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Dataleap

Generative AI-powered market research platform

Founder's Associate

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
Business & StrategyBusiness Operations

About the job

Requirements
  • Demonstrated range, judgment, and relentless ownership through building something real, such as a company, project, or team from nothing.
  • Ability to execute independently with high agency and without a playbook.
  • Ability to operate as a generalist across sales, hiring, operations, and urgent problems while creating structure.
  • Strong work ethic and judgment about which work is worth doing.
  • Commitment to artificial intelligence tools and belief in AI employees.
  • Experience as a founder, early startup operator, or one of the first employees is specifically sought, while career pivoters are welcome if they can demonstrate strong execution.
Responsibilities
  • Own the most important and least-owned work, which changes week to week.
  • Drive sales and go-to-market execution, including outreach, pipeline follow-up, deal preparation, and converting momentum into closed customers.
  • Manage the systems, follow-ups, and coordination that support the founder's highest-priority work.
  • Source, screen, and help close candidates during hiring.
  • Research and execute high-stakes special projects that do not belong to an existing team.
  • Build AI agents to automate repetitive parts of the role.

About the company

Dataleap is an AI-powered market research platform for corporate strategy and management consulting teams. It offers a natural-language Copilot built on a curated, paywalled database of trusted market data from premier research firms, ensuring searches and analyses rely on verifiable sources. The platform unifies multiple data sources, can incorporate a company’s proprietary information, and provides a document matrix to run meta-studies and extract custom datasets. Its goal is to streamline market research workflows, reduce misinformation risk, and empower enterprise decisions with an auditable, centralized data toolkit that stands apart from generic AI search tools.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$130K

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • Jan 22, 2026 launch broadened use cases beyond research into sales and operations.
  • The company raised $3 million from YC and angels, including Aravind Srinivas.
  • Open hiring in San Francisco and Munich shows active expansion and customer pull.

What critics are saying

  • Dataleap's 2026 pivot from market research to AI employees confuses positioning.
  • Only six employees and five open roles signal fragile execution and founder dependency.
  • If consulting buyers reject the broader agent platform, Dataleap loses its core wedge.

What makes Dataleap unique

  • Jan Damm and Jan-Hendrik Ruettinger built Dataleap from McKinsey and Oxford experience.
  • Dataleap links answers to sources, targeting consulting workflows with curated paywalled market data.
  • Jan 22, 2026 launch introduced agentic enterprise tooling and 200+ integrations.

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