Happy Monday!

Welcome to the latest edition of unistart, where we feature the hottest early-stage startups, job opportunities, and valuable resources, all in one newsletter.

Let’s jump straight into what’s on 🔥 right now.

Table of Contents

1. Startups of the Week

2. NEW hand-picked job openings

3. Unistart’s Top 50 Founders List - Nominations Open NOW!

4. Try out the unistart investor outreach tool

🤟 What Your Classmates Are Building

Vantager

What? - An AI-native investment platform that transforms extensive financial data into actionable insights for limited partners.

Why? - Limited partners worldwide have long relied on GP pitches and personal intuition when evaluating investment opportunities. Vantager is an AI-powered tool that helps LPs conduct diligence and invest safely and confidently.

• 📍Industries: AI, B2B, Fintech

• 🚀 Stage: Seed (Backed by Entrepreneurs First)

• 😎 Founders: Nicolas Neven (University of Southern California), Mason Lender (Yale University)

Bonus: They are currently hiring part time and full time AI Engineers based in NYC, reply to this email if you are interested!

Julius AI

What? - A no-code computational AI platform that helps you visualize, analyze, and interpret complex datasets.

Why? - Ever spent hours at your desk analyzing datasets for a class, research project, or personal project? With Julius AI you can create clear visualizations, extract key insights, and run advanced mathematical models within minutes.

Bonus - Within a year of its founding, Julius AI has gained over 500k users and was recently featured in IVP’s ($7B High-growth Tech Fund) Enterprise AI 55 list as an indispensable tool for Chief Information Officers worldwide.

• 📍Industries: AI, Computer, Big Data, Data Visualization

• 🚀 Stage: Pre-Seed

• 😎 Founders: Rahul Sonwalkar (University of Texas at Dallas)

Givefront 

What? - All-in-one financial software for nonprofit organizations.

Why? - Nonprofits often struggle with financial management but with Givefront, nonprofits can easily file taxes, analyze financial data, and manage budgets all in one convenient location.

Bonus - This is not Matt and Ethan’s first rodeo in nonprofits and startups. In 2022, the duo founded Oban, a loan-comparison platform in Nigeria that has grown into the nation’s leading financial literacy platform, helping over 10k customers and facilitating over USD $150,000 in loans. Techcrunch also recently featured Givefront as one of the most interesting startups from YC’s Winter 2024 Demo Day.

• 📍Industries: Finance, Non Profit

• 🚀 Stage: Pre-Seed (YC W24)

• 😎 Founders: Matt Tengtrakool (Harvard University), Ethan Sayre (Harvard University)

Know a startup that we should feature in this newsletter? Send us a reply!

 📃 New Job Openings

Engineering

• Social impact incubator Syntax Studios is hiring a Full-Stack Developer (Remote)

• Jonsal Intelligence, a voice AI customer service provider, is looking for a Software Engineering Intern (Remote)

• Universal speech translator startup Commonbase is searching for a Founding Product Engineer (In-person, New York or San Francisco)

• Story.com, an AI storytelling platform, is hiring an AI/ML Engineer (Remote)

• Cloud services provider for governmental agencies Archesys is looking for a Cloud Engineer (Remote)

Non-Engineering

• Real estate financing advisory firm Lev is looking for an Account Executive (In-person, New York, NY)

• Guidewheel, a factory operations enhancement startup, is hiring a Business Development Representative (Remote)

• Gen-AI powered Shopify for home service professionals Topline Pro (YC W21) is hiring a Social Media Intern (In-person, New York, NY)

• VR fitness app developer FitXR is looking for a Strategic Finance Associate (Remote)

• Wynd Labs, a data-scraping startup, is hiring a Creative Communications Lead (Remote)

📸 Top 50 Student Founders List

What? - From building the very hardware used in the Ukraine War to chips that power the future of AI, the world has seen a huge surge in talented young founders across the world in 2024. To feature founders building revolutionary technologies and products, unistart is compiling a list of the top 50 student founders (list releasing later this month…stay tuned).

Only requirement is that they founded their startup while in school (undergrad, grad, PhD).

Nominate the most cracked founders you know NOW ⬅️

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