Compare tech recruiters for startups across engineering, product and data hiring, including Riviera Partners, Talentful, Terminal and Recruiting from Scratch.
76 of the 210 recruiting firms for startups tracked on Startup Recruiting Firms publish Tech Recruiters 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.
Tech Recruiters is the broadest technical tag on this site — it covers firms that source across engineering, product, data, and technical leadership roles, rather than a single narrow function. Riviera Partners and Recruiting from Scratch pair technical screening with recruiters who have engineering backgrounds; Talentful and Terminal build out embedded and distributed technical teams for growth-stage companies; Techy Recruiter works across funded startups in Europe and the Gulf. Recruitmint, this site's publisher, also sources technical roles as part of its embedded and fractional work for startups. What matters most under this tag is who actually vets a candidate's technical ability before you see the resume — a recruiter with a computer-science or engineering background will catch a mismatch that a keyword-matching generalist won't. Ask a firm how technical screening works in practice: does an engineer sit in on early calls, or does everything route through one non-technical sourcer? Then check the Engineering Recruiting and Executive Search tags for firms that narrow further into a single seniority band or function.
Which recruiting firms for startups do tech recruiters?
Featured partner pinned first and labelled; every other company is listed alphabetically. No paid placement.
Which recruiting firms for startups do tech recruiters?. 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.
Ambacia is a Zagreb-based IT recruitment agency that recruits across Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia for startups building first engineering teams, corporations, and international companies opening Croatian offices. It also offers technical and psychological assessments and employer-of-record services.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Buenos Aires-based firm that finds tech leaders for LatAm digital companies and startups, from strategic middle management to C-suite, using a four-pillar evaluation of people leadership, technical management, project execution and product development. Site also lists hiring and fractional HR offerings.
Bucharest-based technology recruitment firm, founded in 2001 as Romania's first specialised tech recruiter. Offers executive search, per-role search, time-boxed recruitment sprints, Recruitment as a Service (embedded recruiters, also known as RPO), contracting, Employer of Record and build-operate-transfer programs, plus annual talent-intelligence reports. Delivers across Europe and Africa; client work skews to tech and business-services centers.
bubb is a recruitment company with offices in London, San Francisco, and Krakow offering embedded recruitment, onsite and global RPO, direct-hire staffing, executive search, and employer branding for startups, scale-ups, and enterprises across sales, technology, and engineering roles.
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.
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.
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.
Making your first technical hires with no recruiter on staff? Coastal Recruiting is a boutique Los Angeles engineering and product recruiter for early-stage, VC-backed startups at exactly that point.
Combine places vetted tech, product and go-to-market talent from Latin America with US and European teams, with direct hire, outsourcing and confidential executive search for VP and C-level engineering, product and GTM roles across LATAM. Serves companies from early stage through enterprise.
Dover is a hiring platform for startups that combines a marketplace of independent fractional recruiters with a free applicant tracking system and sourcing tools. Startups can engage recruiters for sourcing, screening, scheduling or full-cycle recruiting across engineering, sales, design and other roles.
eCRM Euro is a specialist European talent acquisition firm with offices in London, Amsterdam and Berlin. It offers fractional TA leadership (a director-level leader embedded part-time, typically 2-4 days a week), embedded recruiters, EOR/PEO advisory and talent market intelligence, with sector focus on fintech, SaaS, AI/ML, cybersecurity and healthtech.
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.
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.
FindIT Recruitment is a Belgrade-based agency that combines HR expertise with IT knowledge to recruit developers and other tech professionals for companies hiring in Serbia, with a process built around a tech-background brief, culture brief and job description before candidate selection.
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.
HC Solutions is an IT recruitment and HR outsourcing company based in Serbia, placing developers, DevOps, QA and IT project managers for international clients, and also offering outsourced recruitment and HR operations, relocation support, and help setting up development hubs in Serbia.
HCR Digital is a fractional recruiter and embedded talent partner for VC-backed startups, led by Leo Tognetti, hiring product, engineering, and design talent across Europe, the US, and Latin America.
