Help Wanted: Technology Startups Seek Sales, Marketing and Developer Talent
You’ve seen the headlines: Some big technology companies, Wall Street firms and venture-backed startups suffered layoffs in 2022. Indeed, confirmed job loss plans extended from Amazon.com to Salesforce.com to Goldman Sachs.
Moreover, numerous forward-looking indicators suggest employment will continue to weaken, according to Capital Market Outlook, a newsletter from Merrill — a Bank of America company.
Still, employment levels in the overall technology sector remain relatively healthy. Among the data points to keep in mind: Silicon Valley's unemployment rate rose only slightly to 2.3% in November 2023, according to Joint Venture Silicon Valley. Despite the small uptick, that Silicon Valley unemployment rate remains far below comparative figures for California (4.0%) and the overall United States unemployment rate (3.4%).
15 (Actually, 16) Technology Startups That Are Hiring
Jim Lippie, CEO, SaaS Alerts
Among the additional bright spots: Some technology startups continue to hire while closely managing revenue growth, cash burn rates and an overall path to profitability. The evidence: Poke around our portfolio of technology investments and you’ll find the following data points as of December 19, 2022:
Gary Pica Jr., VP of marketing, Rewst
Those technology startups have hired 1,505 employees so far, according to headcount estimates that Channel Angels compiled from LinkedIn.
Technology companies that we currently back are seeking to fill more than 150 additional positions, according to job posts from their websites and LinkedIn pages.
Among those in growth mode: SaaS Alerts in January of 2022 had 12 employees. Fast forward to January 2023, and the security company will have 38 employees, partly in thanks to the investment from Channel Angels, according to SaaS Alerts CEO Jim Lippie.
So who’s in hiring mode? Here’s a sampling of what we saw from many of our current investments:
Banzai (Seattle, Washington): Banzai’s software reach millions of users every year to help marketers drive more revenue through better events, webinars, content, and data. Help Wanted:. Customer Success Manager to focus on the success and growth of Banzai’s existing customers.
Brelyon (San Mateo, California): Brelyon is an MIT spin-off introducing the first-ever, headset-free virtual display for gaming and enterprise applications. Help Wanted: Multiple software and hardware engineer positions, along with supply chain experts.
Chattr (Tampa, Florida): Chattr’s AI-powered digital assistant manages the hourly hiring experience from engagement to offer. Help Wanted: The company is seeking a product marketing specialist in Tampa.
Client Book (Lehi, Utah): Client Book’s mobile-first solution personalizes experiences between customers and retailers, helping retail business owners, sales managers and sales associates to more deeply engage their customers. Help Wanted: The company is seeking sales development and account executives.
Evo Security (Austin, Texas): Evo Security is an Identity and Access Management (IAM) company focused exclusively on serving MSPs, MSSPs and their SMB and Mid-Market Customers with a Multi-factor Authentication (MFA), Single Sign On (SSO), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Elevated Access solution. Help Wanted: Evo Security is seeking senior developers and DevOps engineers.
Flexbase (San Francisco, California): Flexbase develops a finance super app that allows businesses to manage credit, banking, payments, and insurance. Help Wanted: Flexbase is seeking a senior brand designer & strategist.
Lumu Technologies (Doral, Florida): Lumu is a cybersecurity company that illuminates threats, attacks, and adversaries affecting enterprises worldwide. Using actionable intelligence, Lumu provides a radical way to secure networks by enhancing and augmenting existing defense capabilities established over the past 25 years. Help Wanted: Lumu is seeking sales development, software development and customer relationship management experts across multiple positions.
Magic (San Francisco, California): Through a combination of automation and active work, Magic tap into a network of vetted remote workers who handle tasks from virtual assistance and customer service to sales lead generation and scheduling across various team members—like magic. Help Wanted: Magic is seeking sales, marketing and HR professionals across multiple positions.
nOps (San Francisco, California): nOps helps customers and partners tame cloud complexity to ignite innovation. nOps provides an AI-powered SaaS solution that helps rapid-growth companies build, manage, and operate a well-architected AWS infrastructure that is secure, cost-optimized, reliable, efficient, and operationally excellent. Help Wanted: nOps is seeking DevOps and quality assurance engineers.
Ockam (San Francisco, California): Ockam empowers developers to build secure applications that can trust data-in-motion across complex, variable, and hostile networks. Help Wanted: The company is seeking product managers, sales engineers, business development managers and quite a few software engineers.
Rewst (Tampa, Florida): The company develops RPA (robotic process automation) software for MSPs in the SMB sector. Help Wanted: Reach out directly via email to hello@rewst.io, according to VP of Marketing Gary Pica Jr.
Ternary (San Francisco, California): Ternary develops a FinOps cloud cost optimization tool for Google Cloud. Help Wanted: The company is seeking product designers, managers and software engineers.
Trash Butler (Tampa, Florida): Trash Butler is a doorstep valet trash service designed for multi-family communities across 35 states nationwide. Help Wanted: Dozens of doorstep trash pickup positions are available.
xGen (New York, New York): XGen Ai empowers eCommerce teams to maximize their revenue performance by continuously learning, adapting, and tailoring every step of the path to purchase for the individual site visitor – all fully automated. Help Wanted: Senior front-end and UI/UX developers.
Zorus Technology (Norwalk, Connecticut): Zorus develops enterprise-grade cybersecurity — built exclusively for MSPs. Help Wanted: Account executive to serve the MSP channel; software engineer with a. passion for building front-end pages.
2u Laundry (Charlotte, North Carolina): 2U Laundry is a laundry and dry cleaning subscription service that includes free pickup and delivery, next business day turnaround, and more. Help Wanted: The company is seeking to fill multiple director-level positions and franchise-focused managers.
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Stay tuned. The list above may grow. We’re checking in with additional companies in our investment portfolio to see what’s brewing on the talent front. If you represent one of the companies in our investment portfolio and have additional thoughts to share about labor and hiring for 2023, please email me the details: Joe@ChannelAngels.com.