Hot Startups Hiring Across AI, Crypto and Fintech

Hey there from Coastal Recruiting 👋! For those new, Coastal Recruiting is a boutique firm helping top techcnial talent in NYC and SF land jobs at at T1 Venture-backed startups - working with founders backed by a16z, Lightspeed, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Lux Capital, and more..

We represent some of the hottest startups building their engineering teams, and help brilliant engineers - from Coast-to-Coast 😜 - find their next home. Time and time again, we hear from candidates we’re the least-transactional, most consultative recruitment experience they’ve ever worked with (many of them then bring us on to hire after we help place them). #GoodPeopleKnowGoodPeople - and that is what Coastal is built on.

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🚀 Most In-Demand Roles Across the Startup Landscape

• Fullstack Engineers

• Backend Engineers

• Frontend Engineers

• AI/ML Engineers

• Crypto/Web3 Engineers

• Product Designers

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Now - without further ado - check out the startups below building teams in New York City, San Francisco, and fully remote.

Hot Startups Hiring in San Francisco 🌉

Comprehensive, Personalized Healthcare - Seed (Susa Ventures, Long Journey)

• Mission/Vision: Change the way people engage with their health, for life.

• TLDR:

  • Building the most comprehensive and convenient healthcare system on the planet – a thoughtfully designed, all-in-one platform for easily improving your personal health

  • Extremely strong engineering team (ex YC-founders, Principal Engineers, etc) building an all-in-one, 360 degree health concierge platform

  • Waitlist is 150,000+ with zero marketing

AI Automation for Accounting - Seed (T1 Angels like Elad Gil, Kyle Vogt, Garry Tan)

• Mission/Vision: Bringing the AI age to the $600BB accounting services market by building intelligent systems.

• TLDR:

  • Building software for accounting firms to ingest large volume of documents and get their work-papers ready, focused on Schedule K-1 and Schedule K-3.

  • Great early signs of product market fit: low seven figures of revenue, just signed number five accounting firm in the nation as customer, and have multiple additional top firms engaged for potential further deals

  • CEO is a repeat founder, sold both prior AI companies to Facebook

Revolutionizing Customer, Sales and Marketing - Seed (Human Capital)

• Mission/Vision: Building a singular, LLM-based platform to disrupt one of the world’s most valuable software categories end-to-end: CRM.

• TLDR:

  • Co-Founders we’re previously C-Suite at Brex, Apollo and Clari.

  • Tier 1 investors with max conviction: $15M Seed A from Human Capital (Scale AI, Brex, Snowflake, Anduril)

  • Ground-floor opty to build a generational company that will disrupt some of the biggest tech companies in the world (Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP)

Hot Startups Hiring in New York City 🗽

Back-office Healthcare Automation - Series B (YC, a16z, Lightspeed)

• Mission/Vision: Automation platform that puts RaeLM to work for Healthcare

• TLDR:

  • Building automation solutions for the healthcare industry, focusing on insurance provider communication, and patient referrals.

  • Incredibly strong PMF ($XXM+ ARR, plans to double by EoY) with small, elite team in Flatiron

  • Founders have contagious energy with a vibrant, in-office culture

Autonomous Defense Shield - Seed (a16z, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross)

• Mission/Vision: Arming critical enterprises with autonomous cyber defenses.

• TLDR:

  • Security platform combines data fusion and expert autonomy to deliver results to critical enterprises, augmenting their team at every level

  • Actively deployed at Fortune 100 customers, US Space Force and the US Navy

  • Technical team of alumni from Palantir, Shield AI, CrowdStrike, and the US Government

On-Chain Prop Trading - Bootstrapped (Founder-owned, profitable)

• Mission/Vision: On-chain proprietary, high-frequency trading business supporting on-chain assets with an AUM of $20M.

• TLDR:

  • Small, agile team over-taking market share from massive incumbents in the space. Solely focused on-chain.

  • Team comes from TradFi, digital assets, and high frequency trading

  • Strong BD motions; established partnerships in place with leading web3 ecosystems (e.g. Solana, Mysten Labs, etc). Pacing for $XXM+ in profit by EoY (80% Profit Margins)

Remote-First Opportunities 🌎

Leading NFT Trading Platform - Series B (Sequoia, Greylock, Paradigm)

• Mission/Vision: Mission is to be the one-stop shop destination for digital assets to supercharge web3 commerce

• TLDR:

  • Leading Multi-Chain NFT Platform - Pushing Boundaries on Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin

  • 22M+ Unique Monthly Users (largest on Solana) & 8K+ NFT collections, 100K+ daily wallet connections, $1.9 B secondary trading volume

  • Remote across US

Leading Blockchain - Series B (a16z Crypto, Thrive Capital, Ribbit)

• Mission/Vision: Creating foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

• TLDR:

  • $175M Series A (a16z, Paradigm, Thrive Capital, Ribbit Capital, Coatue)

  • Globally remote company and work culture

  • Brilliant co-founders who are blockchain thought leaders

360 Degree Cyber Command - Series A (Ballistic Ventures)

• Mission/Vision: Pioneering advanced AI to reinvent security operation. Using the first generative AI for cybersecurity, they seamlessly connects to an organization's existing security stack.

• TLDR:

  • Founders spent 10+ yers decade building detection and prevention products @ iconic cybersecurity companies – Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint, and Cylance

  • $20M Raised from T1 cybersecurity investors

  • Strong enterprise GTM motion & pipeline

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