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Recruitmint is the featured partner, disclosed and pinned first.
The remaining 209 companies are ordered alphabetically from public information.
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Recruitmint is an international search and recruitment partner for founder-led, growth-stage, and complex international organizations, running high-calibration search across Growth & Ecommerce, Product & Technology, Operations, Leadership, and Government Contracting. Its team draws on international executive search, full-cycle recruitment, and operating experience across the US, Canada, EMEA, LATAM, and South Africa. A dedicated Government Contracting track monitors newly awarded federal contracts for workforce signals, so search can start before a role formally opens.
How they work
Tell us about the role — we calibrate the mandate, the market, and what success actually requires, not just a job description.
We identify, engage, and qualify candidates against that calibration, drawing on international market reach across Western Europe, North America, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.
You get a carefully calibrated shortlist, then structured assessment, interviews, offer, and close support depending on the engagement model.
For government contracting, we can start earlier: monitoring newly awarded contracts to identify likely workforce needs and activate search before hiring becomes a bottleneck.
Services
Sourcing Sprint — you run interviews internally; we identify, engage, and qualify candidates, then hand you a calibrated shortlist
Full Search — end-to-end recruitment for a high-impact or hard-to-fill hire, from calibration through candidate assessment, interviews, offer, and close
Embedded Partner — dedicated recruitment capacity for multiple active roles, working as an extension of your team
Government Contracting search with Award-to-Hire Intelligence — contract-award monitoring that surfaces workforce needs earlier
Industries
Government ContractingProduct, Technology & AIGrowth & EcommerceLeadership & Executive Search
Recruitmint is an international search and recruitment partner for founder-led, growth-stage, and government-contracting organizations, with offices in Orange County, CA and Prishtina, Kosovo. It recruits across product, engineering, and AI roles (including founding engineers), growth and ecommerce leadership, executive and leadership search, and GovCon roles including cleared and OCONUS talent. Offered as full-search or embedded talent-partner engagements. Publisher of this directory; disclosed as the featured listing.
Multi-office staffing and recruiting agency headquartered in San Francisco with a New York office, placing sales, marketing, and business-development talent for startups and larger companies across the US.
AC Lion Group is a New York City-based executive search firm placing growth, GTM, and digital leaders for investor-backed companies, with deep-expertise practices spanning emerging tech/AI, digital media and adtech, MarTech/SaaS, and e-commerce.
Accelerate HC is a boutique recruiting firm specializing exclusively in go-to-market roles for B2B SaaS companies, placing account executives through CRO-level hires for seed-stage through Series C+ clients across fintech, healthtech, martech, HR tech, and cybersecurity verticals.
Activated Scale connects B2B SaaS startups, especially Seed to Series A companies moving beyond founder-led sales, with vetted US-based SDRs, BDRs, account executives, sales operations talent and fractional sales leaders through fractional and contract-to-hire engagements.
AlignedRPO, a division of Aligned Workforce Solutions, offers subscription and hybrid RPO, dedicated recruiters, and nearshore recruiting teams in Central America, serving high-growth startups as well as mid-market and enterprise companies in technology, GTM, healthcare, and other sectors.
Ambacia is a Zagreb-based IT recruitment agency that recruits across Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia for startups building first engineering teams, corporations, and international companies opening Croatian offices. It also offers technical and psychological assessments and employer-of-record services.
Adriatic-region member of the Amrop Partnership with offices in Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade. Provides executive search, leadership assessment and development, board consulting and career transition services.
Apollo Technical is an engineering, IT, and supply-chain recruiting firm with offices across the US Southeast, Texas, and the Midwest, placing candidates from startups through Fortune 500 companies in specialties spanning software engineering, controls engineering, and renewable energy.
Arena Recruiting is an outsourced recruiting firm serving startups, SMBs and law firms. It offers fractional recruiting engagements (typically one to three days a week over 3-6 months), plus contingency, retained and direct-hire IT recruiting.
Athyna is a San Diego talent-matching platform, founded in 2019, for startups and scaling companies hiring remote professionals. It uses AI to connect them with vetted candidates, with a particular focus on talent from Latin America.
Authentech Talent is a boutique recruiting firm running technical, go-to-market, and executive search for startups from Pre-Seed through Series F, offering both embedded TA advisory and success-based placement across AI, fintech, healthtech, and cybersecurity verticals.
Averity is a New York City technical recruiting agency specialized in software engineering, data science/engineering, and DevOps/security hiring, running dedicated recruiting teams for each niche within the NYC tech market.
Avomind is a Berlin-founded recruitment firm placing commercial, strategy and analytics talent for fast-growing companies, with permanent placement, embedded hiring and executive search; it lists hubs in Toronto, Jakarta and Barcelona.
AVP Talent Solutions is a founder-led recruitment and talent advisory firm in Bengaluru covering niche, leadership and contract hiring for companies in India, the Middle East and the United States. It offers RPO and fractional Head of Talent engagements for startups before their first TA hire.
Axe Recruiting runs a SaaS sales recruiting practice placing SDRs, BDRs, account executives, customer success and sales leaders for B2B SaaS companies from Series A through public, with permanent, per-seat and retained search models and offices across the US, Canada, UK, UAE and Singapore.
Balkan Hire is a boutique recruiting agency (Efficient Hire LLC) that sources and vets remote candidates from Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, and North Macedonia for growing startups and SMEs, covering marketing, finance, operations, and general business roles.
Bulgaria-based recruitment and HR consultancy offering executive search, IT and sales recruiting, and dedicated-team RPO. It serves SMEs in Germany, Switzerland and Austria from a Bulgarian delivery center.
International recruitment agency providing executive search and headhunting for senior professionals across Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia.
San Francisco Bay Area sales recruitment agency founded by David Berk, placing VP Sales, CRO, Account Executive, SDR/BDR, RevOps, and Customer Success leaders for B2B SaaS startups and scale-ups from first sales hire through a full revenue leadership team.
Boutique recruitment agency supporting startups and scale-ups, from seed to Series C+, across product, tech and data, go-to-market and central-function roles. Describes an embedded, sprint-style hiring model. HQ and regions need confirmation (site publishes European hiring-trend content); listed unverified. Source: bergsearch.com.
