Private Equity/Venture Capital Recruitment

What is the Private Equity and Venture Capital Industry?

Providing funding and business support for start-ups and scale ups, PE and VC companies have a portfolio of clients who they work with to maximise growth and make a return. Private equity investing involves lower risk with a longer return horizon, whereas venture capital investments carry higher risk and the potential for higher returns. This is a very competitive market, with many businesses looking to identify the next unicorn and create rich returns from their investments. Investments will range across a number of sectors, with some choosing to become specialists in certain verticals such as Edtech, Fintech and Proptech. Other sectors include Climate tech and Ai which is top of a lot of company’s requirements from investors.

How does the Private Equity and Venture Capital Industries work with recruitment agencies like ours?

Both types of business look towards recruitment agencies to recruit C suite candidates and will work with well-connected recruitment agencies to hire the best available talent, from both passive and active databases. As many roles are brand new, agencies will work with clients on a consultancy basis to form the perfect brief to help identify the best candidates. Getting the right hiring strategy when a company receives investment can be invaluable as making the wrong recruitment decision can have significant cost implications as well as lost time and lack of growth. Recruitment agencies for private equity and venture capitalists will give invaluable insight into the marketplace and ensure investment from recruitment is made from informed decision making.

Why does the Private Equity and Venture Capital industry work with The Candidate?

With our partnerships and understanding of what’s required to work with a PE or VC firm, we’re at the forefront of being able to give recruitment advice and a consultancy service to both investors and those seeking investment. Our Executive Search team for Private Equity and Venture Capitalist companies has over 25 year’s experience and can provide talent mapping, restructuring advice and headhunting for C-suite hires. We have second-to-none market intelligence in the digital, marketing, creative, marketing agency and analytics markets at senior level, developed since our launch in 2012 and growing alongside many candidate’s careers. This is why we have worked as a retained partner for over 10 years with a number of private equity firms and delivered top class stakeholders who deliver.

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