Jay Reddy
Jay Reddy is the founder of FirstInternships, a platform that helps students land their first internship by reaching out to companies directly instead of disappearing into job-board portals.
Background
Jay grew up in Edison, New Jersey, where he graduated from J.P. Stevens High School. He is now a freshman at Arizona State University and runs FirstInternships alongside his studies.
He started the company after watching the same thing happen to students around him. They send dozens of applications through job boards and hear nothing back, while the internships that actually get filled go to whoever reached out to the company first. Most companies, especially smaller ones, never post their internships publicly at all.
Jay designed and built the product himself, from the database of verified recruiting contacts to the AI that writes each email to the system that sends it safely from a student's own Gmail. The idea is to give any student the direct line that well-connected students already have.
Education
- Arizona State University, Undergraduate, current freshman
- J.P. Stevens High School, Edison, New Jersey
About FirstInternships
FirstInternships is an AI-powered outreach platform for students seeking their first internship. Students browse thousands of verified company inboxes, generate a tailored cold email for each one, and send it from their own address. The platform also offers free tools that grade a resume or a cold email, guides on how to reach out, and a referral program that rewards students for bringing friends.
By the numbers
Every contact in the database is checked at the mail-server level, so students spend their effort on companies that can actually receive their message.
Company valuation
FirstInternships is an early-stage company. The lower figure is a conservative, defensible estimate of current value based on the finished product, the verified database, published content, and brand. The higher range reflects where comparable early-stage companies in this space are valued once they build a user base and recurring revenue. These are internal estimates based on stated assumptions, not a formal appraisal or an offer.
Connect
Find Jay on LinkedIn. For partnership, press, or hiring inquiries, reach the team at contactfirstinternships@gmail.com, or learn more about the platform at firstinternships.com.