Hiring a CRO or VP Sales? Bespoke Partners is an Austin sales recruiting and executive search firm, founded in 2011, for CRO, CMO and VP-level revenue leaders at PE- and venture-backed SaaS and software companies.
Bestwin Recruiting provides on-demand recruiters for startups, SMEs and growing companies in three models: a part-time fractional recruiter, a full-time embedded recruiter, and a multi-recruiter embedded team that works inside the client's ATS and hiring process. It lists offices in Santa Fe, New Mexico (US) and Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
Betts Recruiting is a go-to-market recruiting agency headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, Denver, Miami, Seattle, and Toronto, placing sales, marketing, and customer success talent for startups from pre-seed through Series D via contingency search, executive search, and a recruiter-subscription (RaaS) model.
Black & Grey HR is a people advisory firm operating globally that offers executive search, sector-desk recruitment and remote RPO, with embedded recruiters working under the client's brand and systems. RPO models include full, project, selective and on-demand recruiters, aimed at high-growth companies and new-market entrants.
Bloom Talent is a woman-owned boutique recruiting agency based in San Francisco that partners with early-stage startups, venture capital firms, and established tech companies to fill senior and executive roles through a relationship-driven, white-glove search process.
Bolster is a New York-headquartered executive talent marketplace, founded by the former leadership team of Return Path, that matches CEOs of startups and scaleups with full-time, fractional, interim, and board executives through a combination of experienced recruiters and a sourcing platform.
Bonell Ryan is a boutique, retained executive search firm based in New York serving the FinTech, Payments, and SaaS industries, placing transformational leadership talent for both Fortune 500 clients and early- and late-stage startups.
Buenos Aires-based firm that finds tech leaders for LatAm digital companies and startups, from strategic middle management to C-suite, using a four-pillar evaluation of people leadership, technical management, project execution and product development. Site also lists hiring and fractional HR offerings.
Boundly is a solo founder-led boutique GTM recruitment agency for global B2B SaaS companies, placing sales, marketing, and customer success roles from pre-seed through enterprise, run by founder Connor Jones who has worked both as an agency recruiter and in-house talent lead.
Boyden Serbia is the Belgrade office of global executive search firm Boyden, serving clients in Southeast and Eastern Europe. Boyden's capabilities include executive search, interim management, CEO and board services, assessment and succession planning, with technology, fintech and private equity/venture capital practices.
Bucharest-based technology recruitment firm, founded in 2001 as Romania's first specialised tech recruiter. Offers executive search, per-role search, time-boxed recruitment sprints, Recruitment as a Service (embedded recruiters, also known as RPO), contracting, Employer of Record and build-operate-transfer programs, plus annual talent-intelligence reports. Delivers across Europe and Africa; client work skews to tech and business-services centers.
bubb is a recruitment company with offices in London, San Francisco, and Krakow offering embedded recruitment, onsite and global RPO, direct-hire staffing, executive search, and employer branding for startups, scale-ups, and enterprises across sales, technology, and engineering roles.
Built4Startups is a talent-acquisition consulting practice led by a former Head of Talent Acquisition, helping seed to Series A founders fix hiring execution through role calibration, structured interviews, hiring-manager coaching, and fractional hiring leadership.
Cadre is a boutique San Francisco Bay Area software engineering recruiting firm serving high-growth startups since 2007, deliberately capped at fifteen recruiters, sourcing candidates directly rather than through job postings.
Captivate Talent is a recruiting firm dedicated to revenue roles at high-growth SaaS companies, placing sales, marketing, customer success, and RevOps talent from individual contributors through executive leadership, working with US and Canada-based teams.
Carex Consulting Group is a recruiting firm with a decade-long healthtech practice placing implementation & onboarding, customer success, product & project management, sales & marketing, and engineering/data/DevOps talent for healthtech, digital health, and health-and-wellness startups scaling from around 30 to 500+ employees.
Chasen Talent is a solo founder-led boutique search firm running engineering, revenue, and go-to-market searches for early-stage to growth startups in California, New York, and remote, with every search handled personally by founder Chasen Nick from intake through close.
Sales and GTM recruiting firm for seed and Series A startups, placing founding AEs/BDRs, marketing, VP Sales/Revenue leadership, sales engineers, and CSMs, with vertical experience across cybersecurity, fintech, healthtech, and vertical SaaS.
Software sales recruitment agency led by founder Thomas Murgatroyd, placing SDRs, mid-market and enterprise account executives, and sales leaders at B2B SaaS and AI-led software companies, primarily in the US with UK and EU coverage. Works on a success-based model and sources by mapping top performers at competitor vendors.
Clutch Talent is a technical recruiting firm with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, offering software engineering hiring, embedded recruitment, talent representation, and strategic consulting for startups and tech companies.
Making your first technical hires with no recruiter on staff? Coastal Recruiting is a boutique Los Angeles engineering and product recruiter for early-stage, VC-backed startups at exactly that point.
Combine places vetted tech, product and go-to-market talent from Latin America with US and European teams, with direct hire, outsourcing and confidential executive search for VP and C-level engineering, product and GTM roles across LATAM. Serves companies from early stage through enterprise.
Confido provides interim and fractional talent acquisition leadership for VC- and PE-backed startups from seed to Series C, covering hiring strategy, ATS selection, interview design, first TA hire support and hands-on recruiting. Its site lists UK-based startup clients; HQ is not stated.
Not ready for a full-time recruiter? Crucial Recruiting is a Seattle fractional and embedded recruiting agency for pre-seed to Series A startups. A dedicated recruiter joins your team to run sourcing and hiring, scaled with hiring volume.
Daversa Partners is a New York executive search firm for venture-backed tech startups hiring leaders at Series A-C and beyond. Its case studies name clients such as OpenAI, Brex and Cursor, so you can check its work before you call.
Recruiter and talent partner for startups, scale-ups, venture studios and investors, offering fractional recruitment, founder and leadership search, and hiring-process advisory. Part of does recruitment.
