“Find me 20 Series A startups in the city of Seattle”
“Let's mix it in with seed raises above $2M”
“Let's now cross reference with folks who are hiring founding GTM team”
All 20 Seattle-area companies from the funding report (Series A, Seed and Pre-seed raises above $2M, Aug 2025 – Oct 2026) were scanned for live founding or early go-to-market hiring. Seven matched, with 12 open or actively recruited roles across seven independent job sources — no single URL backs more than one role. Checked as of 2026-10-08; roles close quickly, so verify on the application page.
Source confidence: first-party career/ATS page highest, then LinkedIn and job boards, then aggregators. Aurelian’s LinkedIn evidence is active recruiting via DM, not a standard requisition.
| Company | Role | Function | Location | Founding / early-team signal | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurelian | Account Executive | sales | Greater Seattle Area | “This is what the ground floor looks like. We're hiring a few A-players to start our Mid-Market team” | open — the role is currently open and accepting applications via DM | linkedin.com |
| Aurelian | Customer Success Manager - West | customer success | remote, based in the Pacific time zone and within 1 hour of a major airport | “This is an early-stage role, which means there’s no finished playbook waiting for you. You'll help build the processes, standards, and frameworks that define Customer Success at Aurelian.” | open Job board / aggregator | scoutify.com |
| Aurelian | Founding Account Executive (Multiple openings)Founding | sales | — | “Be one of the first sales team-members on Aurelian, running sales from first to last contact” | Posted May 27, 2026, 9:30 PM UTC Job board / aggregator | relomote.com |
| Avalanche Energy | Director, Business Development (Advanced Energy) | business development | Tukwila, WA | “Support the development of Avalanche’s federal business unit.” | accepting applications | linkedin.com |
| Avalanche Energy | Director, Business Development (Defense & Space) | business development | Tukwila, WA | “Help build Avalanche's Defense and Space business unit, including organizational design, operating cadence, staffing priorities, and a roadmap toward future P&L ownership.” | Open (posted 5 days ago) | linkedin.com |
| CopilotKit | Enterprise Account Executive | sales | Seattle, WA | “This is a unique opportunity to join as an early leader on one of the most complex and high-leverage surfaces in AI — with significant scope for technical, product, and leadership growth.” | open First-party career/ATS | copilotkit.ai |
| Endurance Energy | Commercialization Lead | sales | Seattle, WA | “you will help build the commercial organization required to scale Endurance into a world-class energy company” | currently open | linkedin.com |
| Nuance Labs | Head of Marketing | marketing | In-person in Seattle, five days a week | “Build the marketing function from the ground up” | currently open (active job posting accepting applications) Job board / aggregator | startup.jobs |
| SpangleAI | Enterprise Account Executive | sales | Bellevue, WA; Remote (Los Angeles, California, US); Remote (New York, New York, US) | “As our first Account Executive, you'll own enterprise sales end-to-end while working directly with the founding team” | currently open First-party career/ATS | ats.rippling.com |
| SpangleAI | Founding Customer Success LeadFounding | customer success | United States, Remote | “Founding Customer Success Lead” | open, accepting applications Job board / aggregator | relomote.com |
| SpangleAI | Founding Product Marketing LeadFounding | marketing | United States, Remote | “It's a founding product marketer who ships.” | accepting applications Job board / aggregator | relomote.com |
| Wild Zebra | Head of GTM | growth | Seattle, WA, USA | “build the company’s early consumer revenue engine” | currently open Job board / aggregator | mediabistro.com |
Companies without a listed role are not confirmed to be idle — no strong qualifying founding-GTM evidence was found for them in this scan.
Method: role-level data from a live-web hiring scan of all 20 Seattle Seed/Pre-seed/Series A companies in the prior funding report, checked as of 2026-10-08 — 12 open or actively recruited founding/early GTM roles at 7 companies, from 7 independent job hosts (career/ATS pages, LinkedIn, job boards, aggregators and one hiring-manager post); amounts are reported raise sizes in US$ millions. Investor lists and long descriptions are shortened for space; full funding rows and sources are linked per company. Avalanche Energy roles are in Tukwila, WA; SpangleAI roles include Bellevue or US-remote.