

You
Anna and Amy are saving a seat for Nowadays' first designer.
The problem
Planning large events by hand means phoning vendors for quotes.
Nowadays makes an AI platform that plans corporate meetings and events end to end.
The people
They are sisters, and Anna talked Amy into quitting her Google job to start the company together.
Anna Sun · CEO
- Product manager and software engineer at Datadog, DoorDash and Amazon
- Studied computer science at MIT, where she was class president
- Organized large events, once picking up 2,000 McDonald's McNuggets herself
Amy Yan · COO
- Strategy and operations roles at Google, Meta and McKinsey
- Graduated from Johns Hopkins, where she was class president
So far
Google, Airbnb and BlackRock are among its customers.
$2M seed from YC, Basis Set, Hike and angels, December 2024.
Your seat
Admit one · Nowadays
Founding Product Designer
- Where
- San Francisco
- Salary
- $100k to $150k
- Equity
- 0.25% to 1.25% equity
- With
- Anna and Amy
- Stage
- Seed
- Team
- 11 people
- Writes code
- No
- Backed by
- Y Combinator S23
Sources: techcrunch.com, ycombinator.com