SHACK15 Ventures

Investing in DeepTech and AI startups at the earliest stages: angel, pre-seed, and seed.

Angel Investor

Founders Bay

Founders Bay is a leading venture studio for AI startups in the Bay Area, connecting 20,000 founders and VCs with events, community & valuable resources. We provide comprehensive support to help you launch your startup, from fundraising support to building your MVP with our expert team of engineers. Book a Free Consultation: https://calendly.com/marianebekker/foundersbay

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Managing Partner

Women Founders Bay is a non-profit organization on a mission to empower women founders in tech to grow their startup.

We run one of the most active communities of tech female founders and investors in the Bay Area. We have over 400 startups all female-led in AI/ML, Sports Tech, Healthtech, Fintech, Edtech and Climate Tech. Apply to join our community today -> www.womenfoundersbay.com/apply

Founder & President

Upward Recruiting

Talent platform for early-stage startups to connect them with women Software Engineers, Product Designers and Product Managers from underrepresented background. We've made placements at leading startups in Silicon Valley and New York

Founder & CEO

Powering the world’s fitness and wellness businesses and connecting them with more consumers, more effectively, than anyone else.

Mindbody

Leading the Mindbody Marketing Products Group, offering a suite of marketing and Demand Gen tools for the broader Mindbody product suite.

Scaled the engineering team from 7 engineers to 40+ in SF, NYC and Pune. Built recruiting strategies and pipelines, hiring processes, and served as an attractor for top talent from many diverse backgrounds. Owned development and execution of product and technology roadmaps for the entire product suite.

Director Of Engineering, Marketing Products

Mariane Bekker

Justin Knight

Erick Andrade

Dyneti is building the future of authentication, starting with making frictionless, fraud-free payments available on every mobile device. Our first product is an SDK that helps apps stop fraud and boost conversion by taking a photo of a credit card. The SDK is powered by a deep learning model optimized to run entirely on device. If you’re interested in being a critical part of one of the first startups working in the deep learning on mobile space, we’d love to talk to you! Dyneti supports enterprise customers globally and has raised $2.2 Million from global institutional funds such as Shasta Ventures, Y Combinator, and Sound Ventures, as well as from prominent angel investors. TechCrunch: techcrunch.com/2019/03/19/best-of-y-combinator

Dyneti (YC W19)

DyScan is the market-leading credit card scanner that works on all credit cards. With our fast and easy integration, businesses can boost payment conversion by over 5%, and reduce fraud by over 50% with only an hour of engineering work. DyScan is available as a mobile SDK as well as a web API.

We're looking for a Software Engineer (Full-Stack) to join Dyneti as part of the founding engineering team. You will work directly with the CEO to design and build new features, roll out new products, and increase customer yield and retention. You will be expected to ship fast, iterate rapidly, and identify ongoing opportunities to deliver value to customers.

Software Engineer (Full-Stack / Mobile)

We're unfortunately not able to sponsor visas at this time!

Some of us are based in San Mateo but we're a fully remote company

Hadi Honarvar Nazari

Yuwen Wu

Machine Learning is the biggest gold rush of the 21st century. Companies are leveraging Machine Learning in all kinds of use-cases from driving cars, developing vaccines, and detecting cancer. Yet, deploying Machine Learning is a time-intensive and technical process, creating a high barrier of entry for most companies.Banana makes deploying Machine Learning as simple as an API. Similar to what Stripe did for the payments world, Banana is doing for Machine Learning. ML is becoming a necessary part of any business. We’re seeing this first-hand as we're experiencing explosive growth and we’d love for you to join us!

Co-Founder

Banana

We're looking for a Machine Learning Engineer (infra hacker) who has scaled ML systems to 1M + users, is willing to go deep in the weeds on r&d, cares a ton about how backend systems work, has worked on large systems but executes like a startup, fast, ships and iterates. 

Machine Learning Infra Engineer

If candidate needs Visa assistance, we are more than happy to start them remotely and sponsor the visa process 🇺🇸 

Our goal would be for the candidate to join us in-person in San Francisco, due to the higher bandwidth communication it allows. We’re working on hard problems, and the communal feeling of being together will help push us through. Willing to discuss some kind of hybrid arrangement if needed.

Stephen P.

