# Startup Recruiting Firms > Recruiters who actually understand equity, runway, and hiring your first ten engineers. Startup Recruiting Firms is an independent directory of recruiting firms for startups, published at https://startuprecruitingfirms.com. It is published by Recruitmint (https://recruitmint.io), which is disclosed as the featured partner. Companies are ordered with the featured partner first and everyone else alphabetically; no listing position is for sale. ## Pages - [Home](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/): full directory with a comparison table, filters and methodology - [Guides](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/guides/): buyer's guides - [Compare](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/compare/): side-by-side comparisons - [About](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/about/): who publishes this site - [Methodology](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/methodology/): how listings are ranked, verified, and how the site makes money - [Full directory dataset](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/llms-full.txt): every company and guide, in full, as plain text — for citation ## Companies - [Recruitmint](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/recruitmint/) (featured partner): Recruiting agency with a Kosovo/Balkans-based team serving startups and government contractors, offering embedded and fractional recruiting support. - [Athyna](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/athyna/): Athyna is a talent-matching platform that uses AI to connect startups and scaling companies with vetted remote professionals, with a particular focus on hiring talent from Latin America. - [Bespoke Partners](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/bespoke-partners/): Bespoke Partners is an executive search firm specializing in C-suite and VP-level placements, including CRO and CMO roles, for private equity- and venture-backed software and SaaS companies. - [Coastal Recruiting](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/coastal-recruiting/): Coastal Recruiting is a boutique recruiting firm focused on engineering and product hires at early-stage, VC-backed startups, specializing in the first wave of technical hires at a company. - [Crucial Recruiting](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/crucial-recruiting/): Crucial Recruiting is a fractional and embedded recruiting agency for pre-seed to Series A startups, placing a dedicated recruiter inside a client's team to run sourcing and hiring on an ongoing basis. - [Daversa Partners](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/daversa-partners/): Daversa Partners is an executive search firm that runs leadership searches for high-growth, venture-backed technology companies, with case studies covering companies such as OpenAI, Brex, and Cursor. - [Herd Freed Hartz](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/herd-freed-hartz/): Herd Freed Hartz is a retained executive search firm that helps venture-backed startups scale by placing senior leadership talent, with a portfolio that has included companies such as Auth0 and Porch. - [Hire With Near](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/hire-with-near/): Hire With Near is a staffing and recruiting agency that connects U.S. startups with remote professionals in Latin America, handling sourcing, vetting, and compliance support. - [Hired By Startups](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/hired-by-startups/): Hired By Startups is a recruitment agency that helps early-stage and high-growth startups hire for go-to-market roles across sales, marketing, and customer success. - [Hunt Club](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/hunt-club/): Hunt Club is an executive search and team-building firm that sources leadership candidates through a network of expert referrals and AI-assisted relationship mapping, working with high-growth VC- and PE-backed companies. - [Nederlia](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/nederlia/): Nederlia is a venture capital-focused executive search firm specializing in early-stage startups, from seed to Series B, placing C-suite and VP-level leaders across tech hubs in Europe and the UK. - [Plenty Search](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/plenty-search/): Plenty Search is an executive recruiting firm built by former startup operators that focuses on Series A-C startups, running a smaller caseload per recruiter than traditional retained search firms. - [Recruiting from Scratch](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/recruiting-from-scratch/): 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. - [Riviera Partners](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/riviera-partners/): Riviera Partners is a technology-focused executive search and talent advisory firm placing leadership in product management, software engineering, AI/ML/data, security, and design, working with venture-backed companies from seed stage through scale. - [SPMB](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/spmb/): SPMB is an executive search firm that recruits C-level executives and board members for technology, consumer, and health companies, ranging from early-stage startups to established public companies. - [Stanton Chase](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/stanton-chase/): Stanton Chase is a global executive search and leadership consulting firm with a dedicated startups-and-scale-ups practice that recruits C-level and board talent for Series A-D venture-backed and private equity-owned companies. - [Talentful](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/talentful/): Talentful is an embedded recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) firm that places specialist recruiters inside client companies and pairs them with AI-driven sourcing tools, working across startups, scale-ups, and larger enterprises. - [Techy Recruiter](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/techy-recruiter/): Techy Recruiter is a tech recruitment consultancy offering embedded recruitment, sourcing-as-a-service, and hiring-process design for funded startups and scale-ups across Europe and the Gulf region. - [Terminal](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/companies/terminal/): Terminal is a hiring platform that helps growth-stage technology companies recruit software engineers, including building nearshore engineering teams in Latin America, Canada, and Europe. ## Guides - [How to Choose a Startup Recruiting Firm](https://startuprecruitingfirms.com/guides/how-to-choose/): A practical framework for picking a recruiting partner that actually fits early-stage hiring.