Skip LinkedIn. Resources to find breakout startups hiring before everyone else:
• Ramp’s monthly vendor reports
• Harmonic’s quarterly Hot 25
• a16z Build newsletter
• Founders You Should Know
• Next Play newsletter
• YC startup directory
• Early Days Substack
Startup discovery platform @harmonic_ai rebuilt Scout, their AI platform using Deep Agents and LangSmith.
Deep Agents: One frontier model + two tool sets (global company data and firm-specific context). Long-horizon execution and context window management handled out of the box.
LangSmith: Deployment and scaling, full conversation traces for debugging, and Engine to automatically surface failure patterns + suggest fixes.
Technology has made it easier than ever to build a company. A team of two or three people can create a $10M+ business. That's one of the most exciting things happening in the world right now.
But it also creates noise. A lot of it. And somewhere in that noise is the next Airbnb, Stripe, or OpenAI, waiting to be found by the investor who would've funded it.
Harmonic fixes that. We're building the startup database, the one with the quality and depth that when anyone thinks of startups, they think of us.
Scout, our AI agent, helps investors and companies navigate and evaluate opportunities at a scale that wasn't possible before. 9 of the 10 largest VC firms, Anthropic, OpenAI, Ramp, Notion and the teams shaping where technology goes next already use our products.
And we're a team of just 55 - and only 19 engineers!
That means your work shows up in the product, used daily by some of the most influential teams in tech. You're joining a company with a thriving business and the stability to back it up, focused on one goal: becoming the name everyone reaches for when they need to understand the startup world. That's the opportunity on the table.
We support each other and still make time for puppy yoga, team trivia, monthly dinners, and breakfast burritos every Friday.
Our engineering team is growing. Check below or DM me if interested in any of the following:
🏠 Senior Full Stack Engineers
📱 Staff iOS Engineer
🔎 Staff Software Engineer (LLM / Search)
🏗️ Staff Frontend Engineer (Performance and Infra)
Interested in joining us in Flatiron? My DM's are open and our careers site is below.
Three things I’m underwriting hardest in 2026:
-AI applied to industrial throughput.
-autonomous defense + space robotics
-clinical-stage biotech where AI compresses trial timelines. Everything else feels crowded
Darri, @harmonic_ai 's Head of Growth, recently did an interview at Slush in Helsinki. Listen to what we are seeing the startup ecosystem and how Harmonic is helping VC's find the next unicorn:
https://t.co/HBsB87Z6Of
Scout 2.0 is live. Most of our users made it their daily driver before we even finished building it.
An analyst that doesn't sleep, knows every startup, every founder, every round, your entire network, and soon everything your firm knows too 👀
#iOS engineers - I am hiring the first Staff iOS engineer for https://t.co/KsBFTnrJM4
Come bring Scout (seen below) to mobile :- DM's are open! #hiring#ai
Interesting read.
It took me a decade to realize experience unlocks opportunity vs sticking with an existing path. The confidence to start from scratch is key.
Ai unlocks freedom to experiment, both within your career and creation, in ways we’re just tapping into.
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