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🤝 Asks & intros
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Startup Job Search
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fX3nR8v) is a Cambridge maths & CS grad with 6 years of product at a fast-growing fintech unicorn, most recently as senior PM on products doing €100M+ a year. Looking for product lead or growth lead roles at seed to Series A, ideally AI-native consumer, in Paris, London or fully remote. If you want an intro, click here & we'll set it up."Anonymous" (
wC4pL7s) spent 7 years in robotics R&D at a global industrial giant after MIT mechanical engineering, & is now leaving corporate for an early-stage startup applying AI to hardware. Looking for founding engineer, technical PM, or growth roles at hardware startups in Dubai, Lisbon, or fully remote. If you want an intro, click here & we'll set it up.
Intros & growth
Eito (CEO & Co-Founder @ Edison Watch; poker, Catan & Avalon player) is looking for intros to anyone building enterprise agents (Hermes, OpenClaw & the like) who wants a faster time-to-market by clearing the end customer's IT, security & compliance checks
Cameron (Founder @ Nominal, who raised $155M, backed by Sequoia & Founders Fund) is looking to speak with founders, CTOs or tech leads at aerospace, defence, auto or any advanced-manufacturing company, 15 minutes on how you test & validate hardware today. If that's you, click here & we'll set it up.
Hiring
Victor (Founder @ manifest.market; Half-Life player) is hiring a Founding GTM lead, remote, $110,000 + equity, to own how people discover the prediction market, why they sign up, & what brings them back. First growth hire, reports straight to the founders, sets the 0-to-1 strategy & runs it. Apply here.
"Anonymous" (hT6vK2q) is a high growth startup in the network hiring an AI Engineer, fullstack + AI welcome. Salary range £80k to £200k based on seniority. If that's you, answer this email & we'll match you.
Investor Asks
Rishabh (Investor @ Hoxton Ventures; poker & chess player) is looking for pre-seed & seed startups to back, sector agnostic, $1M+ cheques, & they like to lead. He's been at three TechGames tables this year, so he already knows how we play.
Fundraising
Cap (Superteam; Skyrim player) is looking for intros to VCs & angels for the founders Superteam supports at pre-seed (100kto100k to 100kto2m) & seed (2mto2m to 2mto8m). Superteam is a co-operative of regional non-profit accelerators across 20+ countries, backing founders & talent at the frontier of tech.
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🥳 Wins & Celebrations
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1. Hugo & Antoine (Co-Founders @ Arlequin AI) on a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine & OTB Ventures, with Bpifrance's Defence Innovation Fund in the round. Topological neural networks out of Paris, the kind of maths most people skip & they raised on it. 🧠 Receipt
2. Theo & Chris (Co-Founders @ CloudNC) on a $20M round from Nimble Ventures, with Lockheed Martin's LM Ventures participating. AI for CNC machining out of London, which is to say the part of hardware nobody wants to touch. 🔩 Receipt
3. Paul & Kavi (Co-Founders @ Medly AI) on an $8M seed led by Felix Capital, with Eka & Ada. An AI tutor for exam prep out of London, & they got it done in the quietest month of the year. 📚 Receipt
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👾 Incoming TechGames
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Oct 8 | 🃏 TechPoker London by MongoDB & Deel - our London poker tournament is back, hosted by Remy, Maja & Precilia. Doors at 18:30. Join the game
Oct 10 | 🃏 TechPoker Shenzhen by Powerhouse Engineering - a cash game night in Shenzhen, hosted by Lukas. Doors at 19:00. Join the game
Oct 13 | 🃏 TechPoker Dubai - a cash game night with Founders Dubai. Doors at 18:30. Join the game
Nov 4 | 👾 TechGames in Azeroth · Online - a week on the TechGames Discord playing WoW Forever with fellow founders, operators & investors, hosted with Rami. Launch night at 11pm London / 3pm Pacific, then game time through Sun 8 Nov. Request a seat
🎭 Behind the Scenes - The best Tech Games on TechGames
We're going hard on the platform, & we've been testing out some things.
We got games running in Dubai, Shenzhen, & Shanghai. We're deploying a new platform & moving from techgames.xyz to jointechgames.com. If you want to be involved in running a game, check it out.
We're going to test a series of online games on Sundays On the other side, many of you are in different countries. All really smart, extremely strong gamers, well-established founders & investors with serious credentials. You need to meet each other. That's what we're trying to do with the TechGames Discord.
We're testing something now: TechGames in Azeroth, in WoW Many of the best founders are big WoW players. As a matter of fact, my first business was an e-book business when I was 13 that generated $3-4k MRR. I was among the top 0.1% of PvP players at the time, & the game taught me a lot of things. Playing alone is low ROI. Playing with other insane builders is insane ROI: fun, recharging, & real quality bonding time with future startup teammates.
I just posted about it on LinkedIn (and if you’re more on X, here is the announcement link). If you've got 10 seconds, react & drop some love in the comments so more of the right people find us. 🙏🙏
Horde or Alliance? Both play, but there's a vote. Hit reply & tell me. 👾
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