In partnership with
What does a $120k hire actually cost you?
A $120K salary might look straightforward on paper. But once you factor in employer taxes, statutory benefits, payroll, and country-specific employment costs, the number can look pretty different.
And those costs can vary significantly depending on where your employee is based. Before you build your hiring budget, or make an offer, it helps to know the full picture.
Oyster’s Global Hiring Cost Calculator lets you compare employment costs across 120 countries and estimate what a hire could really cost your business.
Hola Familia to Edition #129- Nominate a VC
We’ve been on the road since kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month. We’ve had 4 events in LA, NYC, Boston and a remaining 6 in NYC, SF, Chicago, CDMX and LA. Thank you to our awesome city leads for anchoring us on the ground and bringing community to our founders and investors across the US and internationally. ⚡️
For the remainder of the year we are uniting our community through 6 Hispanic Heritage Month Events, a digital platform, and the VCF Awards Gala in San Francisco on December 3rd. Nominate a VC HERE.
Table of Contents
AI & Tech News
Snorkel AI Raises $350M at $3.5B Valuation — San Francisco-based Snorkel AI, which creates and vets training datasets for AI models, closed a major Series C round. This signals continued investor appetite for AI infrastructure and data validation—critical building blocks for enterprise AI deployments. Read more →
Mirendil in Talks for $1B Raise at $5B Valuation — A newly founded San Francisco startup developing self-improving AI models with minimal human input is in advanced fundraising talks. The valuation reflects the market's aggressive bet on autonomous AI advancement and reduced manual intervention costs. Read more →
Brahma AI Raises $150M for AI-Powered Content Management — London-based Brahma AI, which helps enterprises manage and localize audiovisual content using AI, closed a $150M round led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management. Enterprise adoption of AI for content workflows is accelerating across geographies. Read more →
Paymob Raises $35M from Cairo: FinTech Infrastructure Expanding — Paymob, an 11-year-old Cairo-based payment infrastructure provider, raised $35M to expand digital payment acceptance across emerging markets. This reflects growing institutional capital flowing to underserved payment ecosystems in MENA and emerging regions. Read more →
🎩 VCFamilia Awards Gala, Dec 3 in SF — Tickets, Volunteers & Nominations
The 3rd Annual VCFamilia Awards Reception is officially open for registration. Join us for a black-tie night in San Francisco celebrating this year's Rising Star, Catalyst, and Legacy honorees — plus food, drinks, and a live auction supporting VCFamilia's mission.
Early-bird pricing is live now through October 15. It sold out last year, so don't wait. Get your tickets →
Know someone doing great work in Latine venture? Nominations for this year's awards are open. Submit a nomination →
Want to be part of making the night happen? We're looking for volunteers for check-in, guest support, and day-of logistics. Sign up to volunteer →
Hispanic Heritage Month Kicked off in 4 Cities
Pitch Roast Live - NYC 📍
Where Culture Meets Community - BOS 📍
The Arc of Fundraising - NYC 📍
Fractionals & Founders - LA 📍
Upcoming Events- Find us in NYC, LA, CHI, CDMX, and SF
Grants & Accelerators
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Build Accelerator: A ten-week virtual program focused on product development, cloud infrastructure, analytics and AI/ML. Applications open: Aug 8–Sep 22 🔗 Apply →
High Five Grant — $10k grand prize, $5,000 and $2,500 for runners-up, plus five $1,000 honorable mentions. Nine awards total, which is meaningfully better odds than a single-winner competition. Requires posting your story on social and tagging the sponsors. Best fit: mothers and expectant mothers owning at least half a business doing $10K to $500K, in the U.S. or Canada. Apply by September 30. Apply →
Outta Excuses Grant — $3k +$3,000 plus a month of weekly business coaching. Applying also enters you for a $10,000 bonus award in November. Requires attending the live Zoom announcement. $15 fee. Open to for-profits and nonprofits, which is rare. Best fit: U.S. LLCs or 501(c)(3)s under $500K in revenue who've been passed over by traditional funders.📅 Q3 cycle closes September 30. Apply →
Business Freedom Grant — $1k no revenue minimum, idea stage welcome. They publish a 10-point scoring rubric: clarity of idea, feasibility, impact of the grant, and passion, so write straight to those four. Best fit: someone who has never applied for a grant and needs a first one that's actually winnable.📅 Closes September 30. Apply →
Giving Joy Microgrant — $500 open to women anywhere in the world with no geographic restriction, and you don't need to already own a business. Projects have to benefit multiple women, girls, or families rather than just the founder. They explicitly prefer a strong idea over a polished application. Best fit: community-impact ventures and founders intimidated by grant writing.📅 Fall cycle closes September 30. Apply →
Velocity Conference
When you're a change maker and a leader, you move with velocity. Join LaFamilia on October 7–9, 2026 in LA for the business event of the year: first access to new, exclusive data and exactly how to turn it into action.
