Issue No. 31 —The Talent Foundry

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

Check out the latest roles below. This week we have some interesting roles in Data / Analytics in addition to the usual areas. In this edition:

• Who’s hiring: ~50 roles across Biz Ops & Strategy, Chief of Staff, Product, Marketing, Sales, GTM and Data Science

• Who’s raised: 15+ new raise announcements

• What we’re reading/watching: 5+ new insights to help you operate successfully in the startup world and find your next thing.

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Who’s hiring

New this week: 20 new startups including Abacum Inc, CivilGrid, Close, CreatorIQ, DOSS

Product

Technical Product Lead  at Kombo (Unified HR & ATS API, Series C, Berlin) – Own a product vertical end-to-end from first customers through $1M ARR like a founder

Staff Product Manager, Growth at Close (Sales CRM, Growth Stage, Remote) – Own pricing, packaging, billing, and placement to drive monetization growth

Senior Growth Product Manager at Ruby Labs (Consumer product studio, Remote) – Own funnel optimization and conversion across web for a portfolio company

Staff Product Manager (AI/ML) at Preply (Language tutoring marketplace, Series D, Remote) – Lead AI/ML product strategy across the learner and tutor experience

Senior Product Manager, CPX  at Front (Customer ops platform for B2B, Series D, SF) – Own customer experience product surface across the platform

Senior Product Manager, Product-Led Growth at Owner.com (AI-native restaurant software, Series C, SF) – Own the PLG funnel and product loops driving restaurant signups and activation

Binance Accelerator Program - Product Manager at Binance (Global crypto exchange, Series C, Taipei) – Drive analytics and strategy insights across the global product organization

Product Manager - UK at Harmattan AI (Autonomous defense systems, Series B, Remote) – Drive product strategy and roadmap for next-gen autonomous defense systems

Product Manager - Membership & Growth at Zopa (Digital challenger bank, Late Stage, London) – Own membership and growth product loops driving customer acquisition

Product Lead, Mobile at Canary Technologies Corp (Hotel software & AI, Series D, NYC) – Own mobile product strategy across hotelier and guest-facing experiences

Product Manager, Applications at DOSS (AI-native ops cloud, Series B, SF) – Build the application layer powering procurement, inventory, orders, and finance

Senior Agent Product Manager at Decagon (Conversational AI for CX, Series D, SF) – Own AI agent product roadmap for German-speaking enterprise customers

Lead Product Manager, Pricing Lifecycle at Orb (Revenue & billing platform, Series B, Remote) – Own the pricing lifecycle from packaging to evolution across customer accounts

Product Manager (Integrations) at Abacum Inc (Business planning for finance teams, Series B, Remote) – Own the integrations roadmap connecting Abacum to source-of-truth systems

Product Manager (Generalist) at Slash Financial (Vertical business banking, Series B, NYC) – Own product strategy across industry-specific banking, stablecoins, and AI workflows

GTM/Growth/Marketing

Strategic Head of Growth at SentiLink (Identity verification & fraud, Series B, Remote) – Lead and scale the full growth engine across acquisition, expansion, and revenue

Client Growth Manager - UK/Europe at Conveo.ai (AI consumer research platform, Seed, Remote) – Own client growth and expansion across UK and Europe enterprise accounts

Founding Marketer at Promise (Govtech for benefits & utilities, Series B, Remote) – Build the marketing function from zero to drive awareness and demand

Sr. Director - Growth at Glimpse (AI for CPG back-office, Series A, NYC) – Build and scale a repeatable, data-driven growth engine across acquisition

SEO Strategist/Growth SEO Lead at Retell AI (Voice AI for contact centers, Seed, SF) – Own SEO strategy and execution to drive top-of-funnel growth

Solution Operations Manager, Revenue Growth at Mistral AI (Open-source LLM platform, Series C, Paris) – Drive revenue operations and solutioning across enterprise sales

Staff Marketing Strategy and Operations Manager at Shield AI (Autonomous defense systems, Late Stage, SF) – Lead marketing strategy and ops across business development and growth

