We've had a chance to work with some brilliant founders and teams to help them attract exceptional talent.
We've had the opportunity to work alongside the executive team at Ouster, the leader in the lidar technology space, as their primary recruiting partner. Ouster is building low-cost lidar sensors for use in vehicles, robots, and infrastructure and open-source software to allow their customers to leverage the sensors with little effort.
Ouster most recently merged with Velodyne Lidar in February 2023. Ouster went public via SPAC at a $1.9B valuation in March 2021.
We've completed 6 placements (and counting) across their team, including: their VP of Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineer (SDK), Senior DevOps Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, Senior Embedded Software Engineer, and Embedded Software Engineer.
We've had the opportunity to work alongside the co-founders of Kinetic, a Series B robotics startup building highly automated service centers for electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles, as their primary recruiting partner.
We started partnering with Kinetic when they were a Seed-stage startup, and most recently, Kinetic has raised a $21M Series B from Menlo Ventures, Lux Capital, Construct Capital, and Haystack Ventures.
We've completed 4 placements (and counting) across their team, including: Staff Software Engineer, Product Marketing Manager, founding Mechanical Engineer, and Director of Operations.
We've had the opportunity to work alongside the Founder & CEO and COO of Red Balloon Security, a Series A embedded security startup, as their primary recruiting partner.
Red Balloon Security most recently raised a $21.9M Series A by Bain Capital Ventures, Greycroft, American Family Ventures, and Abstract Ventures.
We've completed 3 placements (and counting) across their team, including: their first Mechanical Engineer (robotics), FPGA Security Engineer, and Security Researcher.
We've had the opportunity to work alongside the Founder at Pear Commerce, a retail ecommerce platform that connects CPGs to retailers, as their primary recruiting partner.
We've successfully placed 3 Senior Software Engineers to help accelerate their product development efforts.
We've had the opportunity to work alongside the founding team at Craftable, a restaurant management SaaS platform, as their primary engineering recruiting partner. Craftable is helping restaurants and bars optimize their operations, reduce labor hours, and gain transparency around their business performance.
We've hired 4 Software Engineers (and counting) across their team to help accelerate the development of their 360 restaurant and hospitality software platform.
We've had the opportunity to work alongside the Founder & CEO and VP of Operations at Avnos, a Series A hybrid direct air capture startup based out of Los Angeles, CA. Avnos is on a mission to combat global climate change by removing CO2 greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. They are commercializing the most advanced technology in direct air capture of CO2 that sucks both carbon and water out of the air.
We've successfully hired 7 roles (and counting) with Avnos - Lead Research Scientist, Advanced Research Scientist, Prototyping Engineer, Sr. Process Engineers, Process Engineer, Pilot Plant, Sr. Project Engineer - to help accelerate their R&D, process development, and commercialization efforts.
We've had the opportunity to work alongside the founders of Etched, a Cupertino-based startup building ASICs specifically designed to run transformer models for generative AI applications.
Etched raised a substantial $120M Series A round of funding led by Primary Ventures, Positive Sum Ventures, and notable investors like Peter Thiel and Kyle Vogt.
The Etched leadership team were not only looking for a partner who could deliver on their aggressive hiring timelines in a compressed amount of time. but they were also looking for a team that could help sustain their high talent bar at scale and be adaptable as hiring needs evolve based on business needs.
We've made 5 placements (and counting) across their team, including: Software Engineer (ML Performance), Software Engineer (LLM Infrastrucure), Machine Learning Researcher, DevOps Infrastructure Engineer, and Member of Technical Staff.
We've had the opportunity to work alongside the founders of Bear Flag Robotics, an autonomous tractor company, as their primary recruiting partner. Bear Flag Robotics is building advanced automation systems to enable unmanned autonomy for tractors.
Bear Flag Robotics was most recently acquired by John Deere for $250m in August 2021. They were previously a Y Combinator startup (W'18) and raised a total of $11.4M in funding.
We've made 9 placements (and counting) across their team, including: their Head of Engineering, Mobile Engineers, Full Stack Software Engineer, Lead Product Designer, Computer Vision & Machine Learning Engineer, IT Specialist, Head of HR, and Technical Program Manager.
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