Viktar Donich

Partnered with Andreessen Horowitz and Variant Fund - Sound helps artists capture more value from their music and help fans directly support the artists they love. Sound builds connections between artists and fans by enabling fans to buy song NFTs which allow them to become part of an interactive community.

The one metric that matters at Sound is how many artists make a full-time living off their music alone. Tees, tours, and fan clubs can offer incremental revenue for artists, but shouldn’t come at the expense of creating art. We’ll constantly listen, learn, and make adjustments as we work towards building a totally different kind of music industry that puts artists and listeners first.

Our vision for the future is ambitious: we want to honor the value of music by giving a million artists the opportunity to live off their art.

Sound

Sound.xyz is a suite of web3-native music and economic tools powering the next generation of artists and their communities, starting with listening parties for new releases. Sound Artists can publish songs, sell NFTs, use splits, and participate in governance within a tightly integrated suite of tools.

Sound is hiring a Staff Frontend Engineer to help shape the future of a new music economy that values artists and their music while connecting fans more closely to the music they love.

As Staff Frontend Engineer, you will lead technical direction for our engineering team while contributing as an individual contributor to our code base. You will help build and maintain our user-facing suite of tools. This includes our core song and artist pages for listening parties, artist tools, community management tools, governance and membership tools to empower the next wave of artists and their communities. You will be involved in product decisions and have a direct impact on the end user experience.

Staff Software Engineer, Frontend

We're willing to sponsor visa for exceptional candidates

We're a pretty international team, but preference for the US timezones

Jeremy Welborn

Suchismita Padhy

Mana is a research lab building an artificially intelligent investor. We sell contracts to financial firms, private equity and wealth management firms, as well as VCs. We help any firm looking to optimize their workflows with AI. We are semi in stealth, but typically have very large contracts right.As we build, we are paving a path to what we hope will lead to a future with AI/automated investing.

Co-Founder & CEO

Mana

You will build the machine learning systems that power our general artificial intelligence for capital allocation.

We are looking for researchers who want to discover elegant deep learning concepts and then put them into production as solutions to high-stakes, real-world problems.

co-founder & CEO

Machine Learning Engineer

Visa sponsorship available (limited to exceptional candidates)

Visa sponsorship available to exceptional candidates that don't have work rights in the US

David K.

Everyone hates surveys. They’re tedious to fill out and give shallow data. That’s because they’re only a proxy for the real thing: *conversations*. Through a conversation, you can ask follow-up questions and get deep insights in a way that’s fun for the interviewee. Except you can’t have 1:1 conversations with everyone…

Merlin has built an AI interviewer that can ask follow-up questions, like a conversation, but at the scale and ease of use of a survey.

We are growing fast and funded by **Sequoia** + **AI Grant**!

There’s been $30B+ of market cap created from bringing surveys online. Our partner at Sequoia, <a href="https://www.sequoiacap.com/people/bryan-schreier/" target="_blank">**Bryan Schreier**</a>, was the first investor in Qualtrics – the $12B survey company.

Co-founder

Merlin

We're looking for a Founding Engineer to join our team to talk to users and build product

Founding Engineer

We're happy to help with visa sponsorship for the right candidate.

Millions of businesses list cost as the #1 reason for not using SMS despite the demand from their customers — and even if they bite the bullet, most small businesses are left with software that is expensive and functions like it was born in the 90s. Textla is changing that. 

We’re revolutionizing the communication space, giving the people the power of CpaaS APIs at no mark-up all while providing smart insights to help drive impactful outreach, everytime. The end result? SMBs save 400% on average and hours per day using Textla - resulting in a democratized space for all 🚀

Textla

A talented experienced Frontend or Full Stack engineer to join the founding team and drive big technical impact. You have a passion to lead the build on new innovative products from scratch with the customer experience in mind with every touch.

We are a people-first company, and believe it’s the foundation from the smallest product feature to the biggest decisions about what we do as a company. Businesses are built by people, and we think they should be built for people, too.

Founding Engineer (Frontend or Full Stack)

We're unfortunately not able to sponsor visas at this time

This is not permanent, however, we would like to hire someone who is Interested in working in Chattanooga for 12 months starting in August 2023 through August 2024 or being out there for some amount of time

Sebastien Fauque

Problem: Globally, soils have the potential to sequester over 1 billion tons of carbon through regenerative agriculture practices and emerging solutions like biochar and enhanced rock weathering. However today, measurement, reporting, and verification of soil carbon sequestration is not cost effective, accurate, or scalable. This prevents large-scale climate finance from being deployed to rapidly scale soil carbon improvement despite its massive potential to combat climate change, improve food security, and alleviate extreme poverty. 

