Issue No. 14 —The Talent Foundry

Bridging the gap between talent and startup gems in the hidden job market. 

Check out the latest roles below. In this edition:

• Who’s hiring: ~40 roles across Biz Ops & Strategy, Chief of Staff, Product and Marketing

• Who’s raised: 15+ new raise announcements

• What we’re reading: 5 articles to help you operate successfully in the startup world and find your next thing.

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Who’s Hiring

Who’s hiring

Product

Founding Product Manager at Alex AI (AI-powered video interviewing, Early Stage, Onsite) – Own product outcomes working directly with founders to ship revenue-driving features

Head of Product Management at Pareto.AI (AI data curation platform, Early Stage, Remote) – Lead product org to build world-class platform for high-quality AI training data delivery

Founding Product Manager at Glide ((White-label embedded fintech, Early Stage, Remote)) – Own the product roadmap and launch new banking products as first dedicated PM hire

Product Manager - Security at Seven AI ((AI cybersecurity platform, Early Stage, Remote)) – Own security product strategy balancing customer value with rapid iteration

Senior Product Manager - Insights at Nory (AI restaurant ops platform, Series B, London) – Lead AI intelligence strategy powering restaurant profitability through predictive analytics and operational insights

Product Lead at Emerald AI (AI-powered data center energy optimization, Series A, Bay Area) – Co-build product roadmap from zero, shaping how data centers scale AI sustainably with backing from Radical Ventures and NVIDIA

Senior Product Manager for Core Product at Apify Technologies s.r.o. (Web scraping & AI automation platform, Growth Stage, Prague) – Own product strategy for technically complex platform areas while driving discovery and growth experimentation

GTM/Growth/Marketing

Senior Manager, Content & Product Marketing at Maze (AI-native vulnerability management, Series A, Remote) – Pioneer content strategy and own product positioning for AI cybersecurity platform as founding marketing hire

Founding Product Marketing Manager at Alex AI (AI-powered video interviewing, Early Stage, Onsite) – Shape go-to-market messaging and positioning for AI recruiter disrupting hiring

Principal Product Marketing Manager at Laurel (AI time tracking for pro services, Early Stage, Onsite) – Lead product marketing strategy for AI platform serving top accounting and law firms

Head of SEO/AEO at Tilt Finance ((Mobile-first fintech lending, Early Stage, Remote)) – Lead SEO and AI engine optimization strategy for next-gen consumer finance platform

Head of Growth Marketing at Wordware ((Natural language AI development, Early Stage, SF)) – Own full-funnel growth engine from awareness to activation for AI development platform

Channel Partner Manager | ISV at Ramp ((AI-powered corporate finance, Early Stage, Remote)) – Build and manage ISV partner ecosystem to expand Ramp platform distribution

Head of Customer Success  at Broccoli AI ((AI voice agents for home services, Early Stage, SF)) – Scale customer success function maintaining 270% net dollar retention during hypergrowth

Head of Sales, Mid Market  at CUBE ((RegTech for financial services, Early Stage, Remote)) – Build and lead mid-market sales motion for AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform

Partnerships Lead at Reflection ((Open source AI models, Early Stage, Onsite)) – Build partnerships function from scratch to scale open superintelligence mission

Founding Account Executive, Investigate at SentiLink ((Identity verification APIs, Early Stage, Remote)) – Drive new product sales for investigation platform in fast-growing fraud prevention market

Founding Marketer at Silna Health ((Healthcare insurance workflows, Series A, Onsite)) – Build trusted brand narrative and product marketing for healthcare billing automation

Revenue Operations Lead at Toma (AI voice agents for auto dealerships, Series A, Remote) – Own revenue infrastructure and GTM operations as founding RevOps hire at a16z-backed AI voice platform

Head of Sales at Kernel (AI-native CRM data platform, Series A, London) – Build and scale sales org from 8 to 16+, owning end-to-end strategy for AI data infrastructure serving enterprise RevOps