Growth - Youtube Manager at Higgsfield (GenAI video platform, Series A, SF) – Host and lead the YouTube channel, building organic growth and brand presence

Founding GTM Associate at Omnea (AI procurement platform, Series C, London) – Build the GTM motion from the ground up across pipeline and account expansion

Product Marketing Manager - Finance Products at Abacum Inc (Business planning for finance teams, Series B, Remote) – Own product marketing for finance products from positioning to launch

Director of Sales  at LiveFlow (AI ERP & FP&A platform, Series A, NYC) – Own sales team execution across pipeline, deals, and rep performance

Senior Product Marketing Manager at Clutch (Credit union software, Series B, Remote) – Own product launches, sales enablement, and content with AI-augmented workflows

Strategy & Operations Manager at Strella (AI customer research for PE, Series A, Remote) – Own 2-4 high-priority strategic initiatives across diligence and value creation

Founding Marketing Lead at Vega (AI claims platform for insurance, Series D, Remote) – Own external presence end-to-end across brand, content, and demand generation

Biz Ops & Strategy

Strategy & Operations Manager, Employer at Turquoise (Healthcare price transparency, Series C, Remote) – Drive corporate strategy and cross-functional execution for the Employer business unit

Business Operations & Strategy Manager at Front (Customer ops platform for B2B, Series D, SF) – Run cross-functional business ops and partner with leadership on strategic priorities

Senior Brand Strategy Manager at Spreetail (Ecommerce brand acceleration, Late Stage, Remote) – Lead brand strategy and creative direction across portfolio brands

Manager, CX AI Strategy at Strava (Athletic tracking app, Late Stage, Remote) – Drive CX strategy with AI to scale support across athletes and operators

AI Transformation Lead at Abacum Inc (Business planning for finance teams, Series B, Remote) – Lead the AI transformation across internal workflows and product surfaces

VP / Director of Finance at NODA AI (Unmanned systems autonomy, Series A, Austin) – Build the finance function from scratch as the first finance leader hire

Strategy & Business Operations Lead  at Picogrid (Defense tech infrastructure, Series A, LA) – Build the internal machinery enabling the company to scale through growth

Finance and Business Operations Manager at OpenRouter (AI routing infrastructure, Series A, Remote) – Drive strategic finance and business ops across planning and exec decision-making

Insights & Strategy Lead at Propel (Govtech for low-income Americans, Series B, Remote) – Own insights and strategy for the Marketplace driving partner and revenue growth

VP of Asset Strategy (Commercial Real Estate) at Playbook (CRE amenities & wellness, Seed, Remote) – Lead asset strategy across Class A CRE owners on amenity design and activation

Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff, Care Transformation & Customer Enablement at Ambience Healthcare (AI clinical documentation, Series C, Remote) – Partner with leadership on care transformation initiatives across health system customers

Chief of Staff, New Verticals at Atticus (Consumer legal aid platform, Series C, Remote) – Partner with leadership to launch and scale new vertical lines of business

Chief of Staff at QuantWare (Quantum processor hardware, Series B, Delft) – Run the leadership operating cadence and translate CEO intent into execution

Data & Analytics

Senior Analyst, GTM Intelligence at brightwheel (Early education software, Series C, Remote) – Build GTM intelligence across customer segmentation, market sizing, and analytics

Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy Analyst at SentiLink (Identity verification & fraud, Series B, Remote) – Drive GTM strategy with deep analytics across pipeline and customer segmentation

Senior Data Scientist - Paid Marketing Optimization at Preply (Language tutoring marketplace, Series D, Remote) – Build and scale data science models powering paid marketing optimization

Utility Research Operations Manager at CivilGrid (Construction tech mapping, Series A, Remote) – Build and run utility research operations across data sourcing and validation

Lead, GTM Analytics & Applied AI at Owner.com (AI-native restaurant software, Series C, Remote) – Lead GTM analytics and applied AI across sales, marketing, and CS systems

Senior GTM Operations Analyst  - Salesforce Administrator at CreatorIQ (Creator marketing platform, Late Stage, LA) – Own Salesforce admin and GTM ops analytics across revenue systems

Companies That Raised This Week

Pre-Seed

$5.5m for Davis from Paris, France (AI / Real Estate) with funding from Heartcore Capital and Balderton

£2.1m for Asterix Health from London, UK (Health, Healthcare) with funding from Basis Capital, Entrepreneur First and 3 more.