Dover is a hiring platform for startups that combines a marketplace of independent fractional recruiters with a free applicant tracking system and sourcing tools. Startups can engage recruiters for sourcing, screening, scheduling or full-cycle recruiting across engineering, sales, design and other roles.
DRH Search is a solo-founder recruiting firm connecting talent with venture-backed startups from seed through Series B, placing candidates across software engineering, sales, marketing, GTM, talent acquisition, data science, product, and finance functions.
Early Stage Talent is a boutique agency founded by Ryan Sapper specializing in early engineering, product, and go-to-market hiring for startups, offering individual-contributor search, fractional recruiting leadership, and executive search.
EC1 Partners is a global FinTech recruitment agency with offices in London, New York, Miami, and Singapore, placing permanent, contract, and executive-search talent across electronic trading, capital markets software, regtech, payments, lending, and crypto/digital assets for FinTech companies.
eCRM Euro is a specialist European talent acquisition firm with offices in London, Amsterdam and Berlin. It offers fractional TA leadership (a director-level leader embedded part-time, typically 2-4 days a week), embedded recruiters, EOR/PEO advisory and talent market intelligence, with sector focus on fintech, SaaS, AI/ML, cybersecurity and healthtech.
Edison & Black is a New York City-based IT consulting and technical staffing firm offering tech and sales recruiting solutions alongside enterprise platform consulting (ServiceNow, Salesforce, AI/ML), placing engineering and go-to-market talent for growth-stage technology companies.
Eleve Talent offers embedded recruitment and fractional Head of Talent support to early-stage, VC-backed startups, covering hiring roadmaps, team design, interview process, and recruiting execution on a monthly retainer model.
Embedded TA provides on-demand, embedded recruiting for startups and growing companies, plugging into the client's team for full-cycle recruiting, sourcing strategy, candidate experience design and hiring process optimization. It also offers strategic talent advisory and executive and niche search.
UK technology recruiter for start-ups and scale-ups across Europe, specialising in software engineers. Offers fully embedded recruitment, a flexible part-time embedded option, and one-off candidate search.
EqualAccess is a New York recruiting and executive search firm built by former startup operators, placing founding engineers, SDRs/AEs, customer success, and ops hires for early-stage companies using behavioral-assessment-backed screening.
ETHOS is a talent solutions and executive and board search firm that also offers startup advisory services covering talent strategy, culture building, and hiring plans and budgeting. Headquarters and size were not stated on the page reviewed.
Excelsior Search is a global executive search and recruitment firm focused exclusively on fintech vendors serving capital markets and investment technology, data, and research providers, recruiting executive management, sales, marketing, professional services, and product development talent across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
Fabric Staffing is a recruitment-as-a-service (RaaS) provider, operating since 2016, that helps founders, VCs and high-growth companies scale engineering and product teams with dedicated candidate pipelines.
FinCircles is a fintech-focused talent partner that sources engineering, growth, operations, and risk/compliance specialists from the Balkans (Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece) and embeds them in client teams via staff augmentation, dedicated teams, fractional specialists, or project delivery.
FindIT Recruitment is a Belgrade-based agency that combines HR expertise with IT knowledge to recruit developers and other tech professionals for companies hiring in Serbia, with a process built around a tech-background brief, culture brief and job description before candidate selection.
Forsberg Talent is a solo fractional talent practice led by Annie Forsberg, a former Carta recruiting leader. It offers fractional Head of Talent leadership, strategic recruiting, hiring infrastructure and talent operations, and talent strategy and org design for scaling startups.
Forwardly Partners provides embedded RPO for scaling SaaS companies: a senior recruiter joins the client team and owns the hiring process across engineering, product, GTM, operations and people roles. It recruits for distributed teams across the US, Latin America and Europe in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and also offers full-cycle search.
Founders Connect is a startup recruiting agency for venture-backed teams from pre-seed through Series D, focused on go-to-market roles such as account executives, SDRs, marketing, and revenue operations.
Fractal (Fractal Talent Limited, registered in England & Wales) is a network of sector-specialised in-house recruiters deployed on demand to start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs, enterprises, and agencies, on contingent, retained, project, or embedded models.
Fractional Recruiting Co. embeds senior recruiters inside post-funding AI and SaaS startups on a flexible hourly basis, running full-cycle hiring for engineering, AI/ML, product, design, and go-to-market roles, plus ATS setup and hiring-manager training.
FractionalRecruiter, a service of Forrest Johnson Recruiting, provides part-time recruiting for small businesses and lean HR teams, covering passive talent sourcing, pipeline management, executive search, and recruiting operations (RecOps).
GENTY recruitment is a Latin America-focused recruitment agency helping US and European startups hire tech, sales, and leadership talent across 14 LATAM countries, offering IT recruitment, sales recruitment, RPO, and executive search services.
Golden Gate Recruiting is a boutique San Francisco staffing agency running full-cycle recruiting for early-stage startups across engineering, product, sales, marketing, operations and legal roles, with the person running the search owning the hire.
Gratus Group is a Denver-based staffing and IT services firm with nationwide coverage. Its staffing practices include technical IT, sales, and professional hiring, plus a fractional recruiting service that embeds a recruiter in the client's team and ATS on a flexible weekly-hours basis.
GTM Hunters is a precision recruiting firm exclusively focused on revenue roles for VC-backed SaaS and AI companies from Series A through Series D, placing Account Executives, SDRs, GTM leadership, RevOps, and AI GTM talent.
Boutique executive search firm placing GTM leadership (CRO, CMO, VP Sales, VP Marketing, RevOps, first sellers) for SaaS and tech scale-ups, plus nonprofit executive search, with partners covering North America and EMEA for cross-border searches.
Specialist recruiter of People & Talent professionals (including internal recruiters) for tech scale-ups across Europe and North America, with recruiters in London, New York, San Francisco and Miami. Offers permanent and fixed-term placement plus fractional and embedded People & Talent expertise.
HC Solutions is an IT recruitment and HR outsourcing company based in Serbia, placing developers, DevOps, QA and IT project managers for international clients, and also offering outsourced recruitment and HR operations, relocation support, and help setting up development hubs in Serbia.
