Hot brand-new startups hiring
First on the list in November 2026: Nox Metals, Endurance Energy and HUD.
Latest to raise: Preference Model, which raised $16M Seed in October 2026. Updated , using Saywise's data on startup funding and open roles. See how we rank them.
Find my matchesThe top 25, November 2026
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Nox Metals
Supplying America's Industrial Base | ISO 9001 CERTIFIED
Raised $11.5M Seed in June 2026
10 new roles in 30 days
YC S25
Investors: Y Combinator, Hyperion
75open roles$39k – $350k a year
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Endurance Energy
Endurance is a Seattle-based start-up building the world’s first commercial subsea geothermal power systems.
Raised $54M Series A in June 2026
9 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Founders Fund
Investors: Founders Fund
22open roles$100k – $325k a year
3
HUD
Hud is the first Runtime Code Sensor designed specifically to make AI-generated code production-safe by default.
Raised $16M Series A in June 2026
27 new roles in 30 days
YC W25
Investors: Y Combinator, Standard Capital
32open roles$100k – $295k a year
- 4
Raised $16M Seed in October 2026
5 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Andreessen Horowitz
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz
6 open roles$165k – $350k a year
- 5
Idler
Hill-climb any benchmark, for any model, in any domain, using our RL environments.
Raised $9M Seed in August 2026
2 new roles in 30 days
YC S25
Investors: Y Combinator, Paradigm
6 open roles$125k – $500k a year
- 6
AfterQuery
Applied research lab curating data solutions to accelerate foundation model development.
Raised a Series B round in September 2026
5 new roles in 30 days
YC W25
Investors: Y Combinator
45 open roles$84k – $550k a year
- 7
Wardstone
The Modular Interceptor Platform
Raised $5M Seed in February 2026
18 new roles in 30 days
YC F25
Investors: Y Combinator
18 open roles$60k – $240k a year
- 8
Harmony
Agentic Enterprise Service Management
Raised $34M Seed in July 2026
2 new roles in 30 days
Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners
13 open roles$85k – $320k a year
- 9
ALSO
Born out of Rivian.
Raised $150M Series D in August 2026
5 new roles in 30 days
Investors: Prysm Capital
19 open roles$100k – $280k a year
- 10
Walden Robotics
Robots ready to work.
Raised $300M Seed in July 2026
8 new roles in 30 days
Investors: Deviation Capital, Toyota
35 open roles$86k – $425k a year
- 11
Raised $8M Seed in September 2026
YC W26
Investors: Y Combinator, Foundation Capital
6 open roles$70k – $200k a year
- 12
Beeline Medicines
Let’s get to what matters.
Raised $426.3M Series A in June 2026
4 new roles in 30 days
Investors: Bain Capital
19 open roles$77k – $382k a year
- 13
Merge Labs
Merge Labs is a research lab with the long-term mission of bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability, agency and experience.
Raised $252M Seed in January 2026
8 new roles in 30 days
Investors: OpenAI
33 open roles$95k – $305k a year
- 14
Terac
Terac is providing specialized experts on demand to power research.
Raised $9M Seed in November 2025
7 new roles in 30 days
16 open roles$70k – $210k a year
- 15
Edison Scientific
The AI platform for scientific R&D.
Raised $70M Seed in December 2025
6 new roles in 30 days
Investors: Spark Capital, Triatomic Capital
24 open roles$150k – $350k a year
- 16
Raised $6M Seed in May 2026
3 new roles in 30 days
YC F25
Investors: Y Combinator
8 open roles$70k – $200k a year
- 17
Standard Template Labs
AI service management.
Raised $49M Seed in March 2026
7 new roles in 30 days
Investors: CRV, ICONIQ Growth
16 open roles$80k – $250k a year
- 18
Raised $7M Series A in November 2025
4 new roles in 30 days
YC X25
Investors: Y Combinator, Standard Capital
11 open roles$100k – $250k a year
- 19
Raised $10M Seed in June 2026
YC X26
Investors: Y Combinator, Crane Venture Partners
4 open roles$96k – $250k a year
- 20
River AI
Creating personal AI owned and shaped by each individual.
Raised a Series A round in August 2026
6 new roles in 30 days
23 open roles$150k – $420k a year
- 21
Raised $5.2M Seed in July 2026
YC W26
Investors: Y Combinator, Base 10 Partners
8 open roles$80k – $500k a year
- 22
Raised a Pre-seed round in September 2026
YC S26
Investors: Y Combinator
4 open roles$96k – $200k a year
- 23
Raised a Seed round in July 2026
2 new roles in 30 days
YC X25
Investors: Y Combinator
4 open roles$100k – $200k a year
- 24
Foresight Health
AI-native healthcare provider to eliminate preventable conditions
Raised $8.5M Seed in April 2026
1 new role in 30 days
Backed by Neo
Investors: Neo, Quiet Capital, Susa Ventures
5 open roles$140k – $300k a year
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Cylake
A complete, AI-native, data-driven cybersecurity platform that doesn’t depend on the public cloud.
Raised a Convertible Note round in September 2026
2 new roles in 30 days
13 open roles$130k – $250k a year
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