Marct AI 5/25 - Vax/NLP, Co w/ Snoop Dogg, Retail Marketplaces, Sequoia's new AI list, and more!

Welcome to Marct AI edition #4, an exclusive/curated email thread for a first-look at some exciting AI-related startup opportunities + bonus gigs.

I'll put some brief thoughts with each opportunity in italics (look for AK's thoughts) on why I decided to include it/what makes it interesting compared to the thousands of other postings on the interweb. Opportunities are full-time unless indicated otherwise. Still experimenting with the format, style, and organization so expect to see some changes.

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Full-time and Internships:

Faire - Data Science Intern: online wholesale marketplace for local retail.

AK's thoughts: underrated and untapped AI opportunities in retail/cpg; level the playing field and help local shops and boutiques curate products and compete with big box; three engineering problem areas: personalization (recommendation, ranking, search), growth & experimentation, marketplace optimization & underwriting.

Lily AI - ML Scientist, ML Engineer, ML Engineering Manager, Data Analysts, Principal SW Engineer: relevant shopping experiences.

AK's thoughts: staying on the theme of retail; auto-tagging rich product attributes, extract and predict emotional context for a personalized experience; women and immigrant-founded; concrete way of solving the paradox of choice with AI (a problem so prevalent in this century); customer-first culture to solve deeply human problem.

Pngme - Data Engineer, Data Scientist, ML Engineer: unified financial data API for Africa.

AK's thoughts: Continental and global distribution of wealth; unique approach to financial data innovations like synthetic credit scores based on billpay+p2p transactions; API core to empowering developers and banks to unlock access for literally billions of people.

Copy.ai - Any and all internships and ft roles: faster, fresher, better copy.

AK's thoughts: leading startup applying GPT-3 (language model); multiple interesting use-cases including marketing, blogging, fiction writing; 100k+ signups and solid progress towards product-market fit; creative problem with less absolute right/wrong answers and more flexibility.

Cameo - Talent Analyst: personalized video feat. your favourite stars.

AK's thoughts: create magical moments for fans by connecting them with their favourite talent; consumer-centric marketplace; opportunities to connect with celebrities e.g. Snoop Dogg; best in class workplace (rated by LinkedIn, Forbes, Fast Co); make decisions grounded in business implications and customer experience like pricing, onboarding priorization, happiness with both unstructured and structured datasets.

Misc, Random, Interesting Opportunities:

Techstars - Finance & Investment Data Intern: seed-stage accelerator.

Unshackled Ventures - Head of Community: investing in early-stage immigrants from day zero. 

Full-disclosure: I'm a Unshackled Fellow, so I'm obviously biased, but the team is very down-to-earth team and values-driven. I'd highly recommend working here:)

Summer Internship for Claremont College students (NLP, ML, Vaccination Sentiment Analysis): 

Respond directly to this email, or email [email protected] with your resume if you are interested in a warm intro to set up an interview right away this week!

Retool is still hiring two interns this summer (replugging this excellent opportunity from two weeks ago)

This is a fast-growing startup backed by Sequoia and some top angels like Elad Gil, Daniel Gross, Patrick and John Collision, and Nat Friedman. They are looking for 1. deployment engineering intern 2. software+pm intern, and full-time technical talent! Reach out to [email protected] directly with your resume. [Mention Alex Ker as referral]

If you've read this far, here is are interesting list: Sequoia recently came out AI 50 companies to watch (some of my favourites are Clari, Abnormal Security, Databricks, Gretel, Ironclad, Scale...but honestly can't list it all). I'd be curious to hear which company is your favourite why.

anyways, thanks for reading! let me know what you liked/didn’t, what you want to see, and if you do end up applying to something here, by emailing me at [email protected] :)

Cheers,

A.K.