Startupathon

StartuPathon is our company's job portal for serious teams and serious builders - explore open roles, understand how we work, and apply through a calm, clear hiring experience.

Curated opportunitiesProduct, engineering, and moreClear and thoughtful hiring

The Playbook

Billion Dollar Playbook

Everything you need to know about building and leading a high-growth startup through Startupathon.

Open positions

Job openings

A snapshot of what we're hiring for. See the full list on our dedicated roles page - same cards, full detail.

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    How we hire

    • Clear job descriptions and realistic expectations from day one.
    • Conversations focused on impact, not puzzles for their own sake.
    • Timely updates - we respect your time as much as ours.

    Before you apply

    Save roles you like, prepare a concise impact story, and use the apply links on each card - they're ready to point at your ATS or email flow. Hiring managers review every application with the same care we'd want for ourselves.

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    Startupathon Success

    Work Smart, Win Big: Pro Tips from Swapnil Sharma

    CTO of Ovadrive shares how he won a Startupathon challenge and built a thriving startup.

    Built Startups · Past Projects

    Completed Startupathon Challenges

    People like you have cracked Startupathon challenges and are now leading thriving startups.

    16 startups launched

    Devisai

    Funded

    $62,000 initial funding

    Generate up to 20 meme tokens daily. Users vote, and the top-voted coin gets featured on pump.fun with their website, Twitter, and Telegram channel.

    Co-founder

    Naman Jain

    Ovadrive

    Funded

    $62,000 initial funding

    Ovadrive is designed to turn your phone into an assistant following you everywhere, learning all about your life and helping to utilize that.

    Co-founder

    Yash Rastogi

    FaceSearchAI

    Funded

    $62,000 initial funding

    Find anyone online with face recognition search engine. Search for people by photo and verify you are talking to the person they claim to be.

    Co-founder

    Adil Sameer

    Shorts.lol

    Funded

    $62,000 initial funding

    An AI platform that creates 15–60 sec story and music videos with instant scripts, multilingual voiceovers, auto-synced visuals, and music in minutes.

    Co-founder

    Haseeb Zaki

    Creatorship

    Funded

    $62,000 initial funding

    Helps brands supercharge influencer marketing with real-time insights, creator discovery, and competitor analysis powered by engagement data.

    Co-founders

    Urmalveer Singh, Rohit Tigga

    Career Accelerator

    Funded

    $62,000 initial funding

    Helps developers land top jobs faster with AI tools that optimize profiles, auto-apply to 100+ roles daily, streamline hiring, and provide targeted skill training.

    Co-founders

    Jatin Sharma, Ankit Sahal

    Communion App

    Funded

    $62,000 initial funding

    The Communion app unites diverse communities to share resources, connect, and support each other in one collaborative space.

    Co-founder

    Naveen Kumar Goud

    Startupathon

    Funded

    $62,000 initial funding

    Startupathon turns ideas into startups with challenge-based competitions, funding, and mentorship — 20+ success stories and counting.

    Co-founder

    Nayan Patil

    Candidate Stories

    Our Hiring Process: Shared Through Candidate Stories

    Hear directly from candidates who went through the Startupathon process and came out as founders.

    Mentor Network

    By getting accepted you unlock access to our elite founder network

    Join Persist and gain access to our 400+ millionaire and billionaire startup network.

    400+founders & investors
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    Cillian Leonowicz

    EY

    Director in Technology Consulting & Blockchain Lead

    Set up a Big 4's first global Blockchain Lab, managed some of the earliest PoCs in Europe and first "production" systems in the space.

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    Frank Wang

    Mask Network / Meson Network

    Transformative Work Lead, Mask Network · Co-Founder, Meson Network

    Co-founded Meson Network, bootstrapped to reach 2/3 of Akamai's bandwidth resources in 3 months.

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    Eric Hendrickus

    Central Capital Ventura

    Investments

    Mentor in SYNRGY (a fintech-focused accelerator) and 1000 Startup Digital, an accelerator backed by the Indonesian government.

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    Stefon Crawford

    General Motors Ventures

    VC Analyst

    Experienced investor responsible for identifying innovation within the private market for General Motors.

    You are just one Startupathon Challenge away from an exciting career as the founder of a company, with a full salary and ownership in what you build.