Six companies. Thirty-three open roles across five of them — and a sixth that hasn't posted a single one. Meet them at the showcase before anyone else does.

Matthew Parkhurst and Shreyas Iyer are building autonomous systems for production engineering — infrastructure that learns how your team actually operates, then handles the maintenance work nobody wants to own. Fewer incidents. Less manual toil. Engineers who get to build instead of babysit. It's the unglamorous layer underneath every company shipping AI right now, and almost nobody is attacking it this directly. $24.3M raised, with Nat Friedman, Naval, and Kleiner Perkins on the cap table. New York.

Hiring: 9 roles in NYC — six of them paying $200K–$400K. Details here.

Katon Luaces and Jeremy Ben-Meir are two engineers who spent three years on the thing every lawyer complains about and nobody fixed: the timesheet. PointOne is AI that does a law firm's billing for them — capturing billable time automatically, reviewing bills, and catching the data problems that turn into write-offs before they ever hit an invoice. Customers range from boutique practices to some of the largest firms in the world. 10x revenue growth in six months. $16M Series A, with Bessemer, General Catalyst, and Y Combinator along for the ride.

Hiring: 13 roles — engineering, forward-deployed engineering, and go-to-market. All NYC. All in person. Details here.

Matt Biringer is building the FinOps layer for teams whose cloud bill got away from them. North.Cloud runs across AWS, GCP, and Azure — automating commitments, replacing manual tagging, catching spend anomalies before they land on the invoice, and pushing it all into Slack and Jira where engineers already live. Cloud spend is the second-biggest line item at most software companies and the one almost nobody has real visibility into. North is fixing that. $5M Series A.

Hiring: 7 roles across engineering and go-to-market. Details here.

Nicole and Chris Hedley run the company most engineering leaders don't believe until they see the delivery date. Claude writes 90–97% of Headstart's client code, which is how an enterprise project a CTO scoped at four to eight months ships in two weeks. Nicole's own framing: the AI does the implementation, so the humans spend their time on architecture and problem solving. This is what everyone else is still writing thought-leadership posts about — Headstart has been billing for it. Bootstrapped. Profitable. No board to answer to.

Hiring: 3 roles, $225K–$265K. Details here.

Rylan Talerico and Nischay Venkatram are second-time founders with a résumé that's hard to argue with: between them, they've sold an AI startup, built the core ad infrastructure at LinkedIn, led product and growth for BuzzFeed Quizzes, and deployed AI agents inside F500s. Thunder is AI agents for growth marketing — running Google and LinkedIn ads end to end, on an outcome-based model, for customers from Series A companies to enterprises. Backed by early leaders at OpenAI and HubSpot.

Hiring: founding growth lead. Employee #1. If you've ever wanted to own paid growth without a layer of management between you and the outcome, this is the one. Details here.

Michael Ioffe — Forbes 30 Under 30 — built training that arrives as a text message. No LMS, no login, no course nobody finishes. A text. It's the rare enterprise product people actually open, and it's why Arist has been quietly embedded in large organizations while the rest of L&D talks about engagement. $16M raised.

Hiring: nothing posted publicly. Not because they aren't hiring — because they aren't advertising. Michael will be in the room. That conversation happens in person or it doesn't happen at all.

Most people leave a showcase with six surface level convos and nothing else. The ones who leave with an interview did a handful of things on purpose. Here's what they were.

Six founders, one open floor, maybe ninety minutes. Trying to meet all six gets you six versions of the same surface conversation. Read the blurbs above, choose the two companies you'd actually want to work at, and spend your night there. Depth beats coverage every time — one founder who remembers your name is worth five who don't.

Nothing else to say here. Tell us who you want to meet and what you're good at. We take it to the founder directly. Not a form. Not a careers page. A message from us to a founder who was in the room with you, saying this one is worth twenty minutes of your time.

FYI this closes 1 hour post-event. Intros are sent to founders the NEXT DAY.

It's in this email. It's on their careers page. Asking it tells a founder you did zero prep and burns the first thirty seconds of a two-minute window. Ask the thing only they can answer: what broke last month, what they're least certain about, which hire has been hardest to make and why. Founders answer those questions honestly, and the answer is usually a map of where you'd fit.

Founders name their bottleneck on stage without meaning to. When someone says the hard part is getting law firms to trust the output, or that they're shipping faster than their infrastructure can absorb — that is the job. Walk up afterward with a view on that specific problem and you stop being a candidate and start being someone who gets it.

"I've been an engineer for six years" is forgettable. "I think the reason this keeps breaking is X" is a conversation. Your background comes up in minute two, once they want it — and they'll want it faster if you gave them something to react to first.

Roughly a hundred people get into these rooms, and the bar for attendees is the same one we hold founders to. The person you're waiting in line with is a future co-founder, a future hiring manager, or the reason you hear about a role a year from now. The stage is not the only reason to be there.

Not "great meeting you." One sentence referencing the actual thing you talked about, one sentence on why you're useful for it, and a clear ask. Founders take a lot of these after an event. The specific ones get answered; the generic ones get archived.

These rooms work because they're small. Ninety minutes, six founders, no application form standing between you and the person who makes the decision. That's a serious amount of leverage for one evening — but only if you spend it deliberately.

Monday, August 24. RSVP. See you there.