Ben Lang
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Ex Notion Head of Community | next play Founder | Angel Investing, Benlang.me
I’ve spent my life hopping between New York, Tel Aviv, and San Francisco. I'm a builder, former founder, and community guy, always in multiple places at one time. I was an early member of the Notion team, where I led community for nearly 5 years. I actively make angel investments and advise a few select startups
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Ben's Startup
These are ALL of the best-in-class tools every early-stage startup should be using:
41 tools
Attio
"Fundraising: CRM" - Ben Lang
Customizable CRM: Build, track, analyze, and collaborate.
Gamma
"Fundraising: Deck" - Ben Lang
AI creates engaging presentations, docs, sites without design skills.
AngelList
"Fundraising: Cap Table" - Ben Lang
Connect startups with investors, raise funds, and hire talent.
Mercury
"Finance: Bank account" - Ben Lang
All-in-one startup banking platform, simplifying finances with AI.
Deel
"Finance: Payroll" - Ben Lang
Global hiring and payroll, simplified for international teams.
Ramp
"Finance: Credit card / expenses" - Ben Lang
Control company spending, automate accounting, and save money.
Doola
"Finance: Incorporation" - Ben Lang
Simplifies comprehensive US business setup, management, compliance hassle-free.
Equals
"Finance: Reporting" - Ben Lang
Spreadsheet-like data analysis and reporting, simplified.
Gynger
"Finance: SaaS financing" - Ben Lang
Finances software flexibly; buyers conserve cash, sellers paid upfront.
Gelt
"Finance: Taxes" - Ben Lang
Proactive AI tax plans by CPAs: optimizing, simplifying finances.
Figma
"Design & Brand: Interface design / whiteboard" - Ben Lang
Collaborative design tool for interface, web, and more.
Framer
"Design & Brand: Landing pages" - Ben Lang
Design, build, and publish websites effortlessly, without code.
Modyfi
"Design & Brand: Graphic design" - Ben Lang
One browser tool simplifying design, animation, AI editing, collaboration.
Jitter
"Design & Brand: Motion design" - Ben Lang
Creates engaging animations easily; imports Figma, templates, flexible exports.
Notion
"Operations & admin: Wiki/notes/projects" - Ben Lang
Your connected workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
Slack
"Operations & admin: Team comms" - Ben Lang
Team communication and collaboration, all in one place.
Cove
"Operations & admin: AI collaboration" - Ben Lang
Contextual AI collaborator for shared visual project building.
Granola
"Operations & admin: Meeting notes" - Ben Lang
AI enhances meeting notes, transcribes, automates summaries and tasks.
Ashby
"Operations & admin: Recruiting" - Ben Lang
Hiring platform streamlining recruiting and improving candidate experience.
Tally
"Operations & admin: Forms" - Ben Lang
Build beautiful forms free, collect unlimited responses easily.
Budibase
"Operations & admin: Internal tool-building" - Ben Lang
Build internal tools fast, connect to anything, deploy anywhere.
Make (formerly Integromat)
"Operations & admin: Automation" - Ben Lang
Visually connect apps, automate tasks, and boost productivity.
Vanta
"Operations & admin: Compliance" - Ben Lang
Automate security and compliance to build customer trust.
Thatch
"Operations & admin: Healthcare" - Ben Lang
Platform for US firms' health budgets, employee plan choice.
Clay
"Marketing & sales: Personalized outreach" - Ben Lang
Find, enrich, and connect with anyone using AI-powered research.
Buffer
"Marketing & sales: Social media" - Ben Lang
Plan and schedule social media posts, analyze performance, and engage your audience.
Alta
"Marketing & sales: AI revenue operations" - Ben Lang
Clear sales insights to boost revenue and optimize your pipeline.
beehiiv
"Marketing & sales: Newsletter" - Ben Lang
Easily build, grow, monetize newsletters with websites and ads.
SellScale
"Marketing & sales: Outbound" - Ben Lang
AI finds leads, personalizes outreach, improves your email delivery.
Pocus
"Marketing & sales: Buying signals" - Ben Lang
Find hidden revenue by surfacing ideal customers.
Cursor
"Technology & product: Coding" - Ben Lang
AI-powered code editor boosts productivity with code generation and completion.
Claude
"Technology & product: AI" - Ben Lang
AI assistant reasons, codes, writes, analyzes images and data.
Lovable
"Technology & product: AI engineer" - Ben Lang
AI builds web apps fast from English. Own the code.
Vercel
"Technology & product: Cloud" - Ben Lang
Deploy, preview, and ship websites effortlessly.
Supabase
"Technology & product: Database" - Ben Lang
Build apps easily: database, auth, storage, plus AI search.
PostHog
"Technology & product: Analytics" - Ben Lang
Open-source product analytics, feature flags, and session recordings.
Loops
"Technology & product: Email" - Ben Lang
Connect apps, automate emails, improve user engagement.
Rep AI
"Technology & product: AI live chat" - Ben Lang
AI personalizes Shopify shopping, boosting sales and support.
Julius
"Technology & product: Data analyst" - Ben Lang
AI analyzes data via chat, simplifying insights, visuals, reports.
PromptLayer
"Technology & product: Prompt engineering" - Ben Lang
Track, test, and version your AI prompts for better results.
Jam.dev
"Technology & product: Bug tracking" - Ben Lang
Simplifies bug reporting: auto details, video, for quicker fixes.
An AI tool that observes your work, finds inefficiencies, and suggests smarter ways to do things. Maybe you can use your tools better, automate tasks, or switch software.