HCR Digital is a fractional recruiter and embedded talent partner for VC-backed startups, led by Leo Tognetti, hiring product, engineering, and design talent across Europe, the US, and Latin America.
People advisory and retained executive search firm serving Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and the wider Balkan region, also offering talent acquisition, assessment and salary mapping.
Herd Freed Hartz is a Seattle retained executive search firm with a Pacific Northwest focus (Seattle, Portland, Alaska) and national search reach. It recruits leaders across functions including CEO, CFO, COO, CRO/sales, CTO/engineering, CMO, VP Product, and HR/talent, with technology and startups among the industries it serves.
Bristol-based fractional talent partner led by founder Helen Sanders, who embeds into small and growing UK and US businesses as an outsourced head of talent. Covers hiring strategy, full-cycle recruiting, employer brand and candidate-experience advisory; also offers project-based hiring and GTM hiring.
High Slope Recruiting is a founder-led firm placing engineering and executive talent, including staff and principal engineers, ML researchers, and founding technical leads, at Series A-C startups.
Hire Ventures offers subscription-based fractional and embedded recruiting delivered by U.S.-based recruiters who work inside the client's applicant tracking system, alongside fractional HR services. It also provides executive and priority searches at Director, VP and C-level.
Hire With Near is an Austin staffing and recruiting agency, founded in 2021, for U.S. startups hiring remote professionals in Latin America. It handles sourcing, vetting, and compliance support, and offers recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) in which a dedicated recruiter plugs into the client's existing interview process.
Hired By Startups is a boutique London recruitment agency, founded in 2017, for early-stage and high-growth startups in Europe. It places go-to-market talent across sales, marketing, and customer success.
Boutique go-to-market talent search and advisory firm for growing B2B companies. Runs GTM searches (SDR/BDR, account executives, sales leadership, customer success) with structured, assessment-backed evaluation, and offers a GTM Talent Advisory service that designs hiring systems and trains internal recruiters and hiring managers. Founded in 2018 by Anwar Allen.
HireKosovo is a structured international hiring firm sourcing AI-fluent, tech, and creative talent from Kosovo and the Balkans for venture-backed startups and scaling companies, offering both self-directed platform access and full-service role architecture, sourcing, and vetting engagements.
Hirewell is a Chicago-headquartered recruiting firm offering executive search, volume and single-hire recruiting, recruitment process outsourcing (full-time or fractional), interim embedded recruiters, and talent and HR advisory, with practices across technology, go-to-market, HR, and finance and a SaaS industry focus.
Sofia-based recruitment and HR consulting firm operating since 2003. Services include full-cycle recruitment, executive search, headhunting, IT recruitment (software, data, AI, infrastructure), Recruitment as a Service (outsourced sourcing, screening and hiring coordination) and Employer of Record in Bulgaria.
Recruitment and workforce firm with headquarters in Prishtina, Skopje and Tirana. Offers executive search and headhunting, full-cycle recruitment, mass recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing, staff leasing, payroll and market entry support across Southeast Europe.
Hunt Club is a Chicago executive search and talent advisory firm, founded in 2014, for VC- and PE-backed companies including Series A-C. It finds leaders through expert referrals and AI-assisted relationship mapping.
IA TechForce Talent is a founder-led nearshore IT recruitment firm based in Costa Rica that helps U.S. startups and growing companies hire engineers and cybersecurity professionals across Latin America. Services include full-cycle recruitment, an embedded recruiter model, HR services and hiring strategy advisory, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Licensed Sofia recruitment agency operating since 2009, with an RPO service in which a dedicated specialist sources, screens and shortlists while the client interviews and hires directly. Focus areas are IT, finance and accounting, BPO, marketing and executive roles; supports English, Bulgarian and German. Also offers executive search, staff leasing and Employer of Record in Bulgaria.
ISG Partners (Hawn Holdings LLC DBA ISG Partners) is an embedded recruitment firm offering on-demand recruiters, Talent as a Service, to venture-backed startups across Series A, B, and C stages, including technical and AI/ML hiring.
Founder-owned British recruitment firm, founded in 2018, that blends RPO with embedded recruiting teams. Its published solutions include fractional hiring, agile RPO and embedded talent solutions for startups through multinationals, with a remote-first team serving clients internationally.
Kandreys Group is a boutique retained search firm that takes on a limited number of searches at a time, helping founders build founding and leadership teams, with focus areas in AI and vertical AI software, defense and deep tech, healthcare technology and cybersecurity.
Konfer Executive Group offers a fractional Head of Talent / embedded talent operator service for Series A–C founders across DACH, the UK and APAC, covering sourcing pipelines, interview systems and hiring infrastructure. It also lists executive search, recruitment as a service and interim management. Registered address is in Frankfurt, Germany.
KORE1 is an Irvine, California staffing and recruiting firm founded in 2005. It offers direct hire, contract and project-based staffing across the U.S., with technology specialties including software, AI/ML, cloud, DevOps and data engineering, plus a startup staffing service.
Latam Staffers helps U.S.-based startups hire tech talent from Latin America, offering recruiting, staff augmentation, and dedicated LATAM-based development teams with engineer-led vetting.
LatamCent is a nearshore staffing and recruiting agency that places Latin American AI/ML and software engineers, customer success, GTM, finance and marketing talent with US AI and SaaS teams, offering direct hire and a talent-as-a-service model with contractor-of-record payroll.
Latinum HR Solutions is a recruitment company with teams in India and the UAE, founded in 2014. It offers executive search, RPO and startup hiring/scaling on a fixed retainer, plus staffing, covering mid-senior and leadership roles in IT, cybersecurity, BFSI, real estate and retail across India, the GCC and international mandates.
Retained GTM search firm focused on Series A and Series B venture-backed startups, placing enterprise sales/presales, marketing, and C-suite GTM leadership across DevTools, cybersecurity, and AI/ML companies in the US and EMEA.
Linkus Group is a Toronto recruiting firm for startups and SMBs offering executive search, passive-candidate recruiting, and talent advisory services including talent audits, employer branding, offer negotiation coaching, retention strategy, and hiring-process and ATS design.
