Business Development @ThirstySprout. Helping AI, Fintech, and Healthcare companies hire top-tier engineering talent fast.

Hey there, thanks for stopping by!

Just a quick bit about me:

I'm Nawal, and I'm on a mission to be the best at Relationship Building and Sales🚀

Currently, I'm working at ThirstySprout and Homebase, where I am responsible for building and maintaining relationships, responsible for doing constant follow-ups to keep them on our radar and eventually turning them into a customer, Why? Because at ThirstySprout, we help companies build top engineering teams that will blow their socks off! 💥

I started my online and earning journey about 2.5 years ago, starting as a data entry guy (yeah, I was scrapping researched data from different websites and job boards for cold outreach campaigns!). Let me tell you, the data I've scrapped has generated some serious leads for our company! 💪. 

This developed my interest in sales and then I moved on to learning and pursuing relationship building, learned how to make and maintain relationships, how to generate warm and how to keep following up, not in a salesy way.

I'm all about constantly improving and testing new strategies. AB testing everything, implementing what works, and tossing out what doesn't. It's a wild ride, but loving it 🎢

If you're looking to build top engineering teams and want to see some serious results, shoot me a DM or email me at nawal@thirstysprout.io. I'd love to chat and show you how ThirstySprout can help you crush it

We are already working with Intuit, Meta, T-Mobile, Retell AI and many high-growth startups. Let's connect and make some magic happen ✨

Also, visit thehomebase.ai for insights that we are sharing on how founders are building game-changing companies leveraging AI.

Yours's truly
Nawal

For anyone job-hunting in AI startups or looking to build strong connections with founders.

Here is a list of 15 AI Agent companies to automate everything from logistics and compliance to DevOps, security, and customer interactions. (Some are even hiring)

Spot AI founded by Rish Gupta - AI platform that turns cameras into video agents.

Exaforce founded by Ankur Singla - Cybersecurity company streamlining security and operations with Agentic AI.

Onyx AI founded by Chris Weaver - Research, create, and automate with LLMs.

Maisa founded by David Villalon - Agentic automation platform that boosts AI and LLM performance.

DroneDeploy founded by Mike Winn - AI-powered reality capture with drones, robots, and 360° cameras.

MiniMax founded by Yeyi Yun - Multimodal AI models for text, audio, image, video, and music.

Credo AI founded by Navrina Singh - AI governance platform for automated risk and compliance.

Ketryx founded by Erez Kaminski - AI compliance platform that automates documentation and workflows.

Basis founded by Matt Harpe - AI agents that for automating accounting workflows.

Zenity founded by Michael Bargury - AI agents across SaaS, cloud, and endpoints.

OffDeal founded by Alston Lin - AI-native investment bank for buying and selling small businesses.

Alpic founded by Pierre-Louis Theron - All-in-one cloud platform to make products AI-native.

Pallet founded by Sushanth Raman - AI tools to automate logistics for carriers, 3PLs, brokers, and shippers.

Parloa founded by Malte Kosub - AI platform for automating customer interactions.

Opsera founded by Kumar C.  - AI DevOps platform that automates software delivery.

Please drop a like if you like this list, and follow me for curated lists of fast-growing AI startups and founder stories.

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Happy New Year, and cheers to 2026 

For anyone job-hunting in AI startups or building strong founder connections, here are 15 AI startups that raised seed/pre-seed funding recently. (Some are even hiring engineers)

mimic founded by Elvis Nava - AI and robotics to automate tedious tasks across industries. (few open roles)

Bindwell founded by Navvye Anand - Biotech company that uses AI to develop safer pesticides. (hiring for few roles)

PoobahAI founded by Mant Hawkins - AI-powered tools designed to simplify the creation of Web3 projects. 

Polygraf AI founded by Yagub Rahimov - AI security company with locally deployed, explainable, and auditable Small Language Models. (hiring for various engineering role)

Inception founded by Stefano Ermon - Develops diffusion LLMs for low-latency use cases. (hiring for engineering and marketing role)

Digs founded by Ryan Fink - AI-powered platform for pre-construction planning, docs, and handover. 

SportAI founded by Lauren Pedersen - AI-Driven Technique Analysis Solutions for Sports Businesses

Tenzai founded by Pavel Gurvich - Empowers organisations to unlock AI’s potential through accessible solutions. 

Theo Ai founded by Patrick Ip - Platform that predicts legal dispute outcomes using AI. 

