The August showcase is in the books. Six founders took the stage on Monday, August 24 at Company Ventures to pitch what they're building and exactly who they need next.

Between them: 33 open roles, one Employee #1 seat, and one company that came with zero job postings and still left with candidates. Here's who presented, and yes, they're all still hiring:

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.

Getting in the room is step one. What you do in the 72 hours after is what actually turns into an interview. Three things, in order:

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Don't let that happen in September.

Every founder from August is linked above. Send a connection request with a note that references the actual thing you talked about, one sentence on why you're useful for it, and a clear ask. Not "great meeting you." Founders take a lot of these after a showcase, and the specific ones get answered. The founder who didn't post a single role is the one most worth messaging.

The people who get hired out of these rooms are almost never first-timers. They're the ones who showed up in July, followed up, came back in August with a sharper pitch, and got recognized. Applications for September open with the founder reveal. Apply here.

We have so many events coming up in September. See you there.