Xoogler.co: EMEA Demo Day 12/9, Future Demo Days & Career Development
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🗞 Startup News
EMEA’s Demo Day is on 12/9! Apply to pitch here. Investors, register here to attend. Our July Demo Day featured startups like Genopets which announced their $8.3M raise and Massive which announced their $11M raise. Congrats respectively to Jay Chang and Brian Kennish and reach out to them if you’d like to join Genopets or Massive.
We hosted Xoogler Demo Day Blockchain 2 on 11/11. Congrats to Icarus, Asoba, Playya, Capsid, Massbit, Audiodub, Greentrade, Common Computer, CinemaTokens and a stealth startup! Thank you to Stonks for organizing. We will be hosting Demo Day APAC on 2/2/22 and future Demo Days around AI, Consumer, Developer Tools, SaaS, FinTech, Healthcare, Education and Blockchain. Start thinking of the startup that you want to pitch and we look forward to connecting you with investors in 2022!
🚀 Career Development
Are you thinking of your 2022 plans and wondering how to accelerate your career?
Watch Google’s former CFO Patrick Pichette’s talk that he gave the Xoogler community in June and join his colleagues Krista Skalde and Steve Woods (Google 2008-21) on December 8 as they answer your career development questions. You can review Inovia’s portfolio company job openings here.
Xoogler Miami lead Anthony Hernandez recently joined OpenSea as a PM, reports indicate that they are being offered a $10B valuation after being valued at $1.5B in June and raising $23M in March. You can hear about their marketing, people, community, operations and engineering openings from Anthony, their VP Marketing and Head of Recruiting on December 16 to prep yourself for jobs in Web3!
Mogan Shieh spoke on 11/29 regarding how he decided to leave Google as a PM to join FalconX, reach out to Mogan, Kush Shrivastava or Xoogler for a warm intro if you’re interested in joining Raghu Yarlagadda’s (Google 2014-17) $3.75B company.
You might also like to consider being the Head of Product in Sydney with Mina or an Engineer or Product Lead with Andrew in Melbourne 🇦🇺, a Brand Designer, Content Manager, Engineer or PM in SF/NY with Julia, Senior Engineer with Bob in Cupertino, Security Engineer with MiSalud in 🇲🇽 Mexico/US, Head of Finance, Ops & People in NY 🗽 with Bryton, founding PM with Kevin or develop new skills with HackerDAO.
If you’re a manager looking to improve in 2022, Jennifer is offering to help you develop successful teams by giving you tools to run workshops that increase team effectiveness, and help team members grow.
Reach out to xoog@xoogler.co to get involved in Xoogler’s blockchain plans, check out the NFT or join the community.
🙌 Congratulations and Thank You
Thank you Zachery Lim for all that you've done for the community while on your gap year! He’s now attending Wharton. He recently shared his highlights. Thank you everyone for supporting Zachery!
Congratulations to Xoogler Advisor Qasar Younis on Applied Intuition announcing its $175M Series D! Qasar & Peter are hiring around the world.
Congratulations to Xoogler Advisor Catherine Lacavera on joining Color as their Chief Legal Officer! She’s hiring across the board.
Thank you to Alphabet’s board member and Google’s early investor Ram Shriram for the feedback session with Xoogler startups on 11/17.
Thank you Lei Xu co-founder of Workstream for hosting the community in your SF office on 11/10 and sharing your journey. Congrats on raising your Series B!
Thank you Michael Tom co-founder of Radiate for hosting the community in your NY office on 11/19. Congrats on being listed in the Forbes 30 under 30!
🗓 Upcoming Events
Weekly startup mentorship hosted by Kazuki Notsu and Yiğit Ihlamur. RSVP
12/2 12pm CEST: Virtual Berlin & Crypto meetup hosted by Daniel Gilgenmann. RSVP
12/7 8pm LA in-person: Trivia night hosted by Mitch Bradford. RSVP
12/9 6pm Sydney in-person: Dinner hosted by Joel Solomons. RSVP
12/9 4pm GMT: EMEA Demo Day Startup Application. Investor Application
12/9 5pm PT: Why PMs Should Run For Political Office with Gene Yoon. RSVP
12/9 5.30pm San Diego in-person: Meetup hosted by Arthur Johnston. RSVP
12/9 6pm Seattle in-person: Meetup hosted by Hadas Shahak. RSVP
12/11 4pm PT East Bay in-person: [For Xoogler volunteers] EOY Happy Hour at MinhHa Pham’s home. Join waitlist
12/14 5pm PT: Practical AI presentation by Huican Zhu (Google 2000-10 & 12-16). RSVP
12/16 7pm GMT: Virtual EMEA drinks hosted by Sal Mohammed. RSVP
12/18 5pm Miami in-person: Meetup hosted by Anthony Hernandez. RSVP
1/6 5pm PT: VCs & Angels hosted by Kazuki and Yigit RSVP
1/13 5pm PT: TGIF with Dan Siroker, founder of Optimizely. RSVP
January Palo Alto & online: Opportunities in Climate with Scott Tierney, co-founder of CapitalG & now Valo Ventures. RSVP
2/2 1pm SGT: APAC Demo Day Startup Application. Investor Application
2/10 5:30pm Tokyo in-person: TGIF hosted by Tatsuo Sakamoto and Kazuki. RSVP
🚀 Talent
Sign up here if you’re open to new opportunities. Sign up here to list a role. Email talent@xoogler.co if you’re interested in any of the following.
Remote: Dev-tools YC-backed startup is hiring a founding engineer.
SF: OneSchema is bringing on their first non-technical hire. Join a <10 person startup that has raised from Silicon Valley’s top investors.
SF: Mage backed by Gradient Ventures is looking for a Front End Engineer, raised $5M+ with under 10 employees.
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