Mid-October Updates
Welcome back! And welcome to all of the new subscribers – looking forward to bringing you all our top events, news, and opportunities!
🎉 Exciting News from Members 🎉
Daniel Tian’s startup, Zingage, just announced a $12.5M Seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with support from TQ Ventures, South Park Commons, and WndrCo. Read more here!
This edition:
Top upcoming NYC events
NYCFC member news
Introducing: Founder opportunities (accelerators, residencies, pitches, etc.)
Introducing: Startup jobs board featuring top roles at our members’ companies
Introducing: Our first Founder Tech Stack featuring Daniel Tian, Co-Founder and CTO of Zingage (and a preview of his full member spotlight in our next newsletter!)
‼️ NYC Founders Club Applications due TONIGHT ‼️
We decided to extend our application deadline by 24 hours to accommodate those who just joined our newsletter! Seeking community-minded, venture-backed NYC founders for our November cohort – apply here by 11:59pm tonight to be considered.
Let’s get started! 🚀
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Founder Tech Stack: Daniel Tian,
Co-Founder and CTO of Zingage
Project & Customer Management
Linear – Project management / CRM
"Right now, our entire company is run on Linear. It's phenomenal. We use Linear for new employee onboarding. Every employee has a new project on Linear, and they can assign themselves on tickets. It's almost like our CRM as well. Each customer also gets their own project. And so yeah, we're big Linear fans. Their product is beautiful. And we try to just max out every use case they provide."
Marketing & Creative Tools
Clay & No-Code Tools – Marketing / creative tools
"We're big fans of Clay. They have really flexible solutions. We do a lot of experiments, right? So whether it's spinning up stuff with N8N all the way to using some of the chat-sharing models to generate marketing assets. I think we're pretty creative duct-taping together a lot of no-code tools."
Developer & Coding Tools
Cursor – Developer tool / coding assistant
"Yeah, I think on the coding side, we're pretty standard. We're using Cursor across the board. Cursor is definitely by far the number one tool."
Finance & Spend Management
Ramp – Finance / accounting
"You know, as a former Ramp employee, I obviously have to give Ramp a plug."
Communication & Collaboration
Slack – Communication / productivity
"We're pretty big on Slack, right? So like everything on Slack tends to have like an automation that links to one of our tech stack. You know, we try to like keep everything as centralized as possible."
Stay tuned for our full founder spotlight with Daniel in the next edition, where we’ll dive into Daniel’s journey with Zingage, including their creative early customer discovery tactics (hint: it involves doughnuts), the company’s pirate-inspired culture powering growth, and how he used Craigslist to "hack" their first conference.
Read about Daniel’s full tech stack here.
Coming Up 🔥
Events:
Startup Lean Coffee: Wed, Oct 22
Founder Breakfast: Thurs, Oct 23
Crain's & Tech: NYC: Tech Summit: Thurs, Oct 23rd
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, Oct 28th [members only]
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, Nov 11th [members only]
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, Nov 19th [members only]
Founder Opportunities:
NextNYC Checkwriters Pitch: application due Oct 29th
Robin Hood Catalyst Accelerator: application due Nov 21st
Gutter Capital Elbow Grease Accelerator: application due Nov 25th
Company Ventures Grand Central Tech Residency: rolling application
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Roles at NYCFC Companies 👩🏻💻
Each edition, we’ll showcase three of our members’ companies and their top open roles. Check out these roles:
Zingage is hiring a Head of Talent Engineering, a Strategic Finance Lead, Founding Engineers, and SWEs.
Saavy 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!
Thanks for tuning in!
– Aakash, Adam, Mike, and Jordan
P.S.
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