--- title: 'Ex-Founder with Track Record at Dataleap' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ex-founder-with-track-record-dataleap-munich-gs18za5rzxt3' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-05' --- # Ex-Founder with Track Record at Dataleap - **Company:** Dataleap - **Location:** Munich, Germany - **Employment:** full-time - **Posted:** 2026-10-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dataleap/a8f9e78c-12ae-40e8-b753-cef032c2c2a4 ## Job description These are special times. And special times require special measures. Everything is moving faster than ever before. AI progress is only accelerating. Startups are achieving growth goals in months that used to take years. Whole industries are being obliterated overnight. As an ex-founder, change is your second nature. You know how to adapt, to grow beyond yourself to meet the challenge. You have been in the trenches for years. You have a sixth sense about the things that matter amidst chaos, an intuition that is almost impossible to learn. Small teams of excellent people can punch way above their weight and achieve things that seemed impossible months ago. We are assembling a team of kick-ass former founders to do our life’s best work together. Our ambition is to invent the future of work. We will beat Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google on the application layer. We developed the platform that allows companies to rethink their processes fundamentally and make them agentic. In other words, we are building the token value machine that allows enterprises to build agentic systems that generate more ROI the more tokens they invest. We are hiring ex-founders with a track record in all roles. Engineering, Growth, Product, Deployments. Let’s talk and see how you fit in. ## About Dataleap ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Dataleap builds the Agentic Operating System for enterprises, enabling business teams to create AI employees (agents) without engineering assistance. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; Y Combinator S24) - **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (also has office in Munich, Germany) - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Jan Damm (CEO) and Jan-Hendrik Ruettinger (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Agentic Automation - **Target customers**: B2B – tech-forward companies ranging from 2-person startups to 2,000-person unicorns; later expanding to all companies. - **Mission**: “Make knowledge work at your computer fun” – give non-engineering roles (sales, ops, HR) the same AI superpowers that engineers get with tools like Cursor and Claude Code. ## Products & Services - **Dataleap Platform**: A cloud-based agentic work platform that lets business users describe tasks in natural language and have autonomous AI agents execute them. Features include: - 200+ pre-built integrations with common tools (Confluence, ServiceNow, Okta, etc.) - Support for custom HTTP APIs and MCP servers - Custom interfaces with action buttons generated from user data - Human-in-the-loop approvals, reviews, and handoffs - Multi‑model support to choose the best LLM for each task - Triggers from app events, schedules, and webhooks ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Total Funding**: **$3M** (announced Feb 4, 2026) – raised exclusively from founders and operators. Previous rounds: $500k pre-seed and $125k seed from Y Combinator. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Harj Taggar), BOOOM VC (Felix Plapperer), Wayfinder (Yuri Sagalov), Founders Inc., Alliance, Ritual Capital, Nomad Capital, Phosphor Capital, Rebel Ventures; angel investors include Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Rahul Vohra (Superhuman), Hanno Renner (Personio), and others. - **Growth Signals**: - Team size grew from ~5 to 6 employees (+40% yearly LinkedIn growth) - 2,208 LinkedIn followers (+61.8% year over year) - Active job postings (3 open roles) with monthly increase of +50% - Customers ranging from startups to 2,000‑employee unicorns - Creating a new category they call **“vibe working”** – blending close AI collaboration with background automation ## Competitive Advantages - **Agent‑first interface**: No visual workflow builder or long setup (differentiated from tools like n8n and ChatGPT conversational agents). - **Cloud‑first**: Agents run in the cloud, ensuring knowledge is not lost locally. - **Enterprise‑ready**: 200+ integrations, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, approvals, and ability to use the best model per task without vendor lock‑in. - **Crafted experience**: Self‑described as “the Linear of our category” – focused on reliability, ease of use, and virality within organizations. ## Strategic Focus - Decentralize agent building – give power to domain experts instead of central business automation teams. - Redefine knowledge work: elevate AI agents from one‑off tasks to persistent background workers. - Expand from tech‑forward companies to all enterprises. - Continue building the “agentic operating system” that absorbs and replaces traditional software categories. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Small, agile team (6 people) with a strong mission and high ownership; described as building “the future of work.” - **Work environment**: Hybrid/office – roles open in San Francisco (HQ) and Munich, Germany. - **Compensation & equity**: Founding‑level roles with salary ranges: - San Francisco: $120K – $250K + 0.20% – 1.00% equity - Munich: €90K – €150K + 0.10% – 0.50% equity - **Notable perks**: Work with YC‑backed team, access to top AI models, and direct impact on product direction. The founders come from Google, BCG, and Oxford AI research. - **Who they look for**: “Extremely good” individuals who resonate with redefining work – currently hiring Founding Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (Munich), and Deployment Strategist. ## Sources 1. [dataleap.ai](https://dataleap.ai/) 2. [ycombinator.com – company page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dataleap) 3. [linkedin.com – company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dataleap-inc) 4. [dataleap.ai – $3M funding announcement](https://www.dataleap.ai/blog/3m-funding-round) 5. [ycombinator.com – jobs page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dataleap/jobs) ## Other roles at Dataleap - [Founders Associate, Growth (Munich Office)](https://feeny.ai/job/founders-associate-growth-munich-office-dataleap-munich-h7j1j9qv0wdg) — Munich, Germany - [Founding Sales (Munich Office)](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-sales-munich-office-dataleap-munich-372qgd9n1y4a) — Munich, Germany - [Deployment Strategist (Munich Office)](https://feeny.ai/job/deployment-strategist-munich-office-dataleap-munich-32rbagcbpzrk) — Munich, Germany - [Founder's Associate](https://feeny.ai/job/founder-s-associate-dataleap-san-francisco-0hbn8e1myd25) — San Francisco, CA - [Working Student Integrations](https://feeny.ai/job/working-student-integrations-dataleap-munich-r3tap6w1tbrp) — Munich, Germany - [Founding Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-dataleap-san-francisco-na4czwt830wq) — San Francisco, CA - [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-forward-deployed-engineer-fde-dataleap-munich-3qwrkaaytkrb) — Munich, Germany - [Founding Deployment Strategist](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-deployment-strategist-dataleap-munich-xjbw4zpphew8) — Munich, Germany