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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. Tangerine Search
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 Tangerine Search are both listed among Startup Recruiting Firms as of September 2, 2026. Recruitmint is a boutique firm in Orange County, CA · Prishtina, Kosovo; Tangerine Search 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 | Tangerine Search |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Orange County, CA · Prishtina, Kosovo | San Francisco, USA |
| Company size | Boutique | Boutique |
| Regions | North America Europe Balkans Remote/Global | North America Remote/Global |
| Specialties | Tech Recruiters Embedded Recruiting Early-Stage Startups Fractional Recruiting | Executive Search Tech Recruiters Embedded Recruiting Early-Stage Startups |
| Best for | Tech Recruiters | Executive Search |
| 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, Embedded Recruiting, 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. Tangerine Search is a boutique firm based in San Francisco, USA.
Coverage overlaps on North America and Remote/Global. Recruitmint additionally lists Europe and Balkans; Tangerine Search 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
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.