Senior Director of Demand Generation at LucidLink (Cloud file streaming platform, Growth Stage, SF) – Lead and scale demand generation across US and EMEA, building high-performing team to drive pipeline at enterprise scale

Senior Product Marketing Manager at LucidLink (Cloud file streaming platform, Growth Stage, SF) – Own end-to-end GTM strategy translating complex infrastructure tech into compelling market narratives

Chief of Staff 

Chief of Staff at Bjak ((Digital insurance platform, Early Stage, Onsite)) – Partner with CEO to turn strategic vision into measurable execution across org

Biz Ops & Strategy

AI Founder, Generalist at Harper (AI commercial insurance distribution, Seed, Onsite) – Run full-cycle insurance operations to understand business at molecular level as founding generalist

Senior Operations Lead at Harper (AI commercial insurance distribution, Seed, Onsite) – Run operations capturing decision traces that enable AI to match human judgment

Strategy & Operations Lead at Broccoli AI (AI voice agents for home services, Series A, Onsite) – Build foundational strategy and ops function enabling 5x headcount growth

VP - Finance at Sentient (Open-source AI & crypto infrastructure, Series A, Remote) – Lead finance across fiat and crypto treasury at Founders Fund backed AI startup

Head of Operations (Auto/Secured lending) at Lendable (UK fintech unicorn, Series C+, London) – Own end-to-end operations for auto and secured lending products at UK fintech unicorn

Business Operations Manager at brightwheel (Cloud 100 ed tech SaaS, Series C+, Remote) – Drive operational initiatives and cross-functional projects at leading childcare software platform

VP, Strategy at Bjak (Digital insurance platform, Series B, Southeast Asia) – Lead strategic planning and corporate development for fast-growing insurtech

Head of Operations at Bjak (Digital insurance platform, Series B, Southeast Asia) – Lead operations across multiple markets for fast-growing insurtech serving millions

Who’s Raised

Seed

• $4.5m for Decoda Health from San Francisco, US (Digital Health, Finance)

• $4.1m for Tivara from New York City, US (AI, Healthcare)

• $500k for Prana (pranahealth.io) from San Francisco, US (Consumer Health, Healthcare)

• $4.6m for Mecha Health from San Francisco, US (AI, Healthcare)

• $500k for Bubble Lab AI from New York City, US (AI, Development Tools)

• $500k for Exonic from San Francisco, US (AI, Biotech)

• $500k for Mantis Biotech from New York City, US (AI, Architecture)

• $500k for Rovr (withrovr.com) from San Francisco, US (AI, B2B/Enterprise)

• $500k for Chasi AI from Brooklyn, US (AI, AI Concierge)

Series A

• Sprangle AI raised $15m to develop AI-powered technology that generates customized storefronts for online retailers

• $20m for Great Question from Oakland, US (B2B Solutions, Research)

• $12m for Jiga, Inc from Tel Aviv, Israel (3D Printing, Hardware)

• $5m for Morphle (AI, Computer Vision)

• $17.75m for Examedi from Santiago, Chile (Health/Medical, Healthcare)

• $6.5m for Double (Keeper) from New York City, US (Accounting, Accounting Practice Management)

• $17m for FINNY AI from New York City, US (Finance, Financial Advisory)

• $15m for Infracost from Edinburgh, US (AWS, Cloud)

Series B

• $450m for Boom Supersonic from Centennial, US (Aerospace, Aviation) to continue developing their supersonic commercial jet.

Series C

• $72m for CoLab Software from St. John's, Canada (Aerospace, Automotive)

Acquisitions

• CareRev from Los Angeles, US (Health/Medical, Healthcare) acquired by IntelyCare.

• Dioptra. from New York City, US (Data & Analytics, Data Modeling) acquired by ICERTIS.

This week is JPM’s annual Healthcare Conference in SF. If you’re in the area and interested in healthtech, you should try to attend some of the events surrounding JPM26 if you’re not able to go to the main conference. Don’t take a shot each time someone mentions ChatGPT Health please.

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More soon,

Team @ The Talent Foundry