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The Growth Engine for Early-Stage Startups

Your Unfair Advantage

The First Call for Companies With Global Ambitions

Mitchell Hashimoto
Armon Dadgar
Backed as a 5-person team
IPO in 2021, Acquired by IBM for $7.7B in 2025
Adrien Treuille
Amanda Kelly
Thiago Teixeira
Backed pre-Revenue
Acquired by Snowflake  in 2022 for $1B
Arie Zilberstein
Ron Konigberg
Ofir Brukner
Backed at Series A
Acquired by Wiz in 2024
Adam Markowitz
Daniel Marashlian
Troy Markowitz
Backed at Series A
Reached $100M+ in ARR & $2B valuation
Gil Geron
Backed pre-revenue
Valued at $1.8B

The N1 System for Early Stage Startups

Tell Your Story

You see something others can’t—we’ll help you tell that story. The story is foundational; it’s what convinces early customers to choose you and candidates to join you in your mission. Our strategic workshops pinpoint the right brand narrative and product messaging, rooted in a deep understanding of your category and market.

Build a Winning Team

It’s never been easier to build, so an idea alone will not be a moat. Winning today means focusing on the right problems and moving at warp speed to solve them, and your early team is more critical than ever. We partner to lay the foundation for hiring a high-performance culture across the org.

Scale Revenue

Most technical founders are not seasoned sellers—but we’re here to help. From establishing relationships with impactful Design Partners, skipping months of cold emails with our global enterprise buyer network, to setting up the best-in-class AI-enabled tech stack, we help you build a world-class GTM engine.

What is N1?

N1 is our system for early-stage company building. We turn our decades of experience helping companies scale from zero to millions in ARR into your unfair advantage for building an AI-native company. We focus our attention on the three pillars that matter most at the 0-1 stage: telling your story, building a winning team, and scaling revenue.

I need to hire my early leadership team. How does N1 help?

Our talent team are proven operators who have led executive searches at leading companies like Uber, Doordash, and Meta. They won’t just send you candidate lists, they partner with you for your most critical early hires, shaping everything from the scope of the role and the right level for your stage, candidate profile, interview loop, and closing strategy to win your dream candidate.

I need introductions to operators who can provide product feedback, and even become design partners or early customers. How can you help?

Our business development team forges direct connections with global strategic customers and enterprise buyers, with a particular focus on technical leaders and the cybersecurity community. Whether you’re looking for product feedback, design partnerships, or are ready to start closing your first enterprise deals, they can connect you to buyers with real decision-making power.

I need to tell my startup’s story in a way that stands out from the crowd, but I don’t have a full-time marketing team yet. How can you help?

It’s more difficult than ever to cut through the noise. Our marketing team will deliver structured sessions to sharpen positioning, pressure-test messaging, and build a marketing foundation that grows with you. We help you understand the landscape, clarify what makes you different, and craft a narrative that sticks. When it’s time to share what you’re building publicly, we’re equipped to navigate the shifting media landscape to deliver the right message to the right audience.

Company building is changing quickly. How can you help me build an AI native organization?

We perform comprehensive evaluations of your tool stack so that you launch with the same AI-powered stack used by Notable's fastest-growing companies. Our business development team partners directly to create an AI-first revenue engine so that no lead slips through the cracks, without adding admin burden to your small-but-mighty team.

What else comes with N1?

When you join N1, you also get access to our other battle-tested programs and resources, like Notable's Founders + Leaders curriculum, which taught the CEOs of now-iconic companies how to manage hypergrowth culture challenges. N1 founders join cohorts with peers facing identical scaling decisions in real-time and also have access to 1,000+ operators in our Slack workspace for immediate connectivity to other builders who’ve been in your shoes. You’ll also get access to exclusive product discounts and credits to build your AI-native tool stack.