Littlemore Recruiting is a senior-led San Francisco search firm offering fractional and embedded recruiting, project-based sourcing, and hiring strategy for startups and growth-stage companies, with proven work across AI, health tech, fintech, and B2B SaaS.
Lupa Hire is a tech recruiting agency placing pre-vetted engineers and digital professionals from Latin America with US companies, offering recruiting, staffing and RPO and sending curated shortlists of 3-4 candidates per role.
LuRecruiter is a solo-led IT headhunting practice in Lima, Peru, run by recruiter Lucero Lamas, placing engineers, data/AI specialists, product managers and technical leaders from across 14 Latin American countries at US and LATAM startups, from pre-seed to Series B.
Magenta is a remote staffing and recruiting agency that helps founders and high-growth startups hire full-time and virtual-assistant talent from Latin America, with full-cycle candidate management and a proprietary LATAM candidate database.
Marathon Talent is a LATAM-focused recruiting and Talent-as-a-Service firm. It offers full-cycle recruitment, fractional people and talent strategy where a consultant embeds with the client's team, plus salary and market studies, for US companies hiring bilingual talent in Latin America.
Masarna provides recruiting support for founder-led startups and growth companies through three models: success-based search, embedded recruiting, and fractional talent leadership. It also advises on workforce planning and hiring-process design.
Mason Bedford is a UK embedded recruitment and RPO consultancy, founded in 2018 by Calvin Botez. It embeds recruiters and builds hiring processes for Series A-C and scale-up companies, mainly in tech, SaaS, fintech, and digital media, and also offers talent strategy consulting.
Recruiting firm focused on Brazil, run by founder Mariana Mavila (former VP of Talent Marketplace at Andela). Offers three tracks: tech roles, business roles, and executive search for directors, VPs and C-level, which Mariana runs personally. Serves Brazilian and US companies and founders hiring in Brazil.
MBI Talent Group offers executive search, tech and sales recruiting, and a Fractional Headhunters service in which an experienced headhunter embeds with a client's team on a flexible monthly basis. Its site says it pioneered the fractional model in Latin America and lists offices including Querétaro, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Milan, and San Jose, CA.
McKenzie Recruiting is a women-owned, SAM.gov-registered fractional recruiting and executive search firm working with startups, SaaS companies, tech firms, marketing agencies, and government contractors across insurance, technology, aviation, manufacturing, and other specialized functions.
Meghan Clare is a boutique leadership search and talent advisory firm for high-growth technology founders. It offers retained C-suite and VP search, talent advisory on org design, compensation benchmarking and hiring roadmaps, plus hourly support and ad hoc recruiting projects. The founder operates between Bozeman, MT and San Francisco, CA.
Merot is a Balkans-based outsourcing company whose recruitment service sources, screens, and delivers shortlists for engineering, sales, and operations roles across North Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, and Serbia, running searches up to head-of-engineering/VP-engineering level.
Métier Talent Partners embeds experienced talent acquisition professionals directly into startups, growing companies, and established organizations, offering recruiting strategy, employment brand support, full-cycle recruiting, and scalable recruiting capacity, including for technology and AI roles.
MindHunt is a recruiting agency serving Ukraine and Europe that offers a month-to-month fractional recruiter service for startups with weekly activity reporting, alongside headhunting and executive search including CTO and CFO recruitment and AI engineer hiring.
Motive is a boutique retained executive search firm placing C- and VP-level technology, product, data, marketing and finance leaders for venture-backed and technology clients in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and APAC.
Near Horizons sources, evaluates and embeds pre-vetted Latin American software engineers into U.S. startup teams, covering full-stack, backend, frontend, QA, DevOps, mobile and data/AI roles in US-aligned time zones. It also offers forward-deployed AI engineering.
Nearshore Business Solutions is a recruitment and staffing partner that helps U.S. companies hire in Latin America across 12 markets. Its service lines include remote talent acquisition, in-country recruitment, Recruitment as a Service (a dedicated recruiter on retainer) and staff augmentation, covering developers, IT, finance, sales and customer support roles.
Nederlia is a venture capital-focused executive search firm specializing in early-stage startups, from seed to Series B, placing C-suite and VP-level leaders across tech hubs in Europe and the UK.
Neon Talent is a subscription-based fractional recruiting firm that embeds recruiters with startups on a monthly basis to fill executive, technical, and operations roles, with active placement work across San Francisco, Austin, New York, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, and Miami.
Founder-led technology talent advisory boutique in Italy working with startups and scale-ups across Europe. Engagements are structured mandates (contingency or exclusive) built around mandate definition, market mapping, shortlist control and execution oversight.
NOSSA is a recruiting and global people-ops firm focused on go-to-market and business operations talent for companies from Series A to enterprise. It offers direct placement, embedded recruiting (RPO) and employer-of-record support, with a talent pool spanning the U.S. and South Africa.
nSky Solutions (nSky Recruitment Agency) offers startup talent advisory for early-stage founders: choosing a recruiting model (in-house, contract, or outsourced), building candidate pipelines, and designing scalable talent acquisition strategy, alongside global recruitment services focused on engineering teams.
Nxt Level runs retained executive search for VC-backed startups, covering VP Engineering, CTO, VP Product, CFO, COO, CMO and CRO roles from Series A through Series D+, alongside engineering and product recruiting.
Omnes Group is an IT-focused recruitment firm sourcing developers in Serbia, offering pay-per-hire, pay-per-stay and recruiter-as-a-service models with focus areas in AI, Web3, SaaS, GTM and Fintech.
ON Partners is a partner-led executive search firm running C-suite and senior leadership searches for venture-backed and growth-stage companies, with venture work concentrated in software and SaaS, consumer, AI, digital health, and semiconductors, from Series A through pre-IPO.
On The Hook Recruiting offers fractional recruiters alongside executive and retained search and contingency recruiting across the United States, covering sales, software and AI, engineering, finance, manufacturing and construction roles.
Opal Search Partners is a New York-based boutique executive search and advisory firm placing C-suite, board, and VP leaders in product, engineering, go-to-market, and operations roles for mission-driven, venture-backed startups, using a proprietary candidate-mapping tool called Opal Loupe.
