The startup talent pool for ANZ

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

Find a cofounder, hire your first people, or join a startup. One place for everyone building early-stage.

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Because without the right people, even the best ideas stay just that: ideas.
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I'm building something

Find a cofounder or grow your founding team. Equity, pay or a paid project: you choose the terms.

I'm hiring for my startup

Post a first hire or a paid project and reach people who actually want to work in startups. Free during the pilot.

Post a job

I want to join a startup

From your first startup role to your next big one, full time or on the side.

What is Lineup?

Lineup is where startup people find each other. Solo founders find cofounders and early teammates. Growing startups find their first hires. And people who want to build in startups find a way in, at whatever level and whatever pace suits them.

Everyone here has chosen the startup world. That's what makes the matches better: same culture, same mindset, people who'd rather build than climb a corporate ladder.

From New Zealand, for the ANZ region, and open to the world.

New projects and people joining all the time.
Find the projects, people and jobs that inspire you.

The projects. Find out who's building what around you, how far along they are, and what they're looking for.

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.

Sydney, Australia

Users
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PSustainability

Paddock

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

Hamilton, New Zealand

Idea
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The people. Founders, builders and professionals looking for their next startup move. Sign up to browse by field and skill.

AW

Ada Whitiora

Auckland, 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

The jobs. First hires and paid projects from early-stage startups. Create a profile to see them and apply.

  • Founding engineer

    · Auckland

    Full timeEquity

  • Brand sprint

    · Remote

    Contract

  • Growth lead

    · Wellington

    Part timeEquity

How it works. Whichever way you're coming in.

Building a team

  1. 01Add your project: what you're building and who you're missing.
  2. 02Browse people who fit.
  3. 03Reach out with a request inside Lineup.

Hiring for your startup

  1. 01Post a job: a role or a paid project, with up to two questions of your own.
  2. 02We approve it within one business day.
  3. 03Applicants come to you on Lineup. Start with a conversation.

Joining a startup

  1. 01Write one profile: who you are, what you can do, how much time you have.
  2. 02Browse projects and jobs.
  3. 03Apply or reach out. No cover letters.

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

No tailored CVs, no AI-polished cover letters. Just who you are, in the same format as everyone else.

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
AgritechAIBiotechDeep techDesignE-commerceEducationEnergyEnterpriseEntertainmentFashionFinancialFoodGamingHardwareHealthManufacturingReal estateSaaSSecuritySocialSustainabilityTravelOther
DesignE-commerceEducationEnergyEnterpriseEntertainmentFashionFinancialFoodGamingHardwareHealthManufacturingReal estateSaaSSecuritySocialSustainabilityTravelOtherAgritechAIBiotechDeep tech
EnterpriseEntertainmentFashionFinancialFoodGamingHardwareHealthManufacturingReal estateSaaSSecuritySocialSustainabilityTravelOtherAgritechAIBiotechDeep techDesignE-commerceEducationEnergy
FoodGamingHardwareHealthManufacturingReal estateSaaSSecuritySocialSustainabilityTravelOtherAgritechAIBiotechDeep techDesignE-commerceEducationEnergyEnterpriseEntertainmentFashionFinancial
ManufacturingReal estateSaaSSecuritySocialSustainabilityTravelOtherAgritechAIBiotechDeep techDesignE-commerceEducationEnergyEnterpriseEntertainmentFashionFinancialFoodGamingHardwareHealth

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 what you want next: the cofounder, the first hire, the role you're after, or the gap you can fill.

  • Written in your own words
  • The reason the first message is not cold
Looking for
A technical cofounder 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 message.

ToAda LovelaceFromGrace Hopper, profile attached

Hey Ada,

I found your profile and thought your background was interesting. Would you be open for a chat this week?

A request inside Lineup. Neither email address changes hands.

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 message worth replying to.

The same goes for applications: employers see your profile and your answers to their questions, and the conversation starts inside Lineup.

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

Your address stays yours. It arrives in Lineup beside your profile, and the reply comes back to you there.

Hiring your first people shouldn't be harder than finding your cofounder.

Traditional job ads are slow, expensive, and bring in hundreds of AI-written applications that all read the same. Lineup works differently.

Post a job

Reach people who chose startups.

Founders and startup people, not suppliers selling a one-off job.

See the person, not the polish.

Applicants come with one profile and their answers to your questions.

Skip the employer branding.

We bring startup people into one growing pool, so you don't have to compete with big-company brands or pay recruiter fees.

Fast, and free during the pilot.

Post in minutes, approved within one business day.

For builders, hustlers and people who want to make a change.

Find your way into startups, grow into your next role, or pick up a paid project on the side, without going corporate. Work with people who share your mindset.

If you're after the biggest salary or an impressive title, this isn't the place. If you want to build something that matters, it is.

Join Lineup, it's free

Meet the community. The people behind the profiles, in person.

Breakfasts, match nights and meetups for founders and startup people. Come along, meet someone new, and find your next teammate face to face.

A group of Lineup members gathered on a city street after a morning meetup

Questions, answered.

Is Lineup free?

There is always a free tier for founders and people looking for a startup to join. Posting jobs is free during the hiring pilot, and will stay competitively priced after it.

Who can post jobs?

Startups, investors (for example an entrepreneur-in-residence role) and ecosystem programmes. Every job is reviewed before it goes live.

Why do I need a profile to see jobs?

Jobs are for the Lineup community. That keeps them in front of people who genuinely want to work in startups.

Paid projects or roles?

Both. A job is any paid role: full time, part time, contract or an internship, and a short paid project goes up as a contract. A role offered for equity alone is a project, and lives on the cofounder side of Lineup.

How is this different from a freelancer platform?

Lineup's pool is founders and startup people who want to grow with a team, not suppliers selling one-off jobs. A paid project here can grow into a role, equity or a cofounder seat.

Equity or pay?

Either, or both. Lineup doesn't decide the terms; you do. A job can say whether equity comes on top of the pay.

Where does the work happen?

Wherever the job says. Each job says where and how the work happens, onsite, hybrid or remote, and applicants say where they have the right to work, which employers see in every application.

There has never been a better time to build a startup.

Small teams can build more than ever. With today's tools, a few people ship what used to take a whole company.

Starting on the side is normal now. You can try working together on a project or part time before anyone goes all in.

What's still hard is the people. The right cofounder, the right first hire, the right startup to join. That part is what Lineup is for.

Build your lineup.

Whether you're finding a cofounder, hiring your first people or looking for your startup move, it starts with one profile.

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