link rails for USDC + fiat.
📣 Talking Points: PayPal partnership pilot · Series B term-sheets circling.
🧑💻 Roles: Full-Stack · Infra · Smart-Contract · Front-End
💸 Salary: Market cash + founder-level equity
Pitch: “Copy-paste a URL, teleport value.”
On-Chain Game Assets
💸 Round/Funding: Series A · $25 M
🏦 Investors: Paradigm, Coinbase Ventures
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Give every game a secure on-chain asset store.
🏗️ Product: SDK + L2 rollup for in-game NFTs with zero gas.
📣 Talking Points: 30 studios integrated; 5 M wallets.
🧑💻 Roles: Sr Solidity · Backend · DevOps · Unity SDK
💸 Salary: $170-230 K + token/equity
Pitch: “Own the code that mints 10 K skins per second—no MetaMask pop-ups.”
DeFi Analytics with ZK
💸 Round/Funding: Seed · $12 M
🏦 Investors: Electric Capital, Dragonfly
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Privacy-first DeFi analytics.
🏗️ Product: ZK-powered query engine for on-chain data.
📣 Talking Points: 50 TB compressed ledger scans · Provable GDPR.
🧑💻 Roles: ZK Engineer · Data Eng · Full-Stack · DevRel
💸 Salary: $160-210 K + tokens
Pitch: “Crunch DeFi data without doxxing wallets.”
🌐 Web3 / Crypto — San Francisco
Social Tokens
💸 Round/Funding: Series A · $30 M
🏦 Investors: a16z Crypto, Slow, Polychain
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Mainstream social tokens for creators.
🏗️ Product: Layer-2 social graph + mobile wallet.
📣 Talking Points: 1 M daily on-chain reactions.
🧑💻 Roles: Mobile Lead · Backend · Smart-Contract · Growth Eng
💸 Salary: $175-240 K + tokens/equity
Pitch: “Put clout—and cash—on-chain.”
DAO Treasury Tools
💸 Round/Funding: Seed · $10 M
🏦 Investors: Bain Crypto, Variant
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: One-click DAO treasury management.
🏗️ Product: Multi-sig + yield routing with real-time risk scoring.
📣 Talking Points: Safeguards $400 M TVL.
🧑💻 Roles: Front-End · Security Eng · Backend · Data Sci
💸 Salary: $160-210 K + 1-2 %
Pitch: “Help DAOs stop spreadsheet-ing their billions.”
Institutional Risk Scoring
💸 Round/Funding: Series B · $45 M
🏦 Investors: Pantera, Lightspeed, Galaxy
🙏🏼 Mission/Vision: Real-time crypto risk engine for institutions.
🏗️ Product: API that scores wallets, protocols, and chains in <100 ms.
📣 Talking Points: Powers compliance for five tier-1 exchanges.
🧑💻 Roles: Staff Backend · ML Eng · Data Eng · Platform
💸 Salary: $190-260 K + equity/tokens
Pitch: “Detect rug-pulls before they trend on CT—and get paid TradFi cash.”
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