MatchStar Venture Search

For over a decade and a half, MatchStar has successfully placed hundreds of VP, Director, and C-Level executives into core leadership positions at the most innovative, venture backed companies in the world. We are a semi-retained, performance driven executive search firm that overcomes the limitations of the fully retained search model – expensive fees, large deposits, limited candidates, and long lead times. MatchStar "de-risks" the process for high growth tech companies by: 1.Employing a unique search methodology called "Iterative Profiling" – which combines state-of-the-art email targeting with traditional research based headhunting – resulting in a 90% agency placement/success rate. 2.Leveraging a flexible “Fee for Performance” model, which minimizes upfront costs, pays on success, and eliminates replacement risk. 3.Understanding the intimate challenges uniquely faced by earlier stage, high growth company CEOs and their boards. We are both functionally and domain agnostic, and focus on finding exceptional candidates that have scaled earlier stage, high growth companies through similar life cycle stage challenges. We work on search assignments in all major cities of the U.S. (with an emphasis on the Mid-Atlantic through Boston region and California), as well as Canada, Latin America, Europe and Asia.