Looking for a recruiter in your own time zone? Compare US and Canada recruiting firms for startups, from large executive search practices to boutique tech and sales recruiters, filterable by specialty and size.
80 of the 95 recruiting firms for startups tracked on Startup Recruiting Firms cover North America, as of October 14, 2026. The featured partner, Recruitmint, is pinned first when it qualifies; every other row is alphabetical, unpaid, and drawn from public information.
Region shows where a firm's recruiters and candidate networks are concentrated — North America, Europe, the Balkans, Latin America, or remote/global. It matters most when you're hiring outside your own time zone or building a distributed team, since local network depth is hard to fake.
Which recruiting firms for startups serve North America?
Featured partner pinned first and labelled; every other company is listed alphabetically. No paid placement.
Which recruiting firms for startups serve North America?. Featured partner pinned first and labelled; every other company is listed alphabetically. No paid placement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bespoke Partners is an Austin executive search and sales recruiting firm, founded in 2011. It places C-suite and VP-level revenue and marketing leaders, including CRO and CMO roles, at PE- and venture-backed software and SaaS companies.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Coastal Recruiting is a boutique Los Angeles tech recruiting firm for early-stage, VC-backed startups. It hires engineering and product talent, specializing in the first wave of technical hires at a company.
Seattle-based fractional and embedded recruiting agency for pre-seed to Series A startups. A dedicated recruiter joins your team to run sourcing and hiring, scaled up or down with hiring volume.
Daversa Partners is an executive search firm that runs leadership searches for high-growth, venture-backed technology companies, with case studies covering companies such as OpenAI, Brex, and Cursor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Hunt Club is a Chicago executive search and talent advisory firm, founded in 2014. It finds leaders for high-growth VC- and PE-backed companies (Series A-C included) through expert referrals and AI-assisted relationship mapping.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plenty Search is a boutique New York executive search firm built by former startup operators. It runs leadership searches for Series A-C and early-stage startups, with a smaller caseload per recruiter than traditional retained firms.
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.
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.
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.
Riviera Partners is a technology-focused executive search and talent advisory firm placing leadership in product management, software engineering, AI/ML/data, security, and design, working with venture-backed companies from seed stage through 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
SPMB is an executive search firm that recruits C-level executives and board members for technology, consumer, and health companies, ranging from early-stage startups to established 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.
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.
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.
Talentful is a London-based, mid-size embedded recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firm, founded in 2015. It places specialist recruiters inside client companies and pairs them with AI-driven sourcing tools, working across startups, scale-ups, and larger enterprises in Europe and North America.
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.
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.
Terminal is a San Francisco engineering hiring platform for growth-stage technology companies. It places full-time, contract, and contract-to-hire software engineers, AI/ML developers, dedicated teams, and engineering managers in nearshore and offshore markets across Canada, Latin America, and Europe, and also offers employer-of-record services.
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.
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.
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.
How many recruiting firms for startups cover North America?
80 of the 95 companies in this directory. The list is compiled from public information and refreshed as companies change.
How is this list ordered?
The featured partner, Recruitmint, which publishes this directory, is pinned first and labelled. Everyone else is alphabetical. Position is not for sale.
Do companies pay to appear on this page?
No. Inclusion is free and unpaid. Recruitmint is the only company with a commercial relationship to this site, and it is disclosed on every page.