Paul Wilkin is an independent contract, fractional and embedded recruiter supporting SaaS, software and AI startups across the UK, US and EMEA. His site lists go-to-market, revenue and customer success hiring as the main focus, with hourly or day-rate engagements and no percentage placement fees.
PeopleFirst Talent Partners (formerly PeopleFirst Agency) is a founder-led tech recruiting boutique in Buenos Aires, founded by Carla Costantini. It recruits senior engineering, data, AI and AdTech talent for startups and scale-ups across Latin America, the US and Europe.
Pipeline Recruiters is a SaaS sales and go-to-market recruiting agency that helps startups across Canada and the US hire SDRs, BDRs, account executives and revenue leaders, from early-stage seed companies to Series B and C.
Want a leadership search run by people who have worked at startups? Plenty Search is a boutique New York firm for early-stage and Series A-C companies. It was founded by former startup operators and runs a smaller caseload per recruiter than traditional retained firms.
Sarajevo-based recruitment agency focused on IT and BPO hiring across the Western Balkans. Offers retained and contingency search, embedded RPO, and recruiter-on-demand. Operates Talentor Western Balkans, an executive search division of the Talentor network.
Position is a boutique retained executive search firm in Nashville, founded in 2018, placing senior leaders for venture-backed companies from pre-seed to Series D across consumer, hardtech, crypto/fintech, and SaaS.
Potential Hire Consulting is a Princeton, NJ talent advisory and recruitment firm with a Dubai office, serving the US and UAE markets. It offers strategic talent advisory, executive and leadership hiring, and end-to-end recruitment across industries including startups and technology.
Readyloop is a boutique talent consultancy offering recruitment advisory to startups and scaleups: talent operations strategy, executive search, employer branding, structured interview design, interviewer training and AI-enabled recruiting infrastructure, via hour blocks, retainers or hourly advisory.
Recruit Adria (RecruitAdria LTD) is a founder-led recruitment agency that sources, screens, and shortlists remote professionals from Southeast Europe (including Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia) for remote-first and growing companies, including tech and crypto startups. Roles span IT, sales and marketing, customer support, and finance and operations.
Recruiting from Scratch is a technical recruiting firm that pairs software-driven sourcing with recruiters focused on engineering hires, working with companies from seed stage through Series D.
Recruits Lab embeds recruiting teams (senior technical recruiter, sourcer, coordinator, and recruiting ops) inside venture-backed startups and growth companies, alongside hybrid, retained, and contingency search. Its practice concentrates on AI/ML, software engineering, SaaS go-to-market, cybersecurity, and life sciences hiring across the US.
Refery is a startup recruiting network for VC-backed Seed to Series B companies hiring engineering, AI, and go-to-market talent, combining specialist independent recruiters with referrals from founders, operators, and investors.
RemoteEngine offers recruitment process outsourcing through dedicated recruiting pods embedded in a client's ATS and hiring workflow, with enterprise, project and on-demand models. It focuses on engineering, AI/ML, data, security, product and sales-engineering roles and also provides employer-of-record services for global hires.
Rheaction is a boutique recruiting firm headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York and Denver, specializing in design, product, and technical leadership placements for venture-backed startups, including Series A-B companies competing for engineering talent.
Independent talent acquisition consultant in Düsseldorf offering embedded recruiting, executive search, and recruiting consulting to startups, scale-ups and established businesses across Europe, with core focus on Germany, Austria and Switzerland and sector experience in MedTech, engineering, technology and renewable energy.
UK recruiter working with early-stage technology startups since 1987, placing founding engineers, AI engineers, senior developers and CTOs in London, Oxford, Birmingham and the M3/M4 corridor, plus remote roles. Also covers scaleup and SME recruitment.
Hiring a VP Engineering, head of product or security lead? Riviera Partners is a San Francisco executive search firm, founded in 2001, for tech leadership at venture-backed companies from seed to scale.
Rocket (Neatly Technologies, Inc.) is an AI-native recruiting firm started in San Francisco with additional teams in Toronto and New York, placing engineering, product, go-to-market, and executive roles for high-growth, VC-backed startups from Series A through IPO via contingency, executive search, and embedded models.
RPOPRO offers full-time and fractional RPO, engaged contingent search and retained executive search for startups and growing companies, with a client portal for pipeline visibility. It recruits across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America for GTM, technical, finance, legal and operations roles.
s1 is a GTM-only recruiting firm for AI and SaaS startups, placing account executives, SDRs, and sales leaders from seed through Series D, run by former GTM operators from companies including Intercom and Contentsquare.
SaaS Talent is a recruiting firm for SaaS and tech companies, placing go-to-market (AE, SDR, CS, marketing), AI/engineering and executive talent in the United States and Latin America through retained search, contingent recruiting, contract placements, and staff augmentation.
Sales Talent Inc. is a software and SaaS sales recruiting firm that headhunts SDRs, account executives, sales leaders, customer success, sales operations and marketing talent in the US and Canada for seed through Series C and PE-funded SaaS companies.
Berlin-based recruiting firm offering embedded talent partners who hire exclusively for a client's team, plus a dedicated search service for niche or senior roles. Case studies cover early-stage engineering hiring and data and go-to-market hiring sprints for European companies.
Schultz Staffing is a founder-led fractional recruiting practice that embeds with VC-backed startups, pre-seed to Series A, as their in-house recruiter. It runs personalized outreach from the client's own inbox, and the founder, Erich Schultz, previously recruited in-house at Earnest, Rutter, and Forethought.
Scion Executive Search runs retained executive search for founder-led, venture-backed, angel-backed and growth-stage companies, recruiting CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CTOs, CROs and product, marketing and people leaders from seed through pre-IPO.
Scion Staffing is a San Francisco-headquartered temporary staffing, contingency search, and executive recruitment firm that has served Bay Area employers since 2006, including startups and technology companies alongside finance, healthcare, nonprofit, and other sectors.
Search Talent Pros is a Latin American talent firm, part of Grupo SEARCHiN, offering executive search, talent mapping, assessments, outplacement and tech talent, with local teams in 8 countries across the region.