Sofia-based recruitment and HR consulting firm operating since 2003. Services include full-cycle recruitment, executive search, headhunting, IT recruitment (software, data, AI, infrastructure), Recruitment as a Service (outsourced sourcing, screening and hiring coordination) and Employer of Record in Bulgaria.
IA TechForce Talent is a founder-led nearshore IT recruitment firm based in Costa Rica that helps U.S. startups and growing companies hire engineers and cybersecurity professionals across Latin America. Services include full-cycle recruitment, an embedded recruiter model, HR services and hiring strategy advisory, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Licensed Sofia recruitment agency operating since 2009, with an RPO service in which a dedicated specialist sources, screens and shortlists while the client interviews and hires directly. Focus areas are IT, finance and accounting, BPO, marketing and executive roles; supports English, Bulgarian and German. Also offers executive search, staff leasing and Employer of Record in Bulgaria.
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.
Kandreys Group is a boutique retained search firm that takes on a limited number of searches at a time, helping founders build founding and leadership teams, with focus areas in AI and vertical AI software, defense and deep tech, healthcare technology and cybersecurity.
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.
Latam Staffers helps U.S.-based startups hire tech talent from Latin America, offering recruiting, staff augmentation, and dedicated LATAM-based development teams with engineer-led vetting.
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.
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.
LuRecruiter is a solo-led IT headhunting practice in Lima, Peru, run by recruiter Lucero Lamas, placing engineers, data/AI specialists, product managers and technical leaders from across 14 Latin American countries at US and LATAM startups, from pre-seed to Series B.
Magenta is a remote staffing and recruiting agency that helps founders and high-growth startups hire full-time and virtual-assistant talent from Latin America, with full-cycle candidate management and a proprietary LATAM candidate database.
Recruiting firm focused on Brazil, run by founder Mariana Mavila (former VP of Talent Marketplace at Andela). Offers three tracks: tech roles, business roles, and executive search for directors, VPs and C-level, which Mariana runs personally. Serves Brazilian and US companies and founders hiring in Brazil.
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.
Motive is a boutique retained executive search firm placing C- and VP-level technology, product, data, marketing and finance leaders for venture-backed and technology clients in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and APAC.
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.
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.
Founder-led technology talent advisory boutique in Italy working with startups and scale-ups across Europe. Engagements are structured mandates (contingency or exclusive) built around mandate definition, market mapping, shortlist control and execution oversight.
Omnes Group is an IT-focused recruitment firm sourcing developers in Serbia, offering pay-per-hire, pay-per-stay and recruiter-as-a-service models with focus areas in AI, Web3, SaaS, GTM and Fintech.
PeopleFirst Talent Partners (formerly PeopleFirst Agency) is a founder-led tech recruiting boutique in Buenos Aires, founded by Carla Costantini. It recruits senior engineering, data, AI and AdTech talent for startups and scale-ups across Latin America, the US and Europe.
Sarajevo-based recruitment agency focused on IT and BPO hiring across the Western Balkans. Offers retained and contingency search, embedded RPO, and recruiter-on-demand. Operates Talentor Western Balkans, an executive search division of the Talentor network.
Recruit Adria (RecruitAdria LTD) is a founder-led recruitment agency that sources, screens, and shortlists remote professionals from Southeast Europe (including Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia) for remote-first and growing companies, including tech and crypto startups. Roles span IT, sales and marketing, customer support, and finance and operations.
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.
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.
UK recruiter working with early-stage technology startups since 1987, placing founding engineers, AI engineers, senior developers and CTOs in London, Oxford, Birmingham and the M3/M4 corridor, plus remote roles. Also covers scaleup and SME recruitment.
Hiring a VP Engineering, head of product or security lead? Riviera Partners is a San Francisco executive search firm, founded in 2001, for tech leadership at venture-backed companies from seed to scale.
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.
Berlin-based recruiting firm offering embedded talent partners who hire exclusively for a client's team, plus a dedicated search service for niche or senior roles. Case studies cover early-stage engineering hiring and data and go-to-market hiring sprints for European companies.
