Every great startup needs the right lineup. Time to build yours.

Lineup connects early-stage startups with the talent they need. Whether you're looking for a co-founder, employee or looking to join a startup — this is where you start.

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Find the profiles or projects that inspire you.

The projects. Find out what's being built around you, how far along they are, and what they're looking for — before anyone else.

TDeep tech

Tidewatch

Harbour sensors that tell small boat operators when it is safe to leave.

Auckland, New Zealand

Prototype
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KSocial

Kete

One shared shopping list for flats, settled up at the end of the week.

Wellington, New Zealand

Users
x
PSustainability

Paddock

Pasture cover from satellite imagery, priced for a single farm.

Hamilton, New Zealand

Idea
x

The profiles. Looking for a way to join the ecosystem? Sign up and start browsing options in your field of interest.

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Ada Whitiora

Wellington, New Zealand

Ten years designing software people use every day. I want to do it for something small enough that the decisions are still mine.

DesignProduct managementSaaSEducation

How it works. Whether you are building, or looking for something to build.

01

Write your profile

Tell who you are, what you can do, and how much time you have. It might be the first step towards your startup journey.

02

Add your project

Share what you are building and let others find you. Start building your talent pool now.

03

Reach out

Found something interesting? Lineup drafts the introduction and opens it in your own mail client.

Everyone answers the same questions.
That is what makes people findable.

What we ask

Fields

An industry or a problem area. You pick the ones you are drawn to; a project sits in one.

  • Pick as many as you like
  • Or stay open to everything
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Skills

The same words on both sides. You list what you can do, a project lists what it is missing.

  • What you can do
  • What a project is missing
  • One list, so the two line up
A profile has
  • Business development
  • Communications
  • Content creation
  • Data science
  • Design
  • Engineering
A project wants
  • Business development
  • Communications
  • Content creation
  • Data science
  • Design
  • Engineering

Stage and time

Where it is, and how much time you have. Idea, prototype, or something people already use — and how many hours a week you can give it.

  • Idea, prototype, or people using it
  • What you have done before
  1. Idea
    A direction and a reason, not yet built.
  2. Prototype
    Something exists, but nobody is using it yet.
  3. Users
    People are using it, paying or not.
Time commitment
Full time alreadyFull time once I find a co-founderPart time alongside something else

What you're looking for

The part no dropdown can hold. A few sentences on who you want beside you — the co-founder, the first hire, the person who fills the gap you cannot.

  • Written in your own words
  • The reason the email is not cold
Looking for
A technical co-founder who has shipped something to real users before. I can sell it and I know the market — I just cannot build it on my own.

Nobody here is a cold email.

To[email protected]SubjectGrace Hopper via Lineup

Hi Ada,

I found you on Lineup. I'm Grace Hopper. My profile is at lineup.nz/platform/profiles/grace-hopper-k3f9q2.

Opens in your own mail client. Lineup does not send it.

You already know what they are building, what they need and how much time they have — it is on their profile. Lineup turns that into a first email worth replying to.

Context before the first line. The introduction arrives already knowing why you wrote.

Sent by you, from your address. It opens in your own mail client, and the reply comes straight back to you.

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