SecureVision provides recruitment process outsourcing delivered as embedded recruiting for high-growth, venture-backed tech and SaaS companies from seed stage through IPO. It runs GTM, technical, and G&A hiring, with core business in North America and global coverage across Latin America, EMEA, and APAC.
Shields Group Search is a New York City-based executive recruiting firm specializing in startup and scale-up hiring, providing executive and technical talent acquisition for venture-backed companies from Seed through Series C across SaaS, fintech, healthtech, and Web3.
Skinner & Associates is a boutique health tech recruiting firm placing mid, senior, and executive-level talent for health tech startups and established companies, offering retained, contingency, hybrid, and contract-to-hire placement models.
Zagreb-based HR firm offering Smart RPO, Smart Executive Search, Smart Professional Search and Smart IT recruitment, plus payroll and Employer of Record services in Croatia. Its site says it has offered recruitment solutions for more than 15 years, aimed at medium-sized and large organisations; RPO capacity is described as scalable up or down with hiring volume.
Solara Talent is a New York-focused technical recruiting firm that helps venture-backed startups hire software engineers, product managers, designers, and growth talent using a proprietary sourcing platform called Recruiter OS.
Need a C-level or board hire? SPMB is a San Francisco executive search firm, founded in 1977, that recruits for technology, consumer and health companies, from startups through public companies.
Solo-operator technical recruiting practice based in the San Francisco Bay Area (also working New York City), specializing in AI/LLM and software founding-engineer hires for seed through Series A/B startups, with 20 years of Bay Area recruiting experience and the last decade focused on startups.
Stanton Chase is a large, Baltimore-based global executive search and leadership consulting firm, founded in 1990. Its startups-and-scale-ups practice recruits C-level and board talent for Series A-D venture-backed and private equity-owned companies.
Start Up Talent runs an embedded recruiting and HR support model alongside a fractional Strategic Advisement service for Seed-through-Series E tech startups, handling full-cycle technical and executive hiring and advising on the talent function itself; clients include HoneyBook and Collective.
Start Wise Hires is a remote-first, US-based recruiting firm helping early-stage and scaling tech startups hire across fintech, AI, biotech, blockchain, and cybersecurity, offering hiring services, recruitment outsourcing, and hiring-strategy consulting.
StartupTAP is a Los Angeles recruiting consultancy that works with startups on executive and individual-contributor hiring, engineering and non-technical roles, and management infrastructure. Its site states 11 years in business and 295 clients across 8 countries.
StartupX is a recruiting firm for Seed to Series A startups in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, focused on go-to-market and revenue roles such as account executives, SDRs/BDRs, inside sales, revenue operations, and partnerships, with customer success and early-stage ops hires also covered. It works on a success-fee-only basis.
Storm2 is a FinTech-focused recruitment and executive search firm placing AI/data, software engineering, finance & operations, legal, product, risk & compliance, and sales & marketing talent for FinTech companies from founding teams through public/late-stage, covering verticals from digital banking to payments, lending, and crypto.
Storm3 is a HealthTech-focused recruitment and executive search firm placing data & analytics, engineering, AI/ML, product management, and go-to-market talent for HealthTech companies from founding teams through late-stage and public, covering sub-sectors from digital health to AI drug discovery and biotech.
SwingSearch is a startup recruiting firm focused on Series A-D companies. It places startup leadership, executive team members and individual contributors, with go-to-market expertise, and works with venture capital partners on portfolio hiring.
TableCrowd Talent is a specialist recruitment agency for startups and scaleups, placing graduates, professionals and C-level executives across London, the UK and Europe.
Retained executive search boutique focused exclusively on technology and digital leadership roles across Latin America, with partner-led searches from its São Paulo office.
Talent Fountain is an executive search, tech recruitment and talent management consulting firm for early-stage startups, working with select VC firms, accelerators and incubators. It offers critical-hire executive search, recruitment-as-a-service and consulting/workshops, with offices in Paris, London and Warsaw.
Collective of talent advisors offering fractional talent leadership, hiring infrastructure (including Ashby ATS implementation) and talent search for early-stage tech companies, from pre-seed founding hires through Series A scaling.
Talent Vine is a small New York-based search firm founded by three former Palantir recruiters that runs retained search and hiring-partnership engagements for forward-deployed engineering, technical/product leadership, and business-leadership roles at growing startups.
Want specialist recruiters inside your team? Talentful is a London-based embedded recruiting and RPO firm, founded in 2015. It adds AI-driven sourcing and works across Europe and North America.
TalentMinted is a boutique IT recruitment partner for startups and growing tech teams hiring software engineers, AI specialists and technical leaders across EU countries, wider Europe, Ukraine, Canada and selected US searches, including embedded and defense-tech roles.
Talento Consulting AI is a Los Angeles-based talent consultancy specializing in go-to-market, product, and engineering hiring for early-stage and high-growth tech startups, offering embedded RPO, hiring sprints, and retained search from seed through pre-IPO, serving LA, San Francisco, New York, and London.
Sarajevo-based IT and BPO recruitment agency and Talentor International partner offering retained and contingency search, embedded RPO, recruiter-on-demand, and a Western Balkans executive search division.
Tangerine Search is a San Francisco Bay Area-headquartered boutique recruiting and fractional HR firm serving startups and growth-stage tech teams, offering startup recruiting, technical recruiting, executive search, embedded/RPO support, and fractional HR across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Teamcubate (Teamcubate ApS) describes itself as a team incubator that hires tech talent for global startups and growth companies, mainly in IT, marketing and finance. It has a Belgrade, Serbia hub and recruits remote developers for long-term projects with North European growth companies, with offices also listed in Aarhus, Amsterdam and Copenhagen.
Tech StaQ is a tech recruitment firm with offices in Barcelona and Amsterdam. It offers embedded recruitment (RPO) with a dedicated recruiter inside the client team on a monthly model, plus specialist headhunting for software, platform, AI/ML and data engineers and technical leadership, and employer-of-record hiring in Spain.
