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Hello YoungTech!

Welcome to the first ever YoungTech Review. First off, thank you for being an active member of our growing community. It was great to see some of you last night at the Fireside event! For those of you that missed it, check out this linkedin post for a recap.

In an effort to improve the value that we can provide to our members, we'll be sending out an update like this one ~once/month. If you'd like to be featured in our member spotlight, have some exciting news to share, or wish to include your job posting, don't hesitate to reach out!

Member Spotlight:

Caleb John, CEO & Co-Founder - Pongo

A Seattle native, Caleb is one of the original members of YoungTech Seattle.

While still in highschool, Caleb founded his first company, Cedar Robotics, developing robot waiters for restaurants. He was featured in TechCrunch at age 16 for his remarkable work in robotics (you can check out his video interview here). He later joined Anduril to work on AI infrastructure for video retrieval, deploying software critical to national security for the US and its allies.

Following his tenure at Anduril, Caleb returned to the startup world to pursue building a new company, Pongo.

Pongo was accepted to Techstars Seattle in 2022 and, after a sizable pivot in mid 2023, has relaunched with great success in the AI knowledge retrieval space. They’ve developed a groundbreaking Semantic Filter technology which vastly improves accuracy while reducing cost for RAG-based AI applications.

News From The Community:

• Pongo featured in Cerebral Valley - Read the full article here

• Nowadays featured in Skift Meetings - Read the full article here

• Terrakotta successfully raises a $3M Seed Round led by 1984 Ventures to build out their AI voice platform for phone-first sales teams

• Outbound Aerospace raises $500k from Antler to build out a prototype for their 250 passenger blended wing plane.

• Jenna Winocur accepted to Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Job Openings in the Network:

MathGPT is hiring for two roles!

YoungTech Contact - Nour Gajial

• Check out this link for an application form

  • Full Stack Developer (Familiar with React, TypeScript, Next.js, and/or React Native)

  • LLM Engineer (Comfortable w/ Python, Experience prompting different LLMs, & Experimented e/ system prompts + RAG systems)

Aurelian is hiring a Founding Software Engineer

YoungTech Contact - Max Keenan

• Check out this link for the full description and application

Okta is hiring a Senior ML Engineer

YoungTech Contact - Paulo Nascimento

• Check out this link for the full description and application

Standard Metrics is hiring for their Data Ops team

YoungTech Contact - Ethan Finkle

• Check out this link for the full description and application

Upcoming Events:

• July 8th - Deep Dive: Life of a VC Associate w/ FUSE Associate Team

• July 30th - Deep Dive: Making The Leap w/ A16z, Menlo Ventures, & Madrona: RSVP HERE

• September 4th - Founder/Funder Fireside w/ Graham & Walker

Thank you for reading.

Until next time.