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.
Specialty
Sales Recruiting: Startup Recruiting Firms
Choose a firm that recruits only revenue roles; they keep warm networks of reps and managers. GTM Hunters, ClosedWon Talent and Captivate Talent focus on startup sales hiring, and Bespoke Partners covers CRO and VP-level searches for SaaS. Ask which segment recent placements sold into. See the [startup recruiting FAQ](/guides/startup-recruiting-faq-hiring-partners/).
47 of the 210 recruiting firms for startups tracked on Startup Recruiting Firms publish Sales Recruiting as a specialty, as of October 29, 2026. The featured partner, Recruitmint, is pinned first when it qualifies; every other row is alphabetical, unpaid, and drawn from public information.
Sales Recruiting covers firms built specifically around revenue roles — AEs, SDRs, sales engineers, and the VP Sales or CRO who manages them — rather than general executive or technical search. GTM Hunters and GTM Talent both work exclusively in this lane, placing revenue talent for VC-backed SaaS and AI companies across Series A-D. Captivate Talent and ClosedWon Talent focus on seed-and-Series-A go-to-market hires, including founding AEs and BDRs. LaunchWorks and Ventes Search run retained GTM search across the US and EMEA, often for DevTools, cybersecurity, and AI companies specifically. Bespoke Partners and Hired By Startups both place revenue leadership but sit inside broader executive-search or generalist practices rather than working revenue roles exclusively. A sales recruiter's real edge is usually quota and ramp data: can they tell you what a realistic ramp-to-quota timeline looks like for your ICP and deal size, based on searches they've actually run, or are they reciting generic SaaS sales benchmarks? Ask a firm here how many sales searches they've closed at your specific deal size and sales motion (PLG, enterprise, channel) in the last year, and whether they track candidate performance after placement.
Which recruiting firms for startups do sales recruiting?
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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San Francisco, USA | Mid-size | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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AC Lion
North America
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New York, USA | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Accelerate HC
North America
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Oak Park, California, USA | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Activated Scale
North America
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— | — | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Avomind
Europe, North America
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Berlin, Germany | — | Embedded Recruiting | Visit | |
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Axe Recruiting
North America, Europe
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— | — | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Beacon Talent
North America
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San Francisco, USA | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Berg Search
Europe
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— | Boutique | Tech Recruiters | 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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Boundly
Europe
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United Kingdom | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Captivate Talent
North America
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— | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Chasen Talent
North America
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— | Boutique | Early-Stage Startups | Visit | |
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ClosedWon Talent
North America
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Waverley, MA, USA | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Cloudcat Recruitment
North America, Europe
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— | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Edison & Black
North America
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New York, USA | Boutique | Tech Recruiters | Visit | |
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EqualAccess
North America
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New York, USA | Boutique | Early-Stage Startups | Visit | |
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Founders Connect
North America
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— | — | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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GENTY recruitment
Latin America
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Buenos Aires, Argentina | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Golden Gate Recruiting
North America
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San Francisco, USA | Boutique | Early-Stage Startups | Visit | |
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Gratus Group
North America
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Denver, USA | — | Fractional Recruiting | Visit | |
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GTM Hunters
Remote/Global
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— | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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GTM Talent
North America, Europe
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— | Boutique | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Hired By Startups
Europe
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London, UK | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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HireDNA
North America
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— | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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LatamCent
Latin America, North America
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— | — | Tech Recruiters | Visit | |
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LaunchWorks
Europe, North America
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London, UK | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Merot
Balkans
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Skopje, North Macedonia | Boutique | Tech Recruiters | Visit | |
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Nearshore Business Solutions
Latin America, North America
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— | — | RPO | Visit | |
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NOSSA
North America, Remote/Global
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New York, USA | — | RPO | Visit | |
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On The Hook Recruiting
North America
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— | Boutique | Fractional Recruiting | Visit | |
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Paul Wilkin
Europe, North America
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— | Boutique | Fractional Recruiting | Visit | |
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Pipeline Recruiters
North America
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— | — | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Refery
North America
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— | — | Engineering Recruiting | Visit | |
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s1
North America
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— | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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SaaS Talent
North America, Latin America
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— | Mid-size | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Sales Talent Inc.
North America
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— | — | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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StartupX
North America
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Toronto, Canada | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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SwingSearch
North America
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— | — | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Talento Consulting AI
North America, Europe
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Los Angeles, USA | Boutique | RPO | Visit | |
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That Recruitment Company
Europe
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Amsterdam, Netherlands | Boutique | Tech Recruiters | Visit | |
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The Kas Group
North America
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— | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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The Search Experience (TSE)
North America, Remote/Global
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San Francisco, USA | Boutique | Early-Stage Startups | Visit | |
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The Startup Talent Agency
North America
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— | — | Engineering Recruiting | Visit | |
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True Calling Talent
North America
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Mason, MI, USA | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Ventes Search
North America, Latin America
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Austin, TX, USA | Boutique | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Venture People
Latin America, North America
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— | — | Executive Search | Visit |
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47 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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Questions buyers ask
How many recruiting firms for startups do Sales Recruiting?
47 of the 210 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.