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3,244 articlesFirecrawl’s Profitable Startup Lands $14.5M Series A, Doubling ARR
Firecrawl secured a $14.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, with Y Combinator, Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke and Zapier joining. The profitable web‑data startup now serves 350k users, offers SOC 2 compliance, and faces EU AI Act transparency rules starting Aug 2 2026.
Gauge Offers $300K Base Despite Just Five Employees
Gauge, a Y Combinator Summer 2024 startup, offers three founding roles—engineer, sales, and customer strategy—to build its AI agent optimization platform. The article details compensation, hiring funnel, AI screening trends, and candidate preparation strategies.
Working at Stainless: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
An analysis of a New York API company called Stainless, examining its compensation structure, hiring practices, alleged values, and the lack of public documentation on its internal processes and culture.
Careers at Stainless: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
The article details Stainless's hiring architecture before its acquisition by Anthropic, covering roles, salary bands, multi-stage interview process, New York hybrid workspace, and traits predicting long-term fit, serving as a reference for what Anthropic's SDK team may now seek.
MyOme Posts Nine Roles After $200B Savings Forecast
MyOme posted nine roles in two weeks after Illumina, Natera, Ms.Medicine and Thatch deals scaled its genome‑first platform. The hiring surge seeks hybrid bioinformatics‑clinical talent to expand testing and trials.
Working at Passage Labs: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
An analysis of Passage Labs' six public job postings reveals insights into its distributed team, functional hires, and implicit operating model, highlighting what candidates can infer about culture and expectations.
85% Productivity Jump Linked to LearnLux’s AI‑CFP Financial Coaching
LearnLux combines certified financial planners with generative AI to deliver personalized financial coaching via payroll integration, improving productivity, retention, and financial wellbeing for multinational employees.
Mercury Lists 58 Open Roles Amid Industry-Wide Fintech Layoffs
Mercury is expanding with 58 open roles and $500M revenue, contrasting with mass layoffs at PayPal, Coinbase, and others, as it seeks senior fintech talent.
Working at Lassie: Culture, Pace and Who Thrives
The article examines Lassie's hiring pattern on Zero G Talent, revealing its early-stage structure, values, hiring bar, and cultural traits that determine who thrives or burns out in a fast-paced, founder-led environment.
Careers at Lassie: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
As of September 2026, Lassie.ai has 16 open roles in San Francisco, mostly junior engineering positions for its autonomous dental‑office software agents, with compensation $205K–$298K and a fast‑paced interview loop.
350,000 Tech Workers Need Replacement Yearly Through 2034
Stream Security added five new openings, bringing total open roles to seven across Amsterdam, Boulder, and Skopje. The hiring surge reflects tighter talent screens in frontier-tech firms, with a focus on senior, hybrid positions requiring clearance, AI-native skills, and proven capability.
CIA seeks 42 cleared engineers amid national‑security talent crunch
The CIA posted 42 technical and analytical positions across its directorates, signaling a deliberate rebuild amid a tight cleared‑talent market that demands hybrid skills and active polygraph clearance.
$20.68M Space Force OTA funds LeoLabs' Scout-S with Delta AI
LeoLabs unveiled Delta, an AI-driven space domain awareness platform, on April 8 2026 to deliver real‑time conjunction assessment and persistent custody of maneuverable LEO objects, replacing LeoGuard and powering new US Space Force contracts.
Market Narrative Claims Rain Aero, Yet Data Shows Fintech Hiring for 49 Roles
Analysis of Rain's job listings shows it is a fintech blockchain payments firm, not an autonomous firefighting startup, and explores Rain Aero's aerospace autonomy products and hiring criteria.
Paris startup Ooak Data pays $2M for companies’ Slack, Jira data
Ooak Data, a YC S26 startup, sells anonymized enterprise workflow data as reinforcement learning environments to frontier AI labs, paying companies for access to their operational guts.
Boom’s Median Salary $121K Trails Stripe’s $237K by 49%
Boom, a rental‑finance startup, has 9 open roles, mostly engineering, with a cooling hiring trend and median salary around $121k. The article breaks down the roles, required skills, screening process, and application advice.
Careers at Hedge: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Hedge, a 2026-founded wholesale insurance brokerage with roughly two employees, is hiring six founding-level sales roles (five in-office San Francisco, one remote) with base salaries $125k–$250k, emphasizing in-office culture, no equity details, interview as a business audition, and the office as pr
Tsenta’s MRR jumps 13X to $205K in nine weeks, YC data shows
Tsenta, founded by two Rose-Hulman students and backed by Y Combinator, grew its monthly recurring revenue from $15K to $205K in just nine weeks, reaching a $2.5M annualized run rate. The AI-powered platform automates job applications by tailoring resumes per role, integrates with 19 ATS systems, an
Kinro claims first autonomously sold insurance policy
Kinro, a Y Combinator seed-stage startup, seeks founding software and AI engineers to develop an autonomous insurance brokerage that uses AI agents to qualify, quote, and bind small-business policies.
Careers at Ellipsis Health: Teams, Pay and How to Get Hired
Ellipsis Health is an AI healthcare company hiring engineers, sales leaders, and data scientists. This guide covers who gets hired, which teams they join, compensation bands, the interview process, and workplace culture.
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