19 high-confidence founding AE and GTM openings at tier-1-backed startups, all surfaced within the last two months

Asked (summary):
Which companies backed by tier-1 VCs — Founders Fund, Accel, Sequoia, Benchmark and peers — have posted a founding AE or founding GTM role, ideally in the last two months?

A live-web scan on 2026-09-11 surfaced 41 candidate companies with a founding or first AE / GTM / sales-adjacent role carrying a date signal from 2026-07-11 onward and a named prominent investor. An independent funding-source pass cross-checked 29 of them; those 29 form the shortlist below (19 high confidence, 10 flagged for review), with date signals from 2026-07-28 to 2026-09-10. Roles without explicit founding or first language were excluded from the shortlist.

The shortlist: 29 cross-checked openings, newest first
High confidence = title is explicitly founding/first and the funding source visibly concerns the same company. Review = generic name, mismatched source, or implausible funding — verify before outreach. Faded rows are review-flagged.
Role
Investor
Geography
Confidence
No openings match these filters.
Poetic pairs the freshest signal with the biggest recent round on the shortlist — a Founding GTM Lead posted amid a $50M Series A (June 2026) from Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins and OpenAI. builtinsf.com
Lightspeed appears behind 7 of the 29 shortlisted companies — more than any other tier-1 firm — including Lightfield, Raindrop, Condukt and Truth Systems. builtinsf.com
Sable's Founding AE opening sits right on top of a $45M round dated 2026-07-16 (Sequoia, 8VC) — a five-week gap between money in and first sales hire. seedtable.com
Geography is concentrated: 11 of the 29 shortlist openings sit in the San Francisco Bay Area and 7 in New York; London (2), Berlin (2) and Tokyo (1) carry most of the rest. jobs.mmc.vc

Methodology and verification

The date shown is a recency signal — the best date visible on the job, listing, or search page. It can be a posting date, a page publication date, or a recent update/index signal; it establishes that the opening surfaced inside the requested two-month window but is not always the original posting date. Treat every row as a recruiting lead and confirm the application is still active before outreach. Semantic search can confuse companies with generic names (e.g. Bridge, Flint, Opus, Titan); those cross-checks are flagged "review" where the funding source does not visibly identify the same company or the extracted funding looks inconsistent. No compensation or exact posting dates are stated because none were in the data.

Appendix: broader and ambiguous leads

9 further founding/first-titled leads from the broad 41-company scan that lacked an independent funding cross-check. Verify investors and status from the job link before use. Three additional scan rows (Concourse, Gumloop, XBOW) were excluded for lacking explicit founding/first titles.

CompanyRoleLocationSignalTier-1 investors namedFunding (as extracted)Job link

Method: live-web scan of job boards, VC talent pages and startup newsletters on 2026-09-11 for founding/first AE, GTM, sales, BD, commercial and revenue-operations roles with a named prominent investor and a date signal from 2026-07-11 onward; 41 candidate rows, of which 29 gained an independent funding-source cross-check and form the shortlist. Dates are page recency signals, not guaranteed posting dates; funding figures are as extracted from source pages and unverified. Ordinary (non-founding) AE/BDR titles and duplicate scan rows were cut.

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