GitLaw founded by Nick Holzherr - AI that simplifies legal work. (4 engineering open roles)

Ruli founded by Bryan Lee - AI for in-house counsel to boost efficiency and collaboration. (few open roles) 

Uare.ai founded by Robert LoCascio - Individual AI for creativity, mentorship, and smart decisions. (hiring for various roles)

@Orion founded by Rahul Thayil - AI-powered threat intel for risk teams. 

Keeyu founded by Jevon Le Roux - AI platform for e-commerce that fixes order issues preemptively.

Barker founded by Madelaine D'Angelo - AI-backed platform that warranties alt asset prices and covers losses.

Hope everyone’s having a strong start to the year, let’s crush our 2026 goals and resolutions 💪🚀

Career pages links are in the comments!

Looking to join an AI Startup?

Here is a list of 15 AI Startups that are actively hiring and need top talent like you!

EliseAI - Builds conversational AI agents that automate communication and admin tasks for housing and healthcare. (various open roles)

You.com - AI productivity platform with customizable agents for smarter, measurable knowledge work. (various open roles)

Pulley - Equity management platform for high-growth startups. (various open roles in every department)

Superpower - A health super-app that turns biomarker data into personalized longevity plans. (various open roles)

Mintlify - Helps teams build and maintain smart, interactive developer docs with AI. (various open roles)

Matic - Simplifies healthcare billing from care to payment, cutting burnout and boosting accuracy. (hiring for various roles)

LiveKit - Open source and cloud tools for building voice, video, and AI agents. (Engineering, sales, Marketing open roles)

Stoke Space - Space rocket manufacturing company building 100% reusable rockets (various open roles in every department)
 
Warp - Ship agent-generated code all the way from prompt to production (Engineering, Product, Marketing open roles)

Loyal - Developing the first drugs to extend dogs' healthspan and lifespan. (various open roles)

Amigo - Partners with clinical teams to build trustworthy custom AI agents for patient care. (various open roles)

Lorikeet - AI agents across voice, chat, and email to help complex businesses deliver concierge-level customer support.

Finix - A payment processor for easy, cost-effective money movement and revenue growth. (various open roles)

Pallet - AI to streamline supply chains by handling tasks with high accuracy at a lower cost. (various open roles)

AssemblyAI - Speech AI company building advanced models to transcribe and understand speech. (Hiring for various Engineering and Research roles)

These companies are solving problems with AI and need top talent like you. Career page links are available in the comments!

If you are hiring, please mention your company in the comments and follow me for curated lists of fast-growing AI startups.

For anyone job-hunting in AI startups or looking to build strong connections with founders.

Here is a list of 15 companies redefining industries with AI agents, tackling everything from churn prediction and e-commerce challenges to breakthroughs in healthcare, finance, business operations, and retail.

OptAI Inc. founded by Jaeho Lee - On-Device AI Optimization on Any Hardware.

Mbodi AI founded by Xavier (Tianhao) Chi - Embodied AI Platform for Robotics. 

Rupert AI founded by Ziv Wangenheim - AI agent that predicts churn or upsell and triggers workflows for retention and growth.

Keeyu - founded by Jevon Le Roux- AI agent that helps e-commerce brands proactively resolve order issues.

Vida Global founded by Brandon Robinson - AI voice and messaging agents for individuals, businesses, and developers.

Rosie AI founded by Dennis Jiang - AI agent and on-call expert business analyst for Excel modeling.

MetaBrain Labs Inc. founded by Alexandrea Day - Sensor AI agents for real-time decisions in healthcare, research, and IoT.

Sorcerics founded by Hyeonjong Ryu - AI makes home robots accessible, helping people live more productively.

Inventive founded by Erik Kuld - AI agent platform that helps companies build smarter products.

Questera founded by Shubham Nigam - AI agent workforce that supports growth and lifecycle marketers.

CloseBot founded by Bryce DeCora 🤖 - Conversational AI Agent Builder Platform.

TopSchool.ai founded by Joseph Telfer - Personalized learning AI for every teacher and student in the world.

Zeabur founded by Yuanlin Lin - DevOps AI Agent for Vibe Coders.

Cimba.ai founded by Subrata (Subu) Biswas - Adaptive AI infrastructure for custom agents that optimize business operations.

FooSpace Co. founded by Jason Wang - Pioneer in unmanned commerce and shapes the future of retail.

Please drop a like if you like this list, and follow me for curated lists of fast-growing AI startups and founder stories.

Looking to join an AI Startup?

Here is a list of 15 AI Startups that are actively hiring and need top talent like you!

