Pre-Seed Startup Case Study
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The Challenge
A pre-seed SaaS startup aiming to disrupt the wholesale industry needed to build a high calibre founding engineering team onsite, full-time in Berlin. Despite conducting over 40 interviews, they hadn’t made a single hire.
They needed a partner who could streamline the process, reduce time-to-hire, and deliver engineers capable of thriving in a fast-paced, zero-to-one environment.
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The Solution
We partnered directly with the founding team to diagnose the bottlenecks, map out immediate, mid-term, and long-term talent pools, and deploy two dedicated talent architects to build the team from scratch.
The key? Investing upfront to deeply understand the company’s DNA; its culture, expectations, and the kind of engineering mindset they wanted to cultivate. This alignment became the foundation for everything that followed.​
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The Results
Over an 18-month period:
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We were briefed on 11 core roles
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Delivered just 35 CVs
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Secured 12 offers
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11 hires made
All founding engineers. All onsite in Berlin. All aligned with the company’s mission and pace.
We are now planning for Series A with them for the next phase of their journey.​​
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Client Testimonial
They have supported us on two hiring drives with high success in hard-to-find positions. As we are a fully on-site team at an early stage, the requirements focused not just on hard skills, software and data but also soft skills around the mentality our team required and the drive to be on-site with us. The team delivered in quick time on all positions. We gave them 11 openings, and they filled all 11.
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