Hot Startups Hiring, Feb 4

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Now - without further ado - check out the startups hiring - broken down by AI/ML, Crypto and Healthcare

Hot Crypto/Web3 Startups Hiring

Leading Wallet as a Service (Series A) - Remote

• Mission/Vision: Leading Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform that helps fintechs, institutions, and enterprises worldwide simplify digital asset management and securely bring users into crypto.

• TLDR:

  • Their API-first approach has made them the most popular developer platform to configure, automate and orchestrate digital asset applications and operations at scale. 130 fintech clients, $1 billion in monthly transactions, 10+ million API calls per month

  • Trusted by clients like ABN AMRO, Fidelity, Zodia Custody, Bridge, Stripe, and more than 100 financial applications, they have created over 10 million wallets and secures 1 billion in transactions per month — zero hacks or lost keys

• Open Roles:

  • Principal + Staff Engineers

Digital Asset Trading Platform - Series B (Sequoia, Greylock) - Remote

• Mission/Vision: On a mission 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

• Open Roles:

  • Senior/Staff Fullstack Engineers

Leading Stablecoin Platform - Series A (Sequoia) - SF

• Mission/Vision: Building the Stripe for stablecoins, their APIs allow developers to build applications and businesses on top of stablecoins.

• TLDR:

  • Provided millions with faster and cheaper access to cross-border payments; growing monthly payments volume to $1M/month 1 year ago to $500M/month today

  • Founding team has previously built financial infrastructure at Coinbase, Stripe, Square, Brex, Upstart, DoorDash, Airbnb, etc.

• Open Roles:

  • Senior/Staff Frontend Engineer

  • Senior/Staff Fullstack Engineer

Hot AI/ML Startups Hiring

Horizontal AI Agents - Seed (Felicis) - SF

• Mission/Vision: Building the platform to build stateful AI agents. They were founded by the creators of MemGPT, which introduced memory management for LLMs to enable infinite context.

• TLDR:

  • Founding team has deep expertise in NLP, Reinforcement Learning, and AI systems - allowing them to have a strong sense of how the AI agents stack will evolve over time.

  • Established their own framework for building agents with advanced memory management, reasoning, tool calling, and persisted state.

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Fullstack Engineer

  • Senior Backend Engineer

  • Senior Frontend Engineer

  • AI/ML Engineer

Automating Account w/AI - Seed (Elad Gill) - SF

• 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

• Open Roles:

  • Head of Infrastructure / Staff Infrastructure Lead

AI-Powered Digital Clones - Series A (Sequoia) - SF

• Mission/Vision: Building a new medium of knowledge exchange that enables anyone to create digital representations of their mind with infinite scaleability

• TLDR:

  • Notable customers: Tony Robbins, Robert Cialdini, Lewis Howes, Cody Sanchez, Matthew Hussey, Brendon Burchard, Sam Feldt, Natalie Ellis, Brian Tracy, Ben Greenfield, etc

  • 14M Series A led by Sequoia + cap table that includes: Founders Fund, Lux

  • Scaled to $1M+ ARR with 0 marketing

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Backend / Infra Engineer

  • Senior Fullstack Engineer

  • Senior Frontend Engineer

Hot AI/ML Healthcare Startups Hiring

Cutting Through Prior-Auth - Series A (Thrive Capital, General Catalyst) - NYC

• Mission/Vision: Accelerating access to medicine

• TLDR:

  • This startup is building a network of doctors, patients, and data to apply AI to every step of bringing new drugs to market.

  • Exceptional organic growth. Currently supports thousands of patients every week and is doubling physician user count every month. Will reach millions of users by EoY, targeting for $XXM ARR by EoY

  • AI-first business model. Their approach is distinctly enabled by AI, but their business will get stronger (not commoditized) as foundation models improve. They are building durability through two-sided network effects that will compound over time

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Fullstack Engineers

  • Senior AI/ML Engineer

  • Senior Frontend Engineers

  • Senior Backend Engineers

Automated Healthcare Back-office - Series B (Lightspeed, a16z) - NYC

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

• TLDR:

  • Incredibly strong strong PMF / commercial traction; 2nd fastest growing startup in a16z’s portfolio

  • Doubling ARR this year to $XXM+

  • 15 person engineering team

• Open Roles:

  • Engineering Manager

  • Fullstack Engineers (Senior —> Principal)

Advancing Hospital Scheduling - Seed (YC) - SF + Remote

• Mission/Vision: Solving the most pressing clinical operations problems for health systems

• TLDR:

  • Solving the most pressing clinical operations problems for health systems, enabling health systems to optimize how they schedule and deploy nursing staff to align with real-time patient demand

  • Explosive commercial growth: $2.5M ARR in 2024; plans to triple in 2025

  • Working with top hospital systems in the US

• Open Roles:

  • Senior Fullstack Engineer

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