Seed

$100m for RadixArk from San Francisco, CA (AI / Infrastructure) with funding from Accel

$25m for Lithosquare from Paris, France (AI / Mineral Exploration) with funding from World Fund and Kindred Capital

EarSwitch from Manchester, UK (Healthcare, Manufacturing) with funding from South East Angels.

$3m for Navidence from Aurora, US (Product Research, Research) with funding from Nina Capital, Grand Ventures and 2 more

$16m for General Proximity from San Francisco, US (Biotech, Biotech R&D) with funding from Age1, Modi Ventures and 4 more

$6m for Rosarium Health from Houston, US (Aging In Place, Health) with funding from Black Tech Nation Ventures - BTN, American Family Insurance Institute and 5 more

$9.5m for Village Health from Los Angeles, US (Healthcare, Pediatric Care) with funding from Bling Capital, GTM fund and 2 more

$16m for Noho Labs from San Francisco, US (Health, Healthcare) with funding from Verified Capital, 8VC

Series A

$200m for Blitzy from Cambridge, MA (AI / Software Development) with funding from Northzone

$62m for eleQtron from Hannover, Germany (Quantum Computing) with funding from Schwarz Digits

$18m for SCOUT Space Inc. from Alexandria, US (Aerospace, Data & Analytics) with funding from Washington Harbour Partners, Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation and 3 more

$14m for Dandelion Health from New York City, US (AI, Healthcare) with funding from Healthier Capital, Colle Capital and 3 more

Series B

$178m for QuantWare from Delft, Netherlands (Quantum Computing) with funding from Intel Capital

$160m for OWL from New York, US (CRM, Mobile) with funding from Oliver Jung and TCV

Series C

$160m for Quantum Motion from London, UK (Quantum Computing) with funding from DCVC and Kembara

Series D

$220m for CellCentric from Cambridge, UK (Biotech / Oncology) with funding from Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners

FUNDiT from Tokyo, Japan (Business Development, Business Information Systems) with funding from Mizuho Bank and TASUKI VENTURES

Series E

$950m for Sierra from San Francisco, CA (AI / Customer Experience) with funding from Tiger Global and GV

$300m for Astranis from San Francisco, CA (Space / Satellites) with funding from Snowpoint Ventures and Franklin Templeton

Growth/PE/Acquisition

$250m for Anagram Therapeutics from United States (Biotech / Enzyme Therapy) with funding from Blackstone Life Sciences

Community Link Consulting from Otis Orchards-East Farms, US (Business Consulting, Consulting) acquired by VMG Health.

Avarion from Dunmore, US (Advisory, Consulting) acquired by Med Tech Solutions.

LocumsCollective from Salt Lake City, US (Compliance Support, Healthcare) acquired by Barton Associates.

HudsonLake from Alexandria, US (Consulting, Corporate Communications) acquired by MikeWorldWide.

Keystone Bioanalytical from Philadelphia, US (Biotech, CRO) acquired by SGS.

Knack RCM from Woodbridge, US (Health, Healthcare) acquired by The Carlyle Group.

Canopii Collaborative from Philadelphia, US (Consulting, Healthcare) acquired by Impact Advisors.

Coastal Administrative Services from Bellingham, US (Benefits Administration, Claims Management) acquired by Point C.

What We’re Reading/Watching

• Self-Evolution in Intelligent Agents

• The Ultimate Solopreneur Agent Harness for AI Builders (Claude Code Harness)

• Discovery is the work AI gives back

• From Doer to Director: The AI Mindset Shift

• The next biggest moat in AI

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Team @ The Talent Foundry