BouncySushi

How to find seed stage startups?

I want to find seed stage startups to join as a founding engineer. I want to take some risk while I can and try if I can get a good return.

How should I go about this?

I have 7 years of experience. Building distributed systems, backend services with Go, Clojure, etc. I have some frontend experience as well with SvelteKit, Tailwind, etc. I also made a SaaS product recently and got around 10 small businesses as customers on subscription. The product itself got acquired for 5 figures USD after I ran it for 2 months

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PrancingBanana

Stealth14mo

Take a free subscription of crunchbase. Find startups funded in the last 2 years by good funds and cancel subscription. The founders are generally easy to cold call

BubblyDumpling

Stealth14mo

This is the worst way to find startups sorry piggybacking on your comments

A lot of seed stage startups are not on crunch base and the ones there are probably also the ones to avoid.

Best way to find a startup find a area that you find interesting and follow all developments and news. Lets say fintech. If you went to Crunchbase you would not know that Flipkart is building a credit startup within itself and is hiring for it. However if you were following e-commerce or fintech you would have read Prakash Sikaria left to start then you follow them on linked in. Similarly, Dale Vaz from Swiggy quit and is launching a trading startup.

Both of these are imo the best founding team opportunities I am aware of both but you won’t find on Crunchbase, or by them time you do it will be too late.

If you rely on crunchbase to get startup jobs at seed stage you will be stuck in companies that you should avoid.

PrancingBanana

Stealth14mo

Yeah cool

DancingUnicorn

Stealth14mo

Can you please tell us about your own startup

BouncySushi

Gojek14mo

It's a customer support chatbot platform built with LLM. A business owner signs up, creates a bot by providing links to their business website/docs etc and they get a bot which can answer all questions related to the business.

They'd also get a snippet which can be pasted into their landing page for example to add a support chat bubble.

Along with that it had history, some analytics, customisation of appearance, etc. Based on the message and training limit, there were 4 subscription tiers.

I got around 10 users across 19 and 49 USD / month plans. But I got bored and also i don't have any marketing experience or an existing distribution channel. So I listed on microns.io -- got a good offer and sold it.

DancingUnicorn

Stealth14mo

Thanks a lot man, really appreciate this.

ZestyBagel

Microsoft14mo

Wellfound (formally angellist) has helped me a lot. You get to chat with the recruiter who is usually the founder for small startups. The platform also shows transparent salary range and ESOPS.

YC Jobs is also a great way to know about recently funded companies, gives you sector wise filters too.

Peersignal is good for B2B SAAS discovery. It's like a excel sheet to filter your choices in any way possible.

ZoomyJellybean

Stealth14mo

we’re funded early stage startup in fintech

BouncySushi

Gojek14mo

How can I get in touch 😅

ZippyBoba

Stealth14mo

Why would you dox your number like this

SleepyTaco

Goldman Sachs14mo

All VC funds wants to ride the wave early. Look at portfolios of VC funds like Sequoia, Blume, Lightspeed, Elevation. There are also company funds portfolio like Flipkart, Razorpay, Rainmatter Group. Startups backed by these are heavily researched backed on thesis and market competition although it's a 1:100 success ratio, these are the ones who create buzz in the market.

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