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Venture Capital
Executive Search.

Investors and platform leaders across seed-stage through late-stage venture, with sector depth in enterprise software, fintech, healthcare, climate and frontier technology.

Seed & Pre-SeedSeries A–CLate-StageMulti-Stage PlatformsCorporate Venture

What We Cover

A market where judgment matters more than process.

Venture is a relationships market. The senior hires that matter — Partner, Principal, Head of Platform — are usually closed in private long before a public search begins. Our role is to be the firm that already knows the right person, has had ongoing conversations with them, and can introduce them at the right moment.

We work with single-stage and multi-stage funds. We work with emerging managers building their second or third partner. And we work with established platforms recruiting Heads of Platform, Talent and Marketing — the operational spine that defines how a fund actually serves portfolio founders.

Roles Placed

Investment and platform.

Investment Team

  • General Partner
  • Partner
  • Principal
  • Senior Associate · Associate
  • Investor in Residence

Platform & Portfolio

  • Head of Platform
  • Head of Talent
  • Head of Marketing
  • Founder Operations Lead
  • Community & Network Director

Sector Specialists

  • Enterprise SaaS Investor
  • Healthcare / Bio Investor
  • FinTech Investor
  • Climate & Energy Transition Investor
  • AI & Frontier Tech Investor

Capital Formation

  • Head of LP Relations
  • Family Office Lead
  • Co-Investment Lead

Portfolio Leadership

  • Founding CEO & Co-Founder Search
  • VP Engineering · VP Product
  • Head of Sales · Head of Marketing
  • CFO / Finance Lead

Operations

  • COO of Fund
  • General Counsel
  • Head of Finance / Controller
  • Head of Data & Research

Recent Mandate Types

Representative engagements.

All references anonymized to protect client and candidate confidentiality.

Mandate A

Partner — Enterprise Software

Multi-stage fund recruiting its third investing partner with a B2B SaaS focus.

Mandate B

Head of Platform

$1.5B platform building out portfolio services for ~80 active companies.

Mandate C

Founding GP Build-Out

New manager closing fund I — two senior GP hires plus first associate.

Mandate D

Healthcare Investing Lead

Senior life sciences investor for an established multi-strategy firm.

Mandate E

Climate Partner

First climate-dedicated partner at a generalist Series A fund.

Mandate F

Head of LP Relations

Senior IR for a fund opening institutional channels for the first time.

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