👋 I’m Justin. I run The SF Grind, The LA Grind, and scout for Headline. I live in LA but spend a lot of time in San Francisco meeting founders, hosting gatherings, and enjoying the wonderful city.
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🌁 Upcoming Events We’re Hosting 🌁
🗓️ April 30: Curated Seed+ Founders Dinner. SF. 6:30 - 9 pm. Sponsored by Sprinto, the world’s first autonomous trust platform.
🗓️ May 21: Curated Seed+ Founders Dinner. SF. 6:30 - 9 pm.
🗓️ May 22: Curated Seed+ Founders Breakfast. SF. 9 - 11 am.
👋 This Week in SF 👋
🗓️ March 30: Frontier Tower AI Paper Reading Club. Mid-Market. 5 - 6 pm.
🗓️ March 31: -1 to Replit with Amjad & Haya. South Beach. 3:30 - 5 pm.
🗓️ March 31: Afore Portfolio Spring Showcase. South Beach. 5 - 9 pm.
🗓️ March 31: SF GrabChai: Remake the Web. Financial District. 5 - 7 pm.
🗓️ March 31: Dev Setup Demos - Show your agents.md! SoMa. 5:30 - 8:30 pm.
🗓️ March 31: South Bay Systems: Consensus & Full Text Search. Menlo Park. 6 - 8 pm.
🗓️ March 31: AI Career Fair at Frontier Tower. Mid-Market. 6 - 8:30 pm.
🗓️ March 31: Southeast Asia Tech and Investor Mixer Fireside Chat. South Beach. 6 - 8 pm.
🗓️ March 31: How do we preserve memories in the age of AI? — a workshop with Autograph. Mid-Market. 6 - 8 pm.
🗓️ April 1: Build a Winning Deck and Practice Your Pitch. Mid-Market. 3 - 7 pm.
🗓️ April 1: Building at the Intersection of AI and Regulation. South Beach. 6 - 9 pm.
🗓️ April 2: Connecting with Emotion for founders and team leaders. Mid-Market. 6 - 8 pm.
🗓️ April 3: Vibe-coding HACathon | Building AI for Finance. Union Square. 10 am - 5 pm.
🗓️ April 3: Organizational Game Design with Liberating Structures. Mid-Market. 12 - 4 pm.
🗓️ April 3: Farcaster Feature Launch! Social Mixer + Buildathon! Mid-Market. 5 - 9 pm.
🗓️ April 4: Human Enhancement Hackathon - Phase 1. Mid-Market. 12 - 4 pm.
🗓️ April 4: Engineered Flow: Advanced Deep-Dive. Mid-Market. 2 - 5 pm.
🗓️ April 5: Fix-It Fair - Electronics Repair & Teardown. Mid-Market. 2 - 4 pm.
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Top 5 SF Startup Jobs
Forward Deployed Engineer @ Readily
Product Manager @ Tavus
Product Designer @ Wordware
Founding Head of Marketing @ Confident AI
Head of Technical Special Projects @ Overview
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Other Opportunities
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Opus1, a provider of a management platform for music and performing arts schools, raised an undisclosed amount in Series B.
DOSS, a developer of an AI-native “Operations Cloud” for inventory-based businesses, raised a $55M Series B co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest.
Qualified Health, a company providing an enterprise AI platform built for health systems, raised a $125M Series B was led by New Enterprise Associates, Inc.
Krane, a provider of an AI-native platform for construction supply chain management, raised a $9M Seed round co-led by Glasswing Ventures and Link Ventures.
Zalos, a developer of computer agents for finance operations, raised a $3.6M Seed round led by 14 Peaks.
Vanguard Defense, a data observability company for defense contractors and government vendors, raised a $5M Seed round led by First In.
Harvey, a company developing legal infrastructure for law firms and in-house teams, raised $200M in new funding led by GIC and Sequoia.
Rocketlane, an AI-powered Professional Services Automation (PSA) company, raised a $60M Series C led by Insight Partners.
Littlebird, a provider of a full-context AI assistant service, raised a $11M Seed round led by Lotus Studio.
Highlight AI, a provider of an intelligent operating system for teams and AI agents, raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures.
Shepherd, a provider of an AI-native insurance technology platform, raised a $42M Series B led by Intact Private Capital.
BrainGrid, a provider of an AI product planner service for non-technical builders, raised a $1M Pre-Seed round led by Menlo Ventures.
Zipline, a developer and operator of autonomous drone delivery systems, raised a $200M Series H led by Fidelity.
Gimlet Labs, a startup that provides serverless inference for AI agents, raised a $80M Series A led by Menlo Ventures.
BlueFlag Security, a provider of an identity-centric SDLC security and governance platform, raised a $16.5M Series A led by Maverick Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures.
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Justin