Xoogler.co: 2020 In Review | Demo Days in Europe & USA | Xoogler Ventures | Happy Holidays
News, Upcoming Events, and Resources for the Xoogler Community
🗞 News
🙏 Thank you for being a part of the community during this challenging year. Xoogler.co’s membership grew to over 9,300 members, up from 7,062 in 2019, we achieved 32% YoY membership growth thanks to you spreading the word!
🎊 We added supporters like Ram Shriram and Bradley Horowitz to strengthen and grow the community.
Xoogler Ventures was started with the support of Sandeep Jain, Howard Tung, Catherine Lacavera, Vibhu Mittal, Phil Santoro, David Kolodny, Veronique Lafargue, Qasar Younis, Patrick Pichette, Rune Bentien and many others. This is an evolution of the 1,700+ member Investment Syndicate that was started by Ethan Beard and Kushagra Shrivastava to help startups raise. Thank you for everyone’s efforts to strengthen the Xoogler community by establishing the fund.
During 2020 the community hosted 312 events (254 virtual), and held Demo Days in Bangalore (in person, thanks to Amit Agrawal and Anshu Surana) and virtual in Southeast Asia (thanks to Anne Caron, Tarun Nallu, Björn Lindfors and Qaynat Sharma), Europe (thanks to Jenny Collins, Aashna Gupta, Rune Bentien and Steffen Ehrhardt), and USA (thanks to Josh Lee and Kazuki Notsu).
If you’re an angel investor, you can watch the videos and easily indicate your interest to invest in the startups from USA’s Demo Day. Here are the videos of their pitches, congrats to all the founders! Classalog, EveryMeal, Flaire, KinParenting, Mixlife, Peer Collective, Performetry, Plater, Quiyer, Revmo, Sounder, Timeless, Wavepaths, Yourself Online and 2 stealth startups presented. Email demoday@xoogler.co to access the investment details.
🎓The Xoogler School book has been published! Following Xoogler School, 13 students worked together to publish a book from their learnings from 80+ Xooglers that spoke and mentored during the 8 week program. The book is titled Navigating Your Career and is available on Amazon. It’s a great gift for 16-24 year olds. Thank you to all of the volunteers from the community, especially Stefanie Fackrell, Mary Ioannidis, Julia Levy, Mariusz Lapinski and Arsh Buch that made Xoogler School a success!
Happy Holidays, enjoy the time with your loved ones and have an amazing 2021!
Zachery, Ankit & Chris
🗓 Upcoming Events
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1/5 2pm PST: Mentoring by Kazuki, Yiğit, Matt, and Noah. RSVP
1/12 2pm PST: Mentoring by Kazuki, Yiğit, Matt, and Noah. RSVP
1/13 12pm CEST: Berlin Online Meetup. RSVP
1/13 5:30pm MST: Colorado Xooglers: Toast the New Year and "How We're Doing It" talk (with a special guest!). RSVP
1/14 5pm PST: a16z’s Connie Chan will be sharing what Andreessen Horowitz is excited about and tips on fundraising from them. Moderated by Insiya Lokhandwala. RSVP
1/18 6pm PST: Angels & Investment Syndicate Q&A with Ankit & Chris. RSVP
1/19 5pm GMT: 5 Science-Based Steps to Become More Resilient with Pamela Wagner. RSVP
1/19 2pm PST: Mentoring by Kazuki, Yiğit, Matt, and Noah. RSVP
1/20 10am AEST: Stories from the first Google Australia employee, Kate Vale. RSVP
1/21 5pm PST: Women's Happy Hour & Fireside Chat with Claire Wasserman, Hosted by Nadine Shelton. RSVP
1/26 2pm PST: Mentoring by Kazuki, Yiğit, Matt, and Noah. RSVP
1/27 6pm PST: Autonomous Vehicles Meetup with Moh. RSVP
1/28 5pm PST: Global TGIF. RSVP
1/30: Sydney Wine Tasting Tour. RSVP
2/2 6pm PST: LA Meetup with David. RSVP
2/9 5pm PST: Fireside chat with VMware’s CMO Carol Carpenter moderated by Francois Olivier Grisel, Senior Director, Growth Marketing at Figma organized by Veronique. RSVP
2/10 5pm PST: Mastermind: Cracking Go-To-Market for Developer-Focused Startups. RSVP
2/17 5pm PST: Fireside Chat with Laura Borghesi, VP of Growth at Gympass. RSVP
🚀 Talent
Xoogler Consulting Co. Complete list of job opportunities. Find a co-founder. Submit an open role. Email talent@xoogler.co to access the talent platform.
Email for a warm intro to any of the following opportunities.
SF & Remote: Wilbur Labs is a startup studio turning bold ideas into market-leading companies. They are hiring for an EIR.
SF & Remote: Newfront (YC W18) is transforming the $500B+ commercial insurance market through technology. Since starting 3 years ago, they've grown to ~200 people & are hiring for an Eng Manager, Tech Lead, & Sr Product Designer. Email their CTO/Co-Founder Gordon Wintrob to learn more.
Mexico, SF & Remote: Cerby is a cybersecurity company focused on helping you harness Shadow IT. They are looking for engineers. The founder sold his prior company for $440M.
SF & Bangalore - FalconX recently announced a funding round by American Express Ventures and $3 Billion per Month in Transaction Volumes. They have openings for a Head of Compliance, Institutional Coverage, Quantitative Trader, Trade Operations, Security Engineer & other roles.
SF - Kapwing is an online image, video, and GIF editing platform. Our mission is to enable digital storytelling. Looking for QA Engineer, Senior UX Designer & Director of Kapwing for EDU.
Hawaii, Colorado, or US Remote - Warmly aims to end cold outreach altogether by showing you the shortest-path warm intro into any company you want to sell to, and the number of hops it takes to get there. Hiring for an Account Executive, Engineers, Sales, and Data Operations Manager.
Remote - Invisible Technologies, recently featured in NY Mag on “What if You Could Outsource Your To-Do List?” is hiring for Product Designers, Engineers and Content Writers.
Mountain View, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul, Munich, Detroit, LA, Washington DC - Applied Intuition helps companies comprehensively test and rapidly accelerate their autonomous vehicle development. They are hiring for Product, Business Functions, Design, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing roles.
Sydney, Colombo & US: Different, Sydney based PropTech company is hiring for product and engineer roles in Sydney and Colombo. In addition, they are looking for a CEO for their US business. Started by Uber’s first PM & ex-Softbank.
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