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If you’re new here, this is the unistart newsletter, where we feature the hottest early stage startups, job opportunities, and valuable resources, all in one newsletter.

Let’s dive straight into what’s on 🔥 this week.

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1. Startups of the Week

2. New job openings at early stage startups

3. *NEW* unistart investor outreach tool

4. More unistart updates!

🤟 What Your Classmates Are Building

The Thiel Fellowship just dropped. Here are our 3 favorites:

Etched

What? - Transformer-specific chips that run AI models at unprecedented speeds and scale.

Why? - Cheaper and faster computer is AI’s biggest bottleneck.

• 📍Industries: AI, Hardware

• 🚀 Stage: Seed

• 😎 Founders: Gavin Uberti (Harvard), Chris Zhu (Harvard), Robert Wachen (Harvard)

P.S. They’re hiring! Check out their Careers page here.

Mercor

What? - AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your next employees

Why? - Most recruiters overrely on factors like prestige when evaluating candidates which can be flawed. Mercor goes through resumes, public profiles like GitHub, and interviews prospects to get a bigger picture.

• 📍Industries: AI, SaaS

• 🚀 Stage: Seed

• 😎 Founders: Brendan Foody (Georgetown), Surya Midha (Georgetown), Adarsh H. (Harvard)

Automorphic

What? - Run language model tuning experiments more cheaply and efficiently

Why? - Prompt stuffing is costly and has context-window limitations

• 📍Industries: AI

• 🚀 Stage: Seed

• 😎 Founders: Govind Gnanakumar (GT),

  Mahesh Natamai (GT), Maaher Gandhi 

  Interested in connecting with these startups or know of one that we should feature in this newsletter? Send us a reply!

📃 New Job Openings

• Rilla is looking for engineering, ops, and revenue roles(0-3 YOE). Reply “RILLA” if interested.

• 222 is hiring growth and creative director roles (1-3 YOE). Reply “222” if interested.

• An advertising marketplace facilitating on-box/on-product marketing on CPG products is looking for Full Stack Engineers (students ok!) . Reply “CPG” interested.

All these jobs are PAID!

None of these a fit? Check our job board for more.

We update our job board weekly with the best entry-level jobs in startups & tech.

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🎤 Moreeeee Schools!

We added even more schools to our database, including a dedicated filter for founders who got accepted into YC!

Discover some newly added startups on our website.

And we’re coming to CORNELL next! If you know any startups we should add or founders we should meet, reply to this email and let us know!