the z list irl 💥🧿✨👩🏻‍💻 #44

curated events, resources, startup jobs, & more

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If you’re in Boston, Philadelphia, or Miami reply to this email! Hosting events in each city all of May leading up to NY Tech Week.

april

wednesday 4/17

wednesday 5/1 SF
super excited to be hosting my first two SF events at Headline’s offices :)

tuesday 5/7

May & June

Founder Feature: Cory at Parallel

the TLDR on Cory: Musician, turned designer, turned founder. Currently lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with prior stints designing & building at a lot of startups. Passionate about helping people realize their potential & match with companies doing work that makes a difference. 

What is Parallel? Parallel is the all-in-one hiring operating system for early-stage teams. Helping companies match with better talent & hire more efficiently.

Fundraising advice for founders? Simplify your story to its core essence and be bold about your vision. The goal is to find the right partners for you & your business, not to seek validation through fundraising. 

Advice for VCs investing in founders? Show that you genuinely understand the nuances of the business. Facilitate more casual meetings jamming on product ideas / ideating on early strategy vs formal pitches. Trust can be built fast with listening and thoughtful advice before any deal is on the table. Easy to tweet, rare in practice. 

Quick note from Zehra: If you are using notion, a wonky Google form, Linkedin Apply, or a clunky ATS for job management - Parallel can help you convert better talent & make the process 10x more efficient. It takes under 10 minutes to get started with a 14-day free trial. Let it rip.

Jobs (investor, operator, founding opportunities)

The Z List job drop, powered by Parallel.

Bezel -  Bezel is an authenticated luxury watch marketplace disrupting the $20B secondary market with technology from collectors and enthusiasts.

Doorlist -  DoorList is a social platform for campus events and group communication, enabling users to manage social calendars and facilitating over 1 million event invites.

Noetica AI AI-powered knowledge extraction from complex financial documents.Noetica AI is a software platform that benchmarks corporate debt and other complex financial document.

People Function -  HR partner for scaling startups. Building people operations from early to growth stage.

  • HR administrator at Honest networks - Apply direct

  • VP of quality and risk adjustment at Yuvo Health - Apply direct

  • Project manager & administrator support associate at Honest networks - Apply direct

Pattern - Pattern designs modern brands, eCommerce experiences, products & platforms. We help founders, disruptors and visionaries find their place at the intersection of culture, community & commerce.

Friends of Parallel & Zehra

Doola - Start your US business from anywhere and keep it 100% compliant.
✨ Zehra’s portfolio company ✨ 

Breezi - Breezi is a next-gen consumer internet startup based in NY. On Breezi, you can create, share and discover lists about your life; from your current thoughts, half-baked ideas, advice and recs, quirks, memories and more.

Youthforia - At Youthforia, we believe that makeup is an extension of your skincare - and we’re bringing innovation into the market with makeup you can sleep in, and makeup formulas that have never been done before. We love the mix of elevated playfulness, and high quality innovative products. A dose of fun without compromising on performance, or skin health.

Tiktok - Short form video network is hiring at Fashion and Luxury department

AC Momento - track of all of the games you've ever been to and see your lifetime stats summary.

Want to get your jobs featured on the Z List? Sign up for the Parallel waitlist here.

Want to meet more amazing founders?

Mercury recently launched Investor Connect - a platform to connect active investors to vetted, high quality, thesis-relevant founders.

Once approved to join, you’ll select your investment criteria in your portal. You’ll receive a curated, monthly drop of relevant fundraising founders, all pre-qualified by a panel of volunteer investors. 

  • Request to join the hundreds of investors already finding their next investments here. 

  • Learn more about Investor Connect here.

The Sports-Biz: Events & Opportunities

Are you a sports investor/working with athletes & sports teams? I’d love to invite you to a series of events (sit-down dinners, curated happy hours, etc.) that I’m hosting in June as the ICC World Cup makes its way to NYC. 

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