Some of the fastest-growing startups in NYC are taking the stage this month. Every one of them is hiring. Come meet them in person.

George Kurdin and Joe Zhou built Monk to fix the messiest, most-ignored corner of finance: actually getting paid. Accounts receivable still runs mostly on email and manual follow-ups, with trillions of dollars trapped in unpaid invoices. Monk is an AI-native AR platform that automates the full contract-to-cash lifecycle — invoicing, collections, cash application, disputes — wrapping every model call in deterministic code so a small team can move real money without errors.

It's already managing $1B+ in receivables for AI-native customers like ElevenLabs and Profound. Kurdin previously worked at D.E. Shaw, Minecraft, and Streamlabs; Zhou is an engineer out of Google and Snap. $29M raised, including a $25M Series A co-led by Footwork and Acrew Capital.

Hiring: applied AI engineer, full-stack engineer, account executive, BDR. Details here.

Estelle Palandjian started CAKE around a simple problem: acquiring customers on digital ad platforms is expensive and broken, and consumer attention is more fragmented than ever. CAKE is a private shopping membership community for aspirational shoppers and the brands that want to reach them — multibrand retail in a fresh format, with Amex black-card-level rewards. For brands, it's a new channel to acquire high-value shoppers; for members, it's a cross-brand perks program that includes thousands of dollars to spend on current collections across top DTC and multibrand retailers.

$6M raised, backed by Boston Seed Capital, Impellent Ventures, Launchpad Venture Group, XFactor (Flybridge), Hub Angels, and angels including Wayne Chang, Cory Moelis, and Ben Fischman.

Hiring: Director of Integrated Marketing. Reach out if you’re interested in CMO and/or COO roles. Details here.

Maggie Tang spent years working through nearly every restaurant role and co-founded the restaurant media platform Gourmand before building Magic, which powers personalization in the real world. Its first product, Loyalist, is an agentic CRM and experience platform powering thousands of hospitality brands — including Carbone, Torrisi, Eleven Madison Park, and TAO Hospitality Group — unifying guest data into a single profile so operators can treat everyone like a regular. $10M raised, backed by Ben Lerer at Lerer Hippeau, Bling Capital, Floodgate, Major Food Group, and operators from hospitality and tech.

Hiring: founding sales, founding designer, founding marketing lead, senior software engineer (infra), senior software engineer. Details here.

Alex Atallah co-founded OpenSea and was its CTO through the NFT boom; in 2023 he left to build OpenRouter with Louis Vichy. OpenRouter is the unified API gateway for AI, giving developers instant access to 300+ models from every major provider through a single integration. By routing requests intelligently across providers, it helps teams ship faster, optimize costs, and stay model-agnostic as the landscape shifts — and it's now one of the most-used pieces of infrastructure in the AI stack, with millions of developers and trillions of tokens flowing through it weekly.

$113M raised, backed by a16z, Menlo Ventures, and CapitalG.

Hiring: multiple roles — see details here.

Natan Wise and Rocky Seftel founded Conduit Health to be the access company for healthcare at home. It's an AI-powered, vertically integrated platform that turns a doctor's order into a delivered, insurance-covered benefit — uniting telehealth, prescriptions, insurance authorization, and fulfillment into one system so patients on Medicare and Medicaid actually get the services they're entitled to. At the core is CareOS, its proprietary AI engine for navigating payer rules.

The company has grown roughly 6x in the past year, shipped 100,000+ orders in the first five months of 2026, served 50,000+ patients, and is now contracted with five of the six largest managed Medicaid plans in the country. $22M+ raised to date, including a Series A led by Drive Capital.

Hiring: product engineer, AI product manager. Details here.

Tanya Saigol — ex-HelloFresh and J.P. Morgan, with a Harvard MBA — founded Jetson with Dan Sipple in 2023. Jetson is an AI-powered software platform that helps manufacturing plants reduce labor spend and improve throughput by right-sizing staffing levels and overtime against actual production needs. Instead of plant managers juggling overtime, temp agencies, and spreadsheets, Jetson reads real demand and adjusts the labor plan in real time. ~$3M seed raised and roughly $2M in revenue, backed by Inspired Capital.

Hiring: enterprise account executive, BDR, head of engineering, software engineer, forward deployed engineer, and a contract talent sourcer. Details here.

A few hundred people have applied, the founder is exhausted by the process, and the search has quietly drifted toward whoever looks safest on paper. The hires that actually change a company tend to happen earlier and quieter - a warm intro, a conversation at the right dinner, someone a founder met once and never forgot.

That's the whole reason we do this in a room instead of a feed. The five companies in this issue are all hiring, fast. But the version of that hiring you want isn't the careers page. It's the ten minutes after a pitch where you walk up, say the sharp thing, and the founder remembers your name.

Come June 23. Be in the room. The rest tends to follow.