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Top startups have stayed private for longer than ever, leaving no way for everyday investors to participate in their growth.\nVentuals makes private markets public - enabling anyone to trade top private companies like OpenAI, SpaceX, Anthropic, and Stripe.\nWe’re building on Hyperliquid, and have had amazing testnet traction in the 2 months since launch, with ~10,000 weekly active traders and >1M cumulative trades, and zero marketing spend.\nOur seed round was led by Paradigm, with additional angels from Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Ethereum Foundation, Uniswap, and Flashbots.\nOur small, world-class team is mostly based in New York, and we often work out of a beautiful office in Soho with other early-stage Paradigm portfolio companies.\nAbout the role\nWe’re looking for a senior or staff-level engineer to join Ventuals ahead of our mainnet launch. 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