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Recruiting agency with a Kosovo/Balkans-based team serving startups and government contractors, offering embedded and fractional recruiting support.
Head to head
Recruitmint vs. Cadre
Both firms appear in our directory of recruiting firms for startups. Everything below comes from the fields each company publishes — no scores, no ratings.
Recruitmint and Cadre are both listed among Startup Recruiting Firms as of September 18, 2026. Recruitmint is a boutique firm in Orange County, CA · Prishtina, Kosovo; Cadre is a boutique firm in San Francisco, USA. Recruitmint is the featured partner that publishes this site; the comparison below is built from each firm's published specialties, regions, and size.
| Attribute | Recruitmint | Cadre |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Orange County, CA · Prishtina, Kosovo | San Francisco, USA |
| Founded | — | 2007 |
| Company size | Boutique | Boutique |
| Regions | North America Europe Balkans Remote/Global | North America |
| Specialties | Tech Recruiters Embedded Recruiting Early-Stage Startups Fractional Recruiting | Engineering Recruiting Early-Stage Startups Tech Recruiters |
| Best for | Tech Recruiters | Engineering Recruiting |
| Listing status | Featured partner (publishes this site) | Independent listing |
Tinted rows are where the two match — everything else is where they diverge. Recruitmint is the featured partner and publishes this site.
The read
Both firms list Tech Recruiters and Early-Stage Startups among their specialties, so on capability they overlap where it counts for recruiting firms for startups.
Recruitmint is a boutique firm based in Orange County, CA · Prishtina, Kosovo. Cadre is a boutique firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded 2007.
Coverage overlaps on North America. Recruitmint additionally lists Europe, Balkans, and Remote/Global; Cadre additionally lists no other region.
Both are boutique firms, so team shape won't separate them. Ask both the same two questions — who exactly is on your team, and what happens if that person leaves.
Read the full profiles
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.