Techy Recruiter is a boutique tech recruitment consultancy based in Cairo, Egypt, serving funded startups and scale-ups across Europe and the Gulf region. It offers embedded recruitment, sourcing-as-a-service, and hiring-process design.
Teilur Talent is a nearshore staffing agency connecting US and Canadian companies with pre-vetted tech professionals across Latin America, covering software engineering, design, and other technical roles through an in-house vetting and matching process.
Tenzor AI Talent is a Raleigh, NC firm placing AI, ML and data science talent. For founders and VC portfolios it offers talent advisory covering role architecture, compensation benchmarking, employer brand and a phased hiring roadmap for first technical hires, plus contract staffing.
Building a distributed engineering team? Terminal is a San Francisco engineering recruiting platform for growth-stage companies. It places engineers, AI/ML developers and engineering managers in Canada, Latin America and Europe, and offers employer-of-record services.
Tessera Partners is a founder-led recruitment and headhunting firm for Latin American talent, with an office in Argentina. It runs executive search, senior and tech recruiting, remote hiring, RPO and embedded recruiting, and a startup recruiting partner service for founding-team and first leadership hires, for US and European companies hiring in Latin America.
Independent commercial and technical IT recruiter focused on the Netherlands and Germany (Amsterdam and Berlin), working with start-ups, scale-ups and multinationals across cloud, data, engineering, product and go-to-market roles.
Recruiting firm for SaaS and tech teams focused on sales leaders, AEs and SDRs, plus AI/ML and data talent. Site states sales recruiting experience since 2014 and offers monthly-capacity, milestone-search, and fractional programs.
The Paper Kite Company is a talent advisory and executive search firm, founded in 2012, working with tech-driven startups and high-growth companies. It runs searches for CTO, product, engineering, growth and operations leadership, and also handles compensation and equity calibration and offer-stage management.
The Right Hire Latam is a boutique staffing and recruitment firm for tech and SaaS roles, with offices in San José (Costa Rica), Panama City and Mexico City. Services include executive staffing, rapid team staffing and strategic talent advisory on critical roles and organizational structure.
The Search Experience (TSE) is a San Francisco-based startup recruitment agency that partners with venture-backed founders from Seed through Series C to build go-to-market, technical, and design teams, working with companies backed by firms such as Sequoia, Greylock, and SoftBank.
The Startup Talent Agency is a recruiting firm founded by a CHRO that works only with startups. It recruits across engineering and product, go-to-market, executive and leadership, and G&A roles.
The Talent Foundation is a strategic talent enablement firm led by Adam Kovacs, formerly of Amazon and AWS talent programs. It offers talent intelligence, recruiting operations design, recruiter capability training, and senior recruiting execution for growing and VC- and PE-backed scale-ups.
Timbi is a boutique talent partner focused on building tech teams across Latin America. It offers strategic headhunting for senior engineers and product leaders, embedded recruiting teams for fast-scaling companies, executive search for Latin America go-to-market and risk leaders, and fractional CTO and project-based expert matching.
Tribe places embedded recruiters and sourcers who work inside a client's ATS and hiring rituals, plus embedded sourcing and executive search. It serves European tech companies hiring across engineering, product, data, design, sales, customer success, and operations roles.
Triton Talent Solutions is a Boston-based talent acquisition consultancy for small and midsize companies. It offers fractional talent acquisition leadership, hiring process assessments (workflow, ATS optimization, hiring-manager training) and project-based recruiting support.
Solo strategic recruiting partner for seed-to-Series B B2B SaaS startups, building GTM and Product hiring systems and running embedded/fractional talent-leader engagements alongside retained executive search for CRO/VP-level roles.
True Search is a New York-headquartered global retained executive search firm with offices across six continents, recruiting C-suite and board talent for venture capital- and private equity-backed companies as well as mid-to-large-cap organizations.
Turmero Talent is a contingency recruiting firm focused only on technical roles, placing backend, platform, infrastructure, DevOps/SRE engineers and engineering managers at seed to Series A startups of roughly 11-50 employees.
Boutique retained executive search firm focused exclusively on Go-To-Market leadership hires (CRO, CCO, VP Sales, Head of GTM) for founder-led, PE-backed, and venture-funded companies primarily in the US and Canada, with cross-border reach into Latin America.
Nearshore executive search for funded US startups, recruiting senior engineering, product and go-to-market leaders across Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Works through three verticals (Venture Engineering, Product, GTM) using its own 10-criteria assessment framework.
ViTalented is a France-based IT recruitment firm hiring across Europe for startups, scale-ups and SMEs, with a core specialty in tech and product. It offers a success-only search model or a dedicated talent partner embedded in the client's team.
We Are Scout deploys embedded Talent Partners into startups and scaleups, backed by an account director, reporting, and AI-assisted sourcing tools, across tech and GTM roles. Client examples on its site include Payhawk, Multiverse, Dext, and Moneybox.
Serbian recruitment and HR-services agency offering an RPO model with dedicated on-site or off-site recruiters, plus mass-recruitment and start-up project hiring, staff leasing, EOR and payroll. States ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification and that it is part of the Heads Adriatic Group; serves operational, technical, administrative and professional profiles across industries.
XTLNT is a Miami-headquartered executive search boutique serving companies across the US and Latin America, including those expanding into new markets. Services include executive search, board recruitment, assessment, leadership onboarding, market mapping and interim management, with a technology and media industry practice and a head of AI and digital transformation.
Your Remote Tech Recruiter Ltd. is a one-recruiter practice offering fractional, embedded tech recruitment to startups, including post-fundraise teams. Its engagements follow a Review, Embed, Deliver model, and its site features testimonials from Develop Health, Juro, Booksy, and Scott Logic.
London recruitment firm offering on-demand fractional/embedded recruiters and executive search for startups, scaleups, SMEs and professional-services firms. Sector focus is pensions, wealth management/financial services and legal, so it is not startup-only. Source: zatori-consulting.co.uk/fractional-recruiter.
Zytheq is a San Francisco Bay Area recruiting firm running engineering, data/AI, product, go-to-market, and executive searches for Series A-D startups and larger tech companies, offering contingency search, retained executive search, and embedded/RPO recruiting out of its San Francisco office.
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