Full-Time

Founder's Associate

Dataleap

Dataleap

1-10 employees

Generative AI-powered market research platform

No salary listed

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

Category
Business & Strategy (2)
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Required Skills
Sales

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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.

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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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • YC and angels backed Dataleap's $3M seed, extending runway into 2026.
  • The July 2026 website says it has 'thousands of agents deployed' and strong demand.
  • Energy and consulting workflows need verifiable sources, matching Dataleap's strongest wedge.

What critics are saying

  • Dataleap's 2026 pivot from market research to 'AI employees' dilutes product clarity.
  • Incumbents like Perplexity, Microsoft, and Glean can bundle search and agents faster.
  • If enterprise adoption stalls, a tiny team and narrow brand can collapse before 2027.

What makes Dataleap unique

  • Dataleap combines curated paid research with natural-language search, reducing hallucinated outputs.
  • The company already serves BCG, Siemens Energy, and Uniper, proving enterprise trust.
  • Founder Jan Damm brings Google Search and McKinsey experience; Jan-Hendrik Ruettinger brings Oxford AI research.

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