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.
Search Talent Pros is a Latin American talent firm, part of Grupo SEARCHiN, offering executive search, talent mapping, assessments, outplacement and tech talent, with local teams in 8 countries across the region.
SecureVision provides recruitment process outsourcing delivered as embedded recruiting for high-growth, venture-backed tech and SaaS companies from seed stage through IPO. It runs GTM, technical, and G&A hiring, with core business in North America and global coverage across Latin America, EMEA, and APAC.
Zagreb-based HR firm offering Smart RPO, Smart Executive Search, Smart Professional Search and Smart IT recruitment, plus payroll and Employer of Record services in Croatia. Its site says it has offered recruitment solutions for more than 15 years, aimed at medium-sized and large organisations; RPO capacity is described as scalable up or down with hiring volume.
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.
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.
Retained executive search boutique focused exclusively on technology and digital leadership roles across Latin America, with partner-led searches from its São Paulo office.
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.
Want specialist recruiters inside your team? Talentful is a London-based embedded recruiting and RPO firm, founded in 2015. It adds AI-driven sourcing and works across Europe and North America.
TalentMinted is a boutique IT recruitment partner for startups and growing tech teams hiring software engineers, AI specialists and technical leaders across EU countries, wider Europe, Ukraine, Canada and selected US searches, including embedded and defense-tech roles.
Sarajevo-based IT and BPO recruitment agency and Talentor International partner offering retained and contingency search, embedded RPO, recruiter-on-demand, and a Western Balkans executive search division.
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.
Teamcubate (Teamcubate ApS) describes itself as a team incubator that hires tech talent for global startups and growth companies, mainly in IT, marketing and finance. It has a Belgrade, Serbia hub and recruits remote developers for long-term projects with North European growth companies, with offices also listed in Aarhus, Amsterdam and Copenhagen.
Techy Recruiter is a boutique tech recruitment consultancy based in Cairo, Egypt, serving funded startups and scale-ups across Europe and the Gulf region. It offers embedded recruitment, sourcing-as-a-service, and hiring-process design.
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.
Tenzor AI Talent is a Raleigh, NC firm placing AI, ML and data science talent. For founders and VC portfolios it offers talent advisory covering role architecture, compensation benchmarking, employer brand and a phased hiring roadmap for first technical hires, plus contract staffing.
Building a distributed engineering team? Terminal is a San Francisco engineering recruiting platform for growth-stage companies. It places engineers, AI/ML developers and engineering managers in Canada, Latin America and Europe, and offers employer-of-record services.
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 Paper Kite Company is a talent advisory and executive search firm, founded in 2012, working with tech-driven startups and high-growth companies. It runs searches for CTO, product, engineering, growth and operations leadership, and also handles compensation and equity calibration and offer-stage management.
The Right Hire Latam is a boutique staffing and recruitment firm for tech and SaaS roles, with offices in San José (Costa Rica), Panama City and Mexico City. Services include executive staffing, rapid team staffing and strategic talent advisory on critical roles and organizational structure.
Timbi is a boutique talent partner focused on building tech teams across Latin America. It offers strategic headhunting for senior engineers and product leaders, embedded recruiting teams for fast-scaling companies, executive search for Latin America go-to-market and risk leaders, and fractional CTO and project-based expert matching.
Tribe places embedded recruiters and sourcers who work inside a client's ATS and hiring rituals, plus embedded sourcing and executive search. It serves European tech companies hiring across engineering, product, data, design, sales, customer success, and operations roles.
ViTalented is a France-based IT recruitment firm hiring across Europe for startups, scale-ups and SMEs, with a core specialty in tech and product. It offers a success-only search model or a dedicated talent partner embedded in the client's team.
Your Remote Tech Recruiter Ltd. is a one-recruiter practice offering fractional, embedded tech recruitment to startups, including post-fundraise teams. Its engagements follow a Review, Embed, Deliver model, and its site features testimonials from Develop Health, Juro, Booksy, and Scott Logic.
How many recruiting firms for startups do Tech Recruiters?
76 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.