Terradot is building a global measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) platform to accelerate high-integrity carbon removal and storage around the world. With Stanford’s Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry Lab, we leverage technological innovation using ground truth sampling, remote sensing, and AI modeling to accurately and scalably measure soil carbon. For soil carbon project developers, Terradot decreases the time, cost, and complexity of MRV while increasing the integrity of the carbon removal credits for carbon buyers. This enables large-scale deployment of climate finance to incentivize the adoption of sustainable practices. We are focused on improving soil health in emerging economies to maximize global sequestration and community impact.

We are a public-benefit corporation driven by passion and purpose in service to our planet, people, and prosperity. Terradot is backed by world-class investors including Floodgate, John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins, Sheryl Sandberg, Ponderosa Ventures, 776 Foundation (Alexis Ohanian), George Roberts, and Stanford’s TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy. We are advised by an all-star team of Stanford climate professors with 100,000+ citations collectively.  

Terradot

A global measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) platform to accelerate high-integrity carbon removal and storage around the world. With Stanford’s Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry Lab, we leverage technological innovation using ground truth sampling, remote sensing, and AI modeling to accurately and scalably measure soil carbon

We're looking for a Founding Engineer (Full Stack Software) to join our team! You will lead the development of our Core Product: a soil carbon measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) platform. As the first technical hire, you will work directly with the founders and own the entire technology stack, including making product decisions. You will set the technical roadmap and have the opportunity to build out a world-class technical team and culture as you see best.

CPO & cofounder

Founding Engineer (Full Stack Software)

We're willing to sponsor visa for the right candidate!

We’re based in the SF/Bay Area and are fostering a strong in-person first, collaborative, mission-driven culture

Airfoil is a collective of designers, engineers, and artists helping cutting-edge products in crypto, the creator economy, and future of work take flight. Since our inception in 2019, we’ve worked with 80+ teams to bring their products to market, including Solana Labs, Drift Protocol, Layer3.xyz, Playhouse, Highbeam, and more.

As we increase our involvement in the web3 space and prepare to launch our own product offerings, we’re rapidly growing our Toronto and Singapore-based (but remote friendly) design teams.

As a fast-growing startup, working at Airfoil is both exciting and sometimes challenging.

Chief of Staff

Airfoil

We’re seeking to hire a Lead Product Designer to join our design team. Designers at Airfoil work either on internal products (Cheque, Mira, Flow) or on our partners’ products, typically in 4-6 month cycles (allowing you to contribute to various products across web3). We welcome candidates either in-person in Toronto or remote.

Some responsibilities include lead projects for the team, mentor and guide fellow team members, conduct and analyze results from user testing to translate it into experience design, concept and brainstorm UX and UI designs for projects, support all aspects of design and production for projects, focusing on innovation and quality, provide UX design support etc.

Lead Product Designer (Toronto / Remote)

Samuel Ho

In the future where the real world blends with the virtual world, we believe that non-fungible tokens will form the asset layer that represents identity, membership & ownership.

Our mission is to make NFTs more accessible and useful. From credit card checkout for NFTs to wallet infrastructure, we’ve helped creators, developers and brands make NFTs accessible for their audience so they can focus on providing value and utility for owners. We believe our products will accelerate progress towards a better, more decentralized world.

When there are less boundaries created by centralized platforms, there are less fees taken by middle parties and more interoperability for the assets you purchase and earn. This means more collaboration between ecosystems and more economic freedom for all the participants who create value.

Solutions Engineer

Paper

As an early engineer at Paper, you’ll define the new standard for merchants to on-ramp and provide real benefits for NFTs to their audience. You’ll build developer-facing tools (SDKs, APIs, webapps) that are simple yet powerful to address the rapidly growing needs of our customers. As more brands and creators look towards NFTs to build a direct relationship to their fanbase, you’ll also build web3-friendly products for buyers (wallets, social features, integrating token-gating to other products) that truly focus on the utility that NFTs offer.

Full Stack Engineer

Only for existing H-1B in the US or are from NAFTA countries (Mexico/Canada)

we're only considering candidates who can work on-site in SF or willing to relocate

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