Smart home tech, Remote work app, AI grocer

Happy Friday!

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 dive straight into what’s on 🔥 this week.

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1. Startups of the Week

2. New Entry Level Job Openings

3. VC looking for investors

4. We NEED your help!

🤟 What Your Classmates Are Building

Intecular

What? - A smart outlet that automates your smart home technology with best-in-class sensors. It can detect temperature, humidity, air quality, motion, and also functions as a night light.

Why? - If you ever tried to turn your home into a smart home, you know that you need to install a bunch of sensors around your house. Intecular’s InvisOutlet packages all of that into one outlet.

• 📍Industries: Home Maintenance, Hardware, PropTech, Consumer, Real Estate, Hospitality, IoT

• 🚀 Stage: Seed

• 😎 Founders: Leon Xue (UMN), Lawrence Ko (RIT), Aaron Maan

Bonus: Their kickstarter was fully funded in 12 minutes 🤯

BOND

What? - An app that gamifies team bonding in remote workplace environments.

Why? - Remote workplaces often lack a sense of community. Creating daily prompts encourages team interactions. The individual responses also give people a more personal connection to their coworkers.

• 📍Industries: SaaS, B2B, AI, HR, Community

• 🚀 Stage: Bootstrapped

• 😎 Founders: Chloe Samaha (Babson), Brian Cho (UofT)

Halla

What? - An AI solution that takes over 100 billion shopper and product data points to accurately recommend what grocery items shoppers should buy next.

Why? - By suggesting products that shoppers are actually interested in, it gives them a better and more frictionless shopping experience that may encourage them to spend more.

• 📍Industries: SaaS, AI, Food and Beverage, Ecommerce

• 🚀 Stage: Series A

• 😎 Founders: Henry Michaelson (Cal), Gabriel Nipote (UCLA), Spencer Price (USC)

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

📃 New Job Openings

• Glints, the #1 SEA career discovery platform, is hiring a Web Software Engineer.

• Wiz, a startup reinventing cloud security, is looking for a Marketing Designer.

• TikTok is hiring a Security Operations Manager.

• 2K (The NBA 2K, 2K) is looking for a Technical Artist.

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.

💰 A VC fund is fundraising

In the past couple of weeks, we have been giving a preview of a fast-growing startup raising right now.

Today, we are switching it up.

Three experienced investors are raising a $1M microfund to invest in the outliers of the next YC class.

The general partners have backed decacorns startups like Deel at a multi-billion dollar VC fund, created mega communities from scratch, and graduated from Stanford.

If you are interested in this checking out this deck or getting connected with the GPs, fill out this form.

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