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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. Refery
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 Refery are both listed among Startup Recruiting Firms as of October 4, 2026. Recruitmint is a boutique firm in Orange County, CA · Prishtina, Kosovo; Refery is a firm in an undisclosed location. 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 | Refery |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Orange County, CA · Prishtina, Kosovo | — |
| Company size | Boutique | — |
| Regions | North America Europe Balkans Remote/Global | North America |
| Specialties | Tech Recruiters Embedded Recruiting Early-Stage Startups Fractional Recruiting | Engineering Recruiting Sales Recruiting Early-Stage Startups Series A-C |
| 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 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. Refery is a n/a firm based in an undisclosed location.
Coverage overlaps on North America. Recruitmint additionally lists Europe, Balkans, and Remote/Global; Refery additionally lists no other region.
The practical split is size: a boutique firm gives you a small senior team, a firm gives you a . Ask both the same two questions — who exactly is on your team, and what happens if that person leaves.
Read the full profiles
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.