Xoogler.co: Blockchain 11/11 & EMEA 12/9 Demo Days | How Solana & Workstream were founded
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Have successful founders share their best practices. We have Alan Yu (Solana $103B market cap) speaking on Wednesday 11/ 3 and Lei Xu (Workstream raised their $48M series B) sharing on Tuesday 11/9.
Help with raising capital. We’re hosting Xoogler Demo Day Blockchain on 11/11 (apply here) and Xoogler Demo Day EMEA on 12/9 (apply here). Founders only need to prepare 1 slide, pitch for 2 minutes and join a Q&A networking session that’s held after the pitches to meet investors. Investors, purchase your Demo Day NFT to join the pitches and register here to attend.
Connect with Talent. 465 Xooglers/Googlers have listed themselves to find a co-founder. 500+ have listed themselves to find jobs. We’ve helped OpenSea & FalconX hire product leaders recently and connected a newly minted unicorn company with a potential board member. Please reach out if you have experience as a CRO in a Series D+ company or helped with fundraising as a CFO. Learn how to join a startup from Google.
Bay Area and NY members, Xoogler.co founder Chris Fong would love to meet you in SF on Tuesday 11/2 6-7pm, at Stanford on Thursday 11/4 7-11pm or NY Thursday 11/18 5-8pm! Thank you Medha Bankhwal for organizing Friday’s 10/29 SF meetup, it was great seeing everyone!
If you’re wondering how to get more involved in crypto, join the blockchain community, join the Blockchain and Decentralized Finance 101 session on 11/2 or EMEA Crypto Metaverse chat on 11/5.
Congratulations to FlutterFlow on becoming the #2 ProductHunt of the week! Their low code platform helps people build Flutter apps easily. Congratulations as well to Mage on their $6.3M raise from Google's Gradient Ventures! Mage is the 'Stripe for AI'. Check out both platforms to bootstrap your own startups. Enterprise dev tools startup MergeQueue (funded by Xoogler Ventures, Lenny Rachitsky and Elad Gil) is hiring a founding engineer and first GTM lead. Contact Ankit.
Xoogler Ventures portfolio company Goodcall’s CEO/Founder Bob Summers announced their $4M raise! If you work at a platform that works with 10,000+ local businesses, be sure to reach out to him to learn how he can help. Bob is hiring a community manager and software engineers.
Do you know anyone working at Stripe? Did you know Xoogler.co has helped Stripe employees form the 100+ member Zebra Angels? They’ve heard startup pitches from founders such as Jay Chang from Genopets and Cory Klippsten from Swan and are syndicating their first startup investment. Reach out to Chris if you’re a Stripe employee.
🗓 Upcoming Events
Weekly Tuesday startup mentorship sessions hosted by Kazuki Notsu and Yiğit Ihlamur. RSVP.
Weekly on Clubhouse with Bader Hamdan. Email clubhouse@xoogler.co if you need an invite.
11/2 5pm PT: Blockchain and Decentralized Finance 101 with FalconX’s Aya Kantorovich. RSVP
11/3 5pm PT (SF and remote): How Solana was founded by Xoogler cofounder Alan Yu. RSVP
11/4 6:30pm: 🇬🇧 London in-person drinks hosted by Sal Mohammed. RSVP.
11/4 5pm PT: Google Acquired Entrepreneurs Meetup with. RSVP
11/4 7pm PT (in-person at Stanford): Meetup with Xoogler.co founder Chris Fong and meet other Xooglers/Googlers. RSVP
11/5 12pm CEST: EU Crypto Metaverse. Hosted by Daniel Gilgenmann. RSVP
11/9 6pm PT (SF in-person & online): Workstream’s founding story with Lei Xu. Learn from Lei’s decision to leave Google, his prior startup that was part of Y Combinator and journey to running a successful startup. Workstream recently announced their Series B, they raised from Coatue, Founders Fund & Bond. RSVP..
11/11 11am PT: Blockchain Demo Day. Apply here
11/11 8pm ET: 🇨🇦 Toronto Virtual Meetup. RSVP
11/17 6pm PT: Seattle meetup hosted by Hadas Shahak. RSVP
11/18 5pm IST: 🇮🇳 Fireside chat with Animesh Kejriwal, founder of Timepay (acquired by Udaan). RSVP
11/18 5pm ET (in-person in NY): Meet up with Chris Fong and other Xooglers/Googlers. RSVP
11/25 6pm SGT: 🇸🇬 Virtual drinks hosted by Anne Caron. RSVP
11/29 5:30pm PT (San Mateo in-person & online): Career development fireside chat with Mogan Shieh. From Google to a startup PM. How to think about your career, assess opportunities and when to leave your job. RSVP
11/30 5pm UK: EMEA Startup Insights with Stripe’s Startup Partner Lead. RSVP
12/9: EMEA Demo Day Startup Application. Investor Application.
12/9 5pm PT: Why PMs Should Run For Political Office with Gene Yoon. RSVP
12/18 5pm ET (in-person): Miami Meetup hosted by Anthony Hernandez. RSVP
1/13 5pm PT: TGIF with Dan Siroker, founder of Optimizely. RSVP
🚀 Talent
If you are looking for a job, sign up here. Sign up here to list a role for a Xoogler company. Complete list of job opportunities. Submit an open 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.
San Mateo / Remote: FalconX is hiring for Strategic Opportunities Associate, Partnerships Manager and various engineering roles.
Remote US, NY or SF. OpenSea is looking for a Principle level Infrastructure engineer, Security, SDET, Recruiter/Sourcer and Controller.
SF: OneSchema is bringing on their first non-technical hire. Join a <10 person startup that has raised from Silicon Valley’s top investors.
US / Remote: Warmly for Zoom recently launched. Openings for Growth and Engineering roles.
SF / Remote: CoScreen is looking for a Head of Product Marketing and Technical Community Manager / Developer Relations.
SF: Mage backed by Gradient Ventures is looking for a Front End Engineer, raised $5M+ with under 10 employees.
SF: Faves, curated content from Silicon Valley's greatest minds is hiring in product, data science and engineering.
San Mateo: Mezli is hiring a mechanical design engineer for designing and building multiple subsystems for their auto-kitchen.
Venice, CA: Marvin provides digital mental health services over telemedicine to healthcare professionals is hiring a Senior Recruiting Manager.
Australia: EQL is hiring a Head of Engineering and Product Lead to work alongside 3 Xoogler co-founders.