Cerebral Valley – Week of July 21st 🗓

The latest in AI Products, News, Jobs and Events

July 21, 2025

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Open Jobs

Check out active roles from our ecosystem. If you’re interested in any jobs you see, have a chat with us here.

1) CTO at Defense AI Company (SF Bay Area)

  • About the Company:

    • Deep military connections

    • Multiple PoC trials with various government organizations

    • Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia, US Army founding team

  • Ideal Candidate:

    • Demonstrated ship ability with past projects & roles

    • “Young and hungry”, preferring ability to learn over experience

    • Software engineer > PhD researcher type, building APIs, frontend, and firmware

    • Bonus points for work at Anduril, Palantir, Lockheed, & the likes

2) Technical Co-Founder at YC-Backed Commerce Startup (NYC)

  • About the Company:

    • Seed stage funding

    • Just below $1mm ARR organic

    • 26% MoM growth, 100 customers, expanding nationwide

  • Ideal Candidate:

    • Previous startup experience or at comparable fintech / sales platform

    • Absolute grinder, willing to set the intense engineering culture

    • 5+ YoE scaling stable systems

3) AI Engineer at Series A Media Company (Miami)

  • About the Company:

    • $10mm+ in funding

    • Supporting sports, media, and celebrity business growth

  • Ideal Candidate:

    • Experience communicating between ML and SWE teams internally

    • Strong ability to leverage LLMs to enhance product and development speed

    • Thumb on the pulse of the bleeding edge of AI tooling

    • Preferred experience with PHP or Laravel (can be learned on the job)

Looking to hire the best talent? Reach out to [email protected] to see how we can help.

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For early-stage ventures, Stripe Startups is where to start. The program is designed for venture-backed founders: enroll and receive access to credits on Stripe fees, expert insights, and a focused community of other founders building on Stripe.

Events List

A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).

CV Events:

🗓️ Saturday, August 2nd - Sunday, August 3rd
📍 Seattle, WA

To finish off Seattle Tech Week, we bring you the OpenAI Voicemode Hackathon hosted by Pioneer Square Labs and Cerebral Valley.

This is a unique opportunity to build voice apps with OpenAI models. The OpenAI team will be in attendance and hackers will receive hands-on support from them.

💰 Prizes include Mac Minis, Teenage Engineering OB-4s, Meta Raybans, and OpenAI credits. 💰

Our partners and judges will be some of the top names in the industry, and we will be announcing them soon... stay tuned!

Featured in July:

🗓️ Monday, July 21st
📍 Remote

​​​Ready to turn your AI MVP into a real product with traction from day one? Join Pond’s 2-week virtual hackathon - your product launchpad to build, fund, and grow the next breakthrough AI startup.

​You’ll build alongside Pond partners like Google Cloud, Eleven Labs, and Ethereum Foundation - with support from top mentors, tools, and community.

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🗓️ Monday, July 21st - Monday, August 4th
📍 Remote

​​​​Join the Convex & Resend Hackathon to build a full-stack app using the Convex Resend Component and compete for $5k in cash, prizes, and credits. Let’s see what you ship and send!

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🗓️ Wednesday, July 23rd
📍 Remote

​​​In this session, you’ll learn how Lettria designed a production-scale GraphRAG system by integrating Qdrant’s high-performance vector engine with Neo4j’s graph-based knowledge representation.

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🗓️ Friday, July 25th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​Join us to build cutting-edge AI agents that push the limits of LLMs and AI applications! 

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🗓️ Tuesday, July 29th
📍 Remote

​​​This is an exciting opportunity to see what's up and coming in the startup ecosystem, we'll be showcasing cracked startups and founders, we'll have an emphasis on AI projects in their technology stack.

​This event is all about the community and celebrating the awesome builders in the ecosystem. You'll be a critical part of the event's success in giving feedback, voting for the best demo, and optionally sharing your thoughts! 

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🗓️ Wednesday, July 30th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​Come join us for technical talks focusing on AI benchmarks. We're a group of AI engineers, researchers, and academics.

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🗓️ Tuesday, August 5th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​Hello and welcome to this edition of our AI Dev Tools Nights!

​This is a series of events where AI dev tool founders, builders, and practitioners showcase some of the most important tools in the industry, as well as all the work and thoughts that went into building those.

​Our past speakers include the founders of Netlify, Docker, Neon, and Gatsby, as well as a lead DevRel from Google DeepMind.

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🗓️ Thursday, September 4th - Friday, September 5th
📍 San Francisco, CA

Join the community Get your Odoo questions answered in the Q&A after each session, and speak directly with exhibitors about your business's wonderful use-cases.

Connect, collaborate, and build your network Enhance your ERP expertise and interact with the Odoo community from across the globe. Whether you seek advice on specific projects or need guidance on business growth, our partners are here to help.

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🗓️ Thursday, August 7th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​This workshop is for developers and AI agent builders who want to run open-source coding agents in the cloud, as part of a team, with the right infrastructure behind them.

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This Week in SF:

🗓️ Monday, July 21
📍 San Francisco, CA

You probably already know that AI is changing the world. Come learn about some of the awesome AI dev tools being worked on.

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🗓️ Tuesday, July 22
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​Making the surreal, real.

​​​​​​Join us for another edition of Surreal.

​​​We'll discuss what the future of AI Wearables might look like and how cutting edge hardware is unlocking new computing interactions.

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🗓️ Tuesday, July 22
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Welcome to our monthly SF meetup!

​​​Whether you're a developer, founder, or simply curious about the future of AI, you won't want to miss these insightful talks and community demos from leading experts in the field.

​​Light refreshments will be available.

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🗓️ Thursday, July 24
📍 San Francisco, CA

​​​​Connect with automation enthusiasts, developers, and builders as we explore powerful use cases, share knowledge, and collaborate on building with n8n. Whether you're just getting started or already deep in your workflow game, this meetup is your chance to get inspired, troubleshoot, and network with other n8n users.

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This Week in NYC:

🗓️ Thursday, July 24
📍 New York, NY

​Join a room full of founders, operators, and investors for an evening of actual fun: drinks + food, quality comedy, and zero networking agendas.

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🗓️ Thursday, July 24
📍 New York, NY

​​The evening will feature expert-led talks and technical discussions with developers, engineers, and researchers shaping the infrastructure behind modern AI. Whether you're deep into modular systems or just starting to explore ways to scale your workflows, this is a chance to connect, learn, and get inspired.

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🗓️ Saturday, July 26
📍 New York, NY

​At the NYC edition of the Agents Hackathon, your mission is to build AI agents that uncover something truly novel about the world. Whether through scientific literature, online communities, real-world data, or visual information, we believe agents today — especially with access to tools like Claude, Perplexity, AWS, and others — are now capable of producing legitimate, original discoveries.

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