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
Talent Advisory: Startup Recruiting Firms
Before you open a search, get the hiring plan right. Compare talent advisory firms that help founders with org design, comp benchmarks and hiring strategy, including Hunt Club and Bolster.
30 of the 95 recruiting firms for startups tracked on Startup Recruiting Firms publish Talent Advisory as a specialty, 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.
Talent Advisory groups firms that do more than fill a single role — they advise founders and executives on org design, comp benchmarking, and hiring strategy, sometimes alongside search. On this list, Hunt Club pairs AI-assisted candidate mapping with a broader team-building practice for VC- and PE-backed companies. Bolster, founded by the former Return Path leadership team, runs a marketplace that matches CEOs with full-time, fractional, interim, and board executives, blending recruiter judgment with a sourcing platform. Scion Staffing and True Search both fold talent-advisory work into broader staffing and search practices that span technology, finance, and healthcare clients well beyond startups. AC Lion adds it to a GTM-focused executive search practice, and Athyna and Hire With Near frame their remote-hiring advisory work specifically around Latin American talent pools. What separates a genuine advisory engagement from a search firm with an extra line on its homepage is whether the firm will sit down and help build a hiring plan or comp band before a search starts — not just after you've already decided who to hire. Ask a prospective advisory partner for an example of a hiring plan or org chart they built with a client, not just a placed candidate, and whether that advice is billed separately from search work.
Which recruiting firms for startups do talent advisory?
Advertiser disclosureFeatured partner pinned first and labelled; every other company is listed alphabetically. No paid placement.
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80Twenty
North America
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[object Object] | 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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Athyna
Latin America, Remote/Global
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San Diego, USA | Boutique | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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Authentech Talent
North America
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Toronto, Canada | Boutique | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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Balkan Hire
Balkans, Remote/Global
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Sheridan, Wyoming, USA | Boutique | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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Beacon Talent
North America
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[object Object] | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | 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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Bloom Talent
North America
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San Francisco, USA | Boutique | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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Bolster
North America
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New York, USA | Mid-size | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Bonell Ryan
North America
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New York, USA | Boutique | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Boundly
Europe
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United Kingdom | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | Visit | |
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Carex Consulting Group
North America
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— | Boutique | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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ClosedWon Talent
North America
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Waverley, MA, USA | Boutique | Sales Recruiting | 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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Excelsior Search
Europe, North America
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London, UK | — | 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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HireKosovo
Balkans, Remote/Global
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Kosovo | Boutique | Talent Advisory | Visit | |
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Hunt Club
North America
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Chicago, USA | Large | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Littlemore Recruiting
North America
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San Francisco, USA | Boutique | Fractional Recruiting | Visit | |
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Masarna
North America
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— | Boutique | Embedded Recruiting | Visit | |
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Opal Search Partners
North America
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New York, USA | Boutique | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Scion Staffing
North America
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San Francisco, USA | Large | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Skinner & Associates
North America
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Oldsmar, Florida, USA | Boutique | Executive Search | Visit | |
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Start Up Talent
North America
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USA | Boutique | Embedded Recruiting | 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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Teilur Talent
Latin America
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Claymont, Delaware, USA | Boutique | Talent Advisory | 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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True Search
North America, Europe
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New York, USA | Large | Executive Search | Visit |
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30 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.
Athyna is a San Diego talent-matching platform, founded in 2019, for startups and scaling companies hiring remote professionals. It uses AI to connect them with vetted candidates, with a particular focus on talent from Latin America.
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.
Balkan Hire is a boutique recruiting agency (Efficient Hire LLC) that sources and vets remote candidates from Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Albania, and North Macedonia for growing startups and SMEs, covering marketing, finance, operations, and general business roles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HireKosovo is a structured international hiring firm sourcing AI-fluent, tech, and creative talent from Kosovo and the Balkans for venture-backed startups and scaling companies, offering both self-directed platform access and full-service role architecture, sourcing, and vetting engagements.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Teilur Talent is a nearshore staffing agency connecting US and Canadian companies with pre-vetted tech professionals across Latin America, covering software engineering, design, and other technical roles through an in-house vetting and matching process.
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.
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Questions buyers ask
How many recruiting firms for startups do Talent Advisory?
30 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.