Register HERE
#Velocity2026 #MoveWithVelocity
Open Positions in VC and Startups 💼
Associate at General Atlantic (NYC) — Apply →
Associate at Azolla Ventures (Cambridge, MA) — Apply →
Associate at White Star Capital (Montreal) — Apply →
Associate at CVS Health Ventures (Remote (NYC/Boston based)) — Apply →
Senior Investment Manager at AMEX Ventures (NYC / SF) — Apply →
Program Manager - Global Partnerships at a16z (SF) — Apply →
Data Engineer - Global Partnerships at a16z (SF) — Apply →
Communications at a16z (SF) — Apply →
Analyst, Corporate Development and Venture Capital at Humana (Remote / NYC) — Apply →
Technical Fellow at Samsung Next (Mountain View, CA) — Apply →
VP of Capital Formation & Community at Axci Capital (Remote / SF) — Apply →
Intern(s) at Korelya Capital (Paris) — Apply →
Manager (Studio Operations) at Diffusion Venture Studio (SF / DC / Remote) — Apply →
Marketing Manager at Atlanta Ventures (Atlanta, GA) — Apply →
Startup Partnerships at Y Combinator (Remote) — Apply →
VC Partnerships Manager at OpenAI (San Francisco) — Apply →
Associate at M12 (Microsoft's CVC) (San Francisco) — Apply →
Senior Portfolio Development Manager at M12 (Microsoft's CVC) (Redmond, WA) — Apply →
Director (Platform) at McKesson Ventures (Multiple Locations) — Apply →
Tax Lead at IVP (Menlo Park, CA) — Apply →
Associate at Farmhand Ventures (Remote) — Apply →
Multiple Investment Team Roles at Oak HC/FT (Various Locations) — Apply →
Associate at Leonis Capital (San Francisco) — Apply →
Venture Lead at Basel Area Business & Innovation (Basel, Switzerland) — Apply →
Director at TechPoint (Indianapolis, IN) — Apply →
Associate (Platform) at Point Nine (Berlin) — Apply →
Associate at Mercia Ventures (Nottingham) — Apply →
Associate at Haufe Group Ventures (Berlin) — Apply →
Chief of Staff to Managing Partner at Venture Capital (Remote) — Apply →
Operating Partner, Fundraising & Technology at Venture Capital (Remote) — Apply →
MBA Fellow at Collide Capital (Remote) — Apply →
Visiting Analyst at Seedcamp (London) — Apply →
Visiting Associate at Quona (EMEA (Remote)) — Apply →
Associate (Incubation) at Primary Venture Partners (SF) — Apply →
Associate at B Capital (SF) — Apply →
Associate at Huntington Ventures (NYC) — Apply →
Associate at HarbourVest Partners (Boston, MA) — Apply →
Investor at Galaxy (NYC) — Apply →
Principal at Olive Asset Management (Palo Alto, CA) — Apply →
Principal at ICA Fund (Oakland, CA) — Apply →
Director at 3M Ventures (Maplewood, MN / San Francisco, CA) — Apply →
Deal Lead at Deloitte CoVentures (Multiple Locations) — Apply →
Deal Lead at Robinhood Ventures (Menlo Park, CA) — Apply →
Chief of Staff at Cowboy Ventures (SF) — Apply →
Senior Manager, Community & Engagement at Mission-driven VC ecosystem nonprofit (SF) — Apply →
Open Positions in VC and Startups 💼
Founder to Watch - Kateri Gutierrez 🇲🇽
Kateri Gutierrez grew up in Lynwood, California, as a first-generation student, Kateri always pictured building a business that could strengthen her community. After UC Berkeley, she returned home and co-founded Collective Avenue Coffee, a worker-owned cooperative that brought economic opportunity and a place to connect to her neighborhood. Now, after an MBA and nearly four years at Deloitte, she's becoming a tech founder for the first time.
Her new company, Happin, is a social coordination app that privately lets you know when you'll overlap with friends at conferences, concerts, on trips, or wherever life takes you. No broadcasting, no group-chat chaos, just a quiet nudge that turns accidental proximity into real connection. Kateri is bringing the same community-first approach to tech, along with one lesson learned: you don't have to be technical to build a tech company, but you do need to know when to bring in the technical experts.
💬 Community Ask: Kateri is looking to connect with early users, community builders, and people working in social, consumer, and travel tech who want to rethink how we stay connected as our lives get busier and more mobile. Join here: https://lnkd.in/gnS9tz_m
If you’re building on AI, you know how fast token spend can get messy: usage spikes, bills show up late, and no one’s totally sure which model, team, or workflow drove the cost. Ramp gives founders real-time visibility into AI spend across vendors, models, teams, and individuals — plus anomaly alerts before a surprise bill hits.
Founders are using it to:
Catch runaway token spend before it eats runway
Compare model costs and switch to cheaper options when performance doesn’t justify the price
Show investors and see yourselves how efficiently the team is using AI to drive output
→ Sign up free: https://ramp.com/partners/lafamilia-foundation
→ Reach Alua directly at [email protected] to get set up
We pull this newsletter together every two weeks for free. If today's grants list, jobs, or events helped you, the easiest way to say thanks is to chip in here.
{{rp_personalized_text}}
Or copy and paste this link to others: {{rp_refer_url_no_params}}
We pull this newsletter together every two weeks for free. If today's grants list, jobs, or events helped you, the easiest way to say thanks is to chip in here. Even $5 keeps the lights on. We've got 7,500+ of you. If even a fraction of you covered a coffee, that's our entire year.
La unión hace la fuerza.
