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.
Company size
Mid-size Startup Recruiting Firms
14 of the 95 recruiting firms for startups we track are mid-size firms. Featured partner first, then alphabetical.
14 of the 95 recruiting firms for startups tracked on Startup Recruiting Firms are mid-size firms, 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.
Size ranges from boutique shops of a handful of recruiters to large, multi-office search firms. Boutique firms tend to give founders more direct access to the person actually sourcing candidates; larger firms bring more bench depth and simultaneous search capacity.
Which recruiting firms for startups are mid-size firms?
Advertiser disclosureFeatured partner pinned first and labelled; every other company is listed alphabetically. No paid placement.
| Company | Headquarters | Specialties | Size | Best for | Website |
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80Twenty
North America
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AC Lion
North America
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New York, USA | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Bespoke Partners
North America
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Austin, USA | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Betts Recruiting
North America
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San Francisco, USA | Mid-size | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Bolster
North America
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New York, USA | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Daversa Partners
North America
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New York, USA | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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EC1 Partners
Europe, North America
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London, UK | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Herd Freed Hartz
North America
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Seattle, USA | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Hire With Near
North America, Latin America
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Austin, USA | Mid-size | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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Rocket
North America, Remote/Global
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San Francisco, USA | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Storm2
North America
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— | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Storm3
Europe, North America
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London, UK | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Talentful
Europe, North America
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London, UK | Mid-size | Embedded Recruiting | Visit | |
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Terminal
North America, Latin America
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San Francisco, USA | Mid-size | Embedded Recruiting | Visit |
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14 shownAC 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Questions buyers ask
How many recruiting firms for startups are mid-size?
14 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.