Coffee & Career Transitions NYC: Tech & Startups Edition
Are you an engineer, product manager, or technical professional recently impacted by a layoff or just searching for your next opportunity? Let's connect over coffee.
For our 6th event, we're putting extra focus on hiring. I'm excited to co-host with 645 Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Startups from their portfolio that are actively hiring will be joining us.
You'll also get to meet others navigating the same search: share experiences, swap insights, and cheer each other on along the way.
Who should join
Engineers, product managers, and anyone with a technical background who's between roles or figuring out what's next. Folks from other backgrounds are welcome too — just note that the startups' open roles lean more technical.
Format
We'll ring a bell every 10 minutes so you can exchange info and meet a new group of people. Coffee and light bites provided!
A couple notes:
If your plans change and you can't make it, please cancel your registration so someone else can grab the spot.
I'll be taking a few photos for LinkedIn. If you'd rather not be in them, just let me know when you arrive.
645 Portfolio Spotlights
Edge: Edge is building intelligence and risk infrastructure for commodity markets. Their AI-native platform helps Fortune 500 enterprises understand and manage more than $200B of aggregate commodity exposure, while their CFTC-licensed risk-transfer business, backed by $100M of A+ rated capacity, allows customers to directly transfer commodity risk. Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers.
ReflexAI: ReflexAI is building the operating system for conversation performance. Its platform pairs hyper-realistic AI training simulations with intelligent QA so frontline teams enter high-stakes conversations with confidence. The tools work in 25 languages and are used by crisis call centers, healthcare organizations, and sales teams alike. View open roles here.
Clerq: Clerq allows high-ticket merchants to accept payments directly from customer bank accounts at a fraction of traditional processing costs. The platform improves conversion rates and reduces reliance on checks and wire transfers for large-value transactions. View open roles here.
Ellis: Ellis is an AI-powered intelligence and operations platform for private credit fund managers, built to absorb the repetitive, high-pain workflows that consume GP teams — reconciling fund admin, GL, and loan tape data into one trusted book, then turning it into real-time fund performance, LP economics, and board-ready reporting on demand. View open roles here.
AIVA: AIVA is an AI agent that hotels & resorts deploy over WhatsApp, SMS and voice to sell the right ancillary offer at the right moment of each stay, measured as holdout-controlled incremental revenue. It also captures and routes guest issues without adding work for staff, and every conversation compounds into a record of guest interactions no incumbent holds. Hiring Data Engineers and ML Platform Engineers.
Kickoff: Kickoff is redefining fitness and preventive healthcare by offering the first platform that makes personal training and nutrition coaching available through health insurance. By pairing compassionate, human-centered coaching with AI-powered guidance, the company helps deliver increasingly effective care and supports people in living healthier, happier, longer lives. View open roles here.
Sequence: Sequence is building the financial infrastructure behind fast-growing companies like Cognition, incident.io and MoonPay. Its AI-powered platform turns complex contracts and product usage into revenue, processing over $1B in annual invoice volume. Hiring Product Engineers in New York and London - view open roles here.