Startups
Founding engineers and early leadership for companies where every hire moves the needle.
Hiring in Startups
At seed and Series A, a bad hire is not a line-item — it is a quarter of runway. Candidates need to be excellent, comfortable with ambiguity and genuinely bought into the mission.
We work with founders and their investors on the hires that matter most: the first engineers, the first commercial leader and the people who set the standard for everyone hired afterwards.
What makes it hard
- Equity-heavy packages need candidates who can weigh upside against a lower base salary.
- Small teams cannot absorb a mis-hire — cultural fit carries real commercial weight.
- Founders are hiring while also building, so the process has to run with minimal input from them.
- Funding rounds compress hiring into short, urgent windows.
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Engineers, architects and platform specialists for teams that ship software rather than talk about it.
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Design, project and chartered engineers across mechanical, electrical and civil disciplines.
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