For investors
Portfolio partnerships for venture funds.
Every firm you introduce to a founder carries your fund's name.
[solved] partners with venture funds to give their portfolio companies a senior search partner for consequential hires: defining the role, calibrating the market and assessing candidates before they reach the hiring team. Portfolio companies receive a preferred rate and a first working session within three business days. Your fund receives quarterly hiring clinics, quarterly talent market briefings and, with each founder's consent, visibility into leadership searches.
What portfolio companies receive
A preferred rate and a faster start. Companies contract with [solved] directly and keep full control of their search.
Standard fee
$10,000
Any company, before a portfolio partnership.
Sole external search firm for 20 business days, starting when you approve the Signal Spec and outreach is ready.
Replacement coverage of 180 days.
Portfolio partnership
$9,000
For companies backed by a partner fund.
Sole external search firm for 20 business days, starting when you approve the Signal Spec and outreach is ready.
Replacement coverage of 180 days.
Direct Start and multi-role engagements also carry preferred rates, set out in the fee schedule. Each role carries one combined preferred rate.
Priority start
Your first working session within three business days
Counted from the day the engagement begins.
Leadership searches, in view
The founder decides what the fund sees. With their consent, partners follow the milestones of a leadership search: direction approved, shortlist reached, final interviews and decision. Candidate identities and assessment details stay with the company unless the founder chooses to share them.
What your fund receives
Practical hiring support for your founders and market intelligence for your partners.
Quarterly, group sessions
Hiring clinics for your founders
Founders across your portfolio bring an upcoming critical hire and leave with a clearer view of what the person must accomplish, the level the role requires, the trade-offs to expect and where to search. When the search begins, the direction is already clear.
Quarterly
Talent market briefings
A concise view of compensation, candidate availability and hiring conditions across your portfolio's markets, drawn from current market data and patterns across our searches. Built for partner meetings, board conversations and the support your platform team gives founders.
Founders stay in control
Partnership gives founders access, support and a preferred rate. The search remains theirs.
- They engage [solved] directly
- They approve their own Signal Spec and search direction
- They control candidate information
- They choose what the fund sees
- They make the final hiring decision
How a partnership works
01
A short call
We agree how introductions reach us, when your clinics run, what your briefings cover and how board visibility is shared.
02
A one-page letter
The terms in writing: eligibility, the portfolio rate, priority start and the founder-consent rule.
03
Introductions
Introduce a company through the form below. We reply to you and the founder within one business day.
Give your portfolio companies a stronger way to make consequential hires.
Introduce a portfolio company
We reply to you and the founder within one business day.
Questions
Who qualifies for a portfolio partnership?
Any company backed by a partner fund, confirmed when its engagement begins. The rate applies to every search we accept.
Does the portfolio rate combine with other preferred rates?
Yes, once. A portfