Fast-growing SaaS startups trust Captivate Talent to build and grow their revenue teams
Captivate Talent is trusted by early-to-growth stage founders and leaders to help hire top talent in both leadership and individual contributor roles across sales, marketing, customer success, and revenue operations.
Paddle builds US sales team through Captivate Talent to support global expansion
FinTech
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$200M Series D
UK
Captivate Talent helped Paddle, a global FinTech company, successfully expand into the US market by providing expertise on hiring in the US. They quickly found the right candidate for their RVP of Americas role and helped build out additional AEs and SDRs. This helped Paddle successful enter the US market and later raise an additional $200M in Series D funding.
Top language learning platform does 2x revenue after expanding to B2B market with early revenue hires from Captivate Talent
"The Captivate Talent team placed me in my current role and now I am so lucky I get to continue working with them to find new talent to expand my team!
They have been wonderful across initial hiring and checking in, to bringing me fantastic candidates to join my team and aligning experience thoughtfully. One of the best things about working with Captivate is that you get to work with the whole team. With such an expansive team full of brilliant recruiters, they've been key to our team's success as well as my personal success."
Meredith Silver
First US B2B Sales Leader
1st placement
First US Sales Leader - Director of B2B Sales and Customer Success, North America
Captivate Talent finds niche, technical sales hires to support BrowserStack’s US footprint growth
Captivate Talent has always done a great job with providing candidates that exactly fit what I’m looking for from resume, background, etc. They never provide me with a bunch of unqualified candidates to sort through. It’s always specific and targeted.
Captivate Talent helps Polymer find experienced VP of Sales to scale beyond product-market fit
"We knew the [job] requirements, but the profile was hazy. Captivate’s background in early stage hires helped shape the job description and offering. We ended up targeting candidates that were able to be more hands on, because that’s truly needed and defining that early on with Captivate was a huge plus."
DEI analytics platform partners with Captivate Talent for critical, diverse sales hires—results in millions in pipeline for ARR
"I felt like the search was going to be a win when we delivered the 2nd and 3rd rounds of feedback to the Captivate team. They came back with a further refined candidate list that matched the feedback that we gave them. We knew that a) the candidates were available, b ) Captivate would get them, and c) that we had a good working relationship with this team and would be successful."
LegalTech startup finds their perfect fit VP of Sales through Captivate Talent
"Captivate Talent communicated seamlessly with us throughout the hiring process. With their help in reviewing candidate profiles and discussing pros and cons, we found the perfect fit for our needs. The quality of candidates they provided positively influenced our decision-making process."
Macorva secures full-scale Enterprise deals, drives growth with strategic sales hires through Captivate Talent
"Captivate's commitment to understanding our company and getting us what we were asking for was the biggest difference maker in this experience. Captivate has been instrumental in our growth. The hires we got from them have helped us secure multiple full-scale enterprise deals."
Carley Childress
Founder, Chief Product Officer
1st placement
Lead Development Executive (promoted to Director of Business Development)
Additional placements
Senior Enterprise Account Executive, Account Executive. Enterprise Business Development Representative, Enterprise Account Executive (CX)
Captivate Talent delivers multiple finalists for VP of Marketing role, filled in 51 days
"During the first round of interviews, it was clear that Captivate was presenting quality candidates.
They understood the ask and knew the marketing qualifications, so we could spend more time focusing on further specific items related to culture and role.
We were so confident in Captivate’s candidates that we even tried to create a new role for the runner up!"
RevSure picks Captivate Talent for Head of Marketing search after building rapport through common communities and multiple in-person events
"It has been great getting to know the Captivate Talent team over the past 2 years—first meeting the team at SaaStr 2022 to now completing our Head of Marketing search.
We’ve been impressed with the candidates they have in their network. Not only are they great recruiters, but they are great to partner with as well. The Captivate team feels like a true partner in our network—they aren’t just looking to collect a fee but want to work and win together."
Magic identifies the right sales leaders for different phases of growth through Captivate Talent
“The reason we came back to Captivate to find our Global Head of Sales and Customer Success was because the feedback and iteration was fast the first time.
Within the first 2-3 interviews from Captivate’s candidates, we had the right person in mind.”
SALUS partners with Captivate Talent to find industry-leading CRO in 6 weeks
"Captivate Talent embodied our values while searching for our new sales leader. They represented us exceptionally well, and Shirin, our hired candidate, even remarked that Captivate was the best recruiting firm she's worked with. This speaks volumes about the level of partnership Captivate brought to the table.
Their process and experience proved invaluable, enabling us to complete this search in just six weeks from kick-off."
SVP of Sales, VP of Sales, Director of Sales, Director of Marketing, Director of Sales Operations, Additional AEs, Additional Marketing Managers, and CSMs