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How does a company with $13B in revenue make $1.4T in spend commitments?
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🔥 THIS WEEK'S HOT SEAT 🔥
🗽 Cyber Agents Protecting the World's Largest Brands from AI-Powered Threats! 🤖
🏙️ Location: New York City
💰 Comp: $180 - $255K
🚀 Stage: Series B: $20M
🏦 Backers: Ballistic Ventures, Charles River, Goldcrest Capital (first investors in SpaceX), Mantis Ventures, Shrug Ventures, Slow Ventures
🥵 The Opportunity
This Startup is protecting the digital presence of the world's largest brands, businesses and IP with AI agents.
They secure modern attack surfaces through advanced search, real-time threat classification, and automated response.
Founding team ran Palantir's moonshot incubator, securing angel investments from AI and cyber leaders
Hit profitability in 7 months
Doubled revenue every quarter for the last 3 quarters.
⁉️ Hard Problems They’re Solving
Agentic research: Understanding threat groups and influence operations across heterogeneous web data sources.
Efficient investigation: Building sophisticated yet cost-efficient agents to determine whether domains are malicious following hundreds of chained redirects.
Signal detection: Surfacing threats from millions of content pieces to identify emerging impacts and trends.
👀 Who They’re Looking For
Seniority: Mid Level ---> Staff Level Engineers
Open Roles ($180-$255k):
Full Stack Engineers
Front End Engineers
Back End Engineers
AI/ML Engineers
Ideal Candidates Have:
Experience with Dev Infra / building systems
Start-up experience (1000 people or less)
🔥 5 More Startups Hiring This Week
| Company | Role | Comp | Stage | Why Now |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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AI Observability Infrastructure 🏙️ Remote |
Eng Manager, Senior Back End, Staff Back End, Mid-level Full Stack | 💰 $180k-$270K + equity | Series C, $131M+ | $70M raise in 2024. Microsoft, Datadog, Cisco backing. 1T+ inference spans processed. Fortune 500s trust them. |
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Insurance Workflow Automation 🏙️ SF |
Senior Full Stack, Full Stack, Forward Deployed Eng, Staff SWE | 💰 $180-$300K + equity | Seed, $5M | $100K to $1M+ ARR in one quarter. 30% QoQ growth. 140% NDR. 25 brokerages saving thousands of hours. |
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DeFi Quantitative Trading 🏙️ NYC |
Data Engineer, Rust Engineer, Smart Contract Engineer | 💰 $200K-$300K+ | Bootstrapped | Hundreds of millions weekly volume. 80% profit margins. Partnerships with Solana, Mysten Labs. Founder-owned. |
🛠️ More Startups - Quick Hits
🚀 AI Video Infrastructure | AI, Content
📍 SF | 💵 $150K-$250K + 0.02%-0.25% equity | 🚀 Series A, $15M
This startup’s platform searches public and private video repositories at global scale, evaluates video for quality and semantics, and processes ~50 petabytes monthly (~25M hours of video) for the world's most advanced AI labs. From 0 to multimillion dollar run-rate in 3 months, backed by Matrix and leading AI labs building vision-language, avatar, and robotics models.
Roles: Research Eng, Sr. BE, Sr. FS, Distr. Systems Eng
🚀 Go-To-Market Intelligence | SaaS
📍 NYC, SF | 💵 $180K-$225K + equity | 🚀 Series B, $58M
This startup consolidates all go-to-market signals- web, product, sales, and marketing—into a single intelligent workspace, using AI to score high-intent leads and automate cross-tool workflows. Raised $58M from Thrive, Emergence, OpenAI, and Battery Ventures, adopted by hypergrowth startups.
Roles: Sr. BE, Sr. FS, Staff SWE, Eng Manager
🚀 AI Search Analytics | AI
📍 NYC | 💵 $150K-$250K + $100K-$250K equity/4 years | 🚀 Series B, $35M
This startup is building the analytics layer for the AI search era, helping brands stay visible as search shifts from links to AI-generated answers with Answer Engine Insights and Conversation Explorer. $10M ARR in under 12 months (targeting $25M by EoY), raised $35M from Sequoia, NVIDIA, SV Angel, processing 100M+ AI search queries monthly with 150 qualified customer inbounds daily.
Roles: Full Stack Engineer, Front End, Back End, Infrastructure Engineer
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⏰ Last Call for This Week
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