Private Equity & Venture Capital

The thesis is sound.
Is the team?

Capital, market, and product can all be right, and the deal still misses because the wrong person was running revenue. We are the leadership talent partner for investors in MarTech, eCommerce, and composable commerce, from diligence through value creation to exit.

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One relationship. The whole portfolio.

Most firms sell you one search and disappear. We work the other way around.

One relationship gives your deal teams and portfolio companies access to leadership advisory and retained executive search, with the appropriate offering scoped to the decision ahead.

PILLAR 01

Leadership Due Diligence

Know before you wire the money. We assess whether the management team can carry your thesis, where the gaps are, and what it costs to close them.

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PILLAR 02

Retained Executive Search

The revenue leaders who actually move the number. Exclusively retained, partner-led, specialized in the GTM roles that decide the next 18 months.

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PILLAR 03

Talent Function Enablement

Install our methodology inside your firm or portfolio companies, so disciplined hiring becomes a repeatable capability, not a recurring fire drill.

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External market perspective

Commercial Talent Intelligence

Internal data explains yesterday. External intelligence predicts tomorrow.

Confidential market conversations bring an external view of commercial leadership exposure to boards, CEOs, and investors. Commercial Talent Intelligence examines the market outside the room; Leadership Due Diligence evaluates the management team inside it.

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Why investors call us first

Not a generalist firm with a private equity brochure.

For 30 years we have worked one slice of the market deeply: revenue and GTM leadership for MarTech, eCommerce, supply chain, and composable commerce software. When a leadership gap can sink a hold period, you do not want a recruiter learning your category on your clock.

The only recruiter admitted to the MACH Alliance. We sit inside the composable commerce community, not outside it looking in.
We built the bench at category-defining outcomes. 18 leadership hires at Demandware ahead of its acquisition by Salesforce. 13 placements at Vendavo, each closed in under 60 days.
First-revenue-leader specialists. The first sales executive at more than two dozen software startups, and the first sales leader for a dozen-plus European platforms entering the US.
A network you cannot rebuild quickly. A 28,000-person personal database in this vertical, built over three decades, most of whom take our call.
DemandwareSAP HybrisBloomreachVendavoElastic PathNarvarPivotree
How we work with investors

Underwritten people risk, across the whole hold period.

Pre-close

Read the team against the thesis

An objective, written view of who can scale, who is in the wrong seat, and what the first 12 months of org cost really looks like. Fast enough for a live deal.

Hold period

Fill and de-risk the key seats

We fill revenue-critical roles on retained, and pressure-test the team you inherited, so you are not surprised in quarter three by a gap you could have seen on day one.

Toward exit

Make the team a multiplier

A clean, complete, aligned leadership team is an acquisition multiplier. We help you finish the org chart and tell the leadership story a buyer will pay for.

87%
Two-year retention
63
Day avg executive close
30 yrs
One category, deeply
28K
Person vertical network

Let's talk before your next deal closes.

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