Serval - AI that automates help desk tasks. (open roles in every department)

Model ML - AI that automates finance workflows for faster deals and modeling. (open roles in every department)

Gradial - Enterprise AI agents for automating content workflows. (open roles in every department)

Momentum.io - AI agents to help your GTM team close more deals. (hiring for VP of Finance)

Credo AI - AI governance platform helping enterprises scale AI responsibly. (hiring for various roles)

Norm Ai - AI agent that automates legal and compliance work. (open roles in every department)

Kilo Code - All-in-one agentic engineering platform for developers. (Hiring for community builder, Engineer and marketing)

Simular - Personalized AI that understands and acts on your devices. (hiring for marketing, engineering and product roles)

Synthflow AI - no-code AI voice assistants that handle a variety of tasks. (Engineering and GTM roles open)

Zania - Autonomous AI agents for Security Risk and Compliance (various engineering and product roles)

Raindrop - A monitoring platform for AI agents. (various engineering roles)

Imbue - A research lab building foundation models for AI agents. (various open roles)

Maisa - An agentic automation platform that boosts AI and LLM performance. (various open roles)

Arcade.dev - AI Agents securely connect to APIs, data, and other systems. (Hiring for Marketing and Engineering roles)

Factory - AI software agents automating complex development tasks and workflows. (Various engineering roles open)

These companies are solving problems with AI and need top talent like you. Career page links are available in the comments!

If you are hiring, please mention your company in the comments and follow me for curated lists of fast-growing AI startups.

Looking to join an AI Startup?

Here is a fresh list of 15 AI companies (AI, Blockchain, Health care, AI agents, Fintech, and more) that are actively hiring and need top talent like you!

TwelveLabs - Video understanding API to search, analyze, and extract insights from video content. (various open roles in every department)

Engine - Corporate travel management platform to book and manage business trips. (various open roles in every department)

Lithic - APIs to issue and process payment cards. (various open roles)

Hyperbolic - On-demand GPUs and AI inference to run AI models. (hiring for 2 engineering roles)

GreenLite - AI to speed up building permits. (various open roles in every department)

Lila Sciences - AI-driven autonomous labs for scientific discovery. (various open roles especially in tech roles)

Posh - AI voice and chat assistants for banks and credit unions. (Hiring for Sr. Accountant and Software Engineer)

Radiant - Portable nuclear microreactors for clean, reliable power. (various open roles)

PhysicsX - AI tools for engineering simulation and optimization. (various open roles especially in egineering)

fal - Serverless GPUs and APIs to run and deploy generative AI models. (various engineering maketing and Sales roles)

Wingspan - automates contractor payments and 1099 compliance. (various open roles in every department)

TRM Labs - Offers blockchain intelligence for crypto compliance and investigations. (various open roles)

Tines - Workflow automation platform for security and IT teams. (various open roles in every department)

FLORA - AI workflow tool for creating images and video. (various open roles in every department)

Tandem Health - AI scribe that creates clinical notes from visits. (open roles in engineering, medical and operation roles)

These companies are solving problems with AI and need top talent like you. Career page links are available in the comments!

If you are hiring, please mention your company in the comments and follow me for weekly curated lists of fast-growing AI startups.

Hiring global talent shouldn't mean drowning in paperwork.

Every founder knows the frustration: you find the perfect candidate, only for the visa sponsorship process to create months of delays and headaches.

Rishabh Sambare and Haokun Qin, founders of the YC-backed startup Gale (YC W25), experienced this firsthand as immigrants. In our latest Homebase AI interview, they shared how they’re fixing this broken system with a smarter, AI-powered approach.

Here’s how they’re turning visa chaos into a clear workflow:

AI Does the Heavy Lifting:

Gale uses AI to automate the tedious, time-consuming parts of the process, like filling out repetitive government forms and drafting standard documents. This cuts down the manual work that traditionally slows everything down.

Lawyers Focus on Strategy, Not Paperwork:

This doesn’t replace lawyers; it makes them more effective. By handling the routine tasks, AI frees up licensed immigration attorneys to focus on legal strategy, complex cases, and providing clients with crucial reassurance and final review.

Built for Compliance and Certainty:

The platform is designed to manage the entire lifecycle, including ongoing compliance requirements after a visa is approved. This helps startups avoid costly mistakes and provides much-needed predictability in a complex system.

I-n highly regulated fields like immigration, the future is a partnership. AI manages the predictable workflow and data, while human experts apply irreplaceable judgment where it matters most.

For the full playbook on modernizing this essential process, watch our complete conversation with Gale’s founders. Link in the comments.

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