Teli, Teleprompters & Trades
Diana Health $55M, Recall.ai $38M, Dispatch $18M, Clyx $14M, Blocks $10M+ — plus Demo Day teleprompter chaos, AI memory, and fresh gigs from Kalshi to Earth Brands!
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Happy Saturday Hustlers! This week, Teli launched! 🎉
Teli is our new talent platform built to match and introduce top young talent to founders at early-stage startups and SMBs. The job search has become an endless black hole of applications, cold emails, and ghosting. We exist to fill this gap and reflect the reality that work experience increasingly matters more than academic performance and pedigree. Read more about the launch here.
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Kate Condliffe, Co-Founder & CEO of Diana Health, a network of women’s health practices integrating hospital partnerships with whole-person care, raised $55M in Series C funding led by HealthQuest Capital.
Amanda Zhu, Co-Founder of Recall.ai, an API platform powering AI meeting integrations and conversation data infrastructure, raised $38M in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
Madalyn Armijo, Co-Founder & COO of Dispatch, a wealthtech platform streamlining AI-ready client data infrastructure for financial advisors, raised $18M in Series A funding led by Brewer Lane Ventures.
Alyx van der Vorm, Founder & CEO of Clyx, a social platform tackling loneliness by helping people find and attend events together, raised $14M in Series A funding led by Blitzscaling Ventures.
Michal Lupu, Co-Founder & CEO of Blocks, a no-code AI platform enabling professionals to build custom workflows and intelligent AI agents, raised $10M in seed funding led by monday.com.
Sylvie Menezo, Founder & CTO of Scintil Photonics, a France-based integrated photonics company developing high-bandwidth, low-latency optical circuits for AI infrastructure, raised $58M in Series B funding led by Yotta Capital Partners and NGP Capital.
Noel Pugh, Co-Founder & CEO of Lōvu Health, a digital maternal health platform providing continuous and connected care from conception through postpartum, raised $8M in Series A funding led by SJF Ventures.
Lydia Mapstone (CEO), Sioned Jones (COO), and Tara O’Driscoll (CTO), Co-Founders of BoobyBiome, a London-based biotech startup developing breast milk microbiome innovations to improve infant health, raised £2.5M in seed funding led by Empirical Ventures.
🌎 Earth Brands is hiring interns for Head Ambassador, Graphic Design, HR, and Software Engineering roles to tackle the $30B single-use plastic food service industry.
🎤 Known is hiring Backend, AI/ML, and Fullstack Engineers in SF to build its voice AI matchmaker that listens, understands, and connects people to meet IRL.
📦 A stealth YC- and GC-backed supply chain AI startup is hiring a Founder Associate Intern in NYC to work on go-to-market, hiring, and company building alongside the founding team. Reach out to us if interested.
📊 BREEGA is hiring VC Analyst Interns (6 months, start 2026) in Paris 🇫🇷 and London 🇬🇧 to join its investment team, meet founders, and gain hands-on experience in startups & venture capital.
📡 Meter is hiring for Partner Events Marketing and Field Marketing & Events to build high-impact events for its internet infrastructure platform.
📈 Kalshi is hiring for Growth Engineers, Social Media & Content Creators, Marketing Ops, Events & Swag, and more to scale their prediction markets platform.
🤖 Fundamental Research Labs is hiring Technical Interns (Menlo Park, on-site, rolling) to work on autonomous agents, ML, and product infrastructure
👩💻 Daniela Andrade dropped a curated list of 15+ recently funded, female-founded startups actively hiring for women seeking roles at high growth, female-founded startups!
💁♀️ Teli matches and introduces young talent to founders at top early-stage startups & SMBs. Apply to join our talent pool!
TIME named Tejasvi Manoj its Kid of the Year — the Girls Who Code alum built Shield Seniors to help older Americans spot and report online scams, a project inspired after her grandfather nearly fell victim to fraud.
HBS alums Shivangi Khanna and Sophie Jewsbury unveiled Krida, their AI intelligence layer for commercial lending that automates pre-underwriting tasks so bankers can focus on relationships — helping community banks cut loan cycle times and strengthen client ties.
Lea Burbidge Izquierdo, Co-Founder of Puppy Sphere, pushed back on the “hot girl founder” pressure, noting her 8-figure startup journey looked less like glossy matcha shots and more like Red Bulls for breakfast, crying off-camera, and greasy-haired errands — urging founders to show up without the filter.
a16z shared new benchmarks for AI-native office apps — finding that vertical specialists like Gamma, Manus, and Mem still outperform in slides, spreadsheets, and notes, but generalists like Claude and Comet are rapidly catching up as horizontals and verticals converge.
Rana el Kaliouby (General Partner of Blue Tulip Ventures) argued that memory is AI’s next big moat — enabling retention, personalization, and proactivity — but stressed that AI should mirror human memory by forgetting, prioritizing, and adapting rather than storing everything.
Airu Weng, Co-Founder of Outliers House, launched a Gen-Z founder house where everyone from biotech baddies to Zyn-fueled fintech bros to all-night creator DJs locks in for 7 days to turn wild ideas into pitch-ready MVPs.
Alik Christianian introduced Rewrite, a fertility startup that uses nutrigenetics, custom biomarkers, and behavioral science to give couples personalized paths to improve fertility and pregnancy health outcomes.
Priya Khandelwal (Co-Founder of Nixo, YC S25) shared how the teleprompter froze mid–Demo Day — forcing her to recover on the spot and prove that composure under pressure is a founder’s real superpower.
Sara Blakely turned $5,000 in savings and a scrappy pantyhose hack into Spanx — a $1.2B empire that made her the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire. She later joined the Giving Pledge and continues backing women entrepreneurs while building her second company, Sneex.
Amanda Zhu announced Recall.ai’s new Desktop Recording SDK, which lets developers embed meeting recording directly into apps without bots, delivering transcripts, speaker names, and metadata.
September 13 | 🚀 Building Delve: From MIT Dorm to $300M (Cambridge, MA)
September 15 | 🤝 Pillar VC NYC Co-founder Match Event (NYC)
September 16 | 🍵 Gen Z NYC Founder & Creator Mixer (NYC)
September 17 | 🏃♀️ WSCA Run Club (Amsterdam)
September 19 | ☕ Austin Female Founders & Friends Coffee (Austin)
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