Opening Remarks
Hey all! It’s our last official newsletter of 2025… we couldn’t leave you all without some exciting updates.
News from NYCFC Members 🎉
Gregory Lemberskiy’s startup, MICSI, launched a new product, MICSI-PET, which makes PET imaging fast, anatomical, and scalable for Alzheimer’s care. Read more here!
Here’s what to expect this edition:
Events and Founder Opportunities
Roles at NYCFC companies
Let’s get started! 🚀
Founder Tech Stack: Jack Gardner, Founder and CEO of Kickoff
All-in-One Workspace & System of Record
Notion — Product, CRM, ATS, bug tracking, onboarding, company brain
“We use Notion for absolutely everything. It’s our bug ticketing, it’s our product Kanban, it’s our CRM and ATS for our coaching. We use it for absolutely everything and you'd be amazed how well you can configure it to all those cases.”
“We’ve tried all the fanciest ATSs, we’ve tried all the fanciest Kanbans, and Notion is better. More flexible for our specific needs.”
Data, Analytics & Internal Dashboards
Metabase — Analytics, dashboards, internal tools
“One important SaaS I didn’t mention was Metabase. We use Metabase for everything… It’s a data visualization software run by SQL and it powers our whole business.”
“We use it for V1 of almost everything — internally facing and a lot of things coach-facing — and don’t have to build it externally.”
Community, Communication & Real-Time Alerts
Slack — Coach community, incident alerts, team communication
“We have all our alerts in Slack. Anything that’s broken — if something breaks, we immediately see it.”
“Our thousands of coaches are all in Slack. That’s how we communicate with them. That’s how they have community.”
Read about Jack’s full tech stack here.
Coming Up 🔥
Events:
🗽 NYC Founders Club x The Varo Holiday Party: Thurs, Dec 18th [invite only]
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, Jan 13th [members only]
Sustainability as a System, Not a Slogan: Thurs, Jan 15th [member-hosted event]
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, Jan 21st [members only]
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, Jan 27th [members only]
🗽 NY(SKI): Founder & Friends Ski Retreat (Volume 2): Mon, Feb 2nd
Founder Opportunities:
Betaworks' Spring '26 AI Camp: Agent Systems: application due Dec 24th
Newlab Founder Fellowship: application due Dec 31st
🗽 = NYCFC Event
Subscribe to our Luma calendar here.
Email [email protected] to have us feature your event!
Roles at NYCFC Companies 👩🏻💻
Kickoff is hiring a BizOps Manager and Sr Software Engineer.
Stepful is hiring Engineers (Software, Growth, Product).
Supademo is hiring Senior Frontend Engineers.
Wyndly is hiring a Performance Marketing Lead.
Zingage is hiring a Head of Talent Engineering, a Strategic Finance Lead, Founding Engineers, and SWEs.
Savvy is hiring a Sr. Engineering Manager, Head of Customer Success, and Sr. Software Engineers.
Invoice Butler is hiring a Founding Engineer.
See you next month year!
Thanks for tuning in!
– Aakash, Adam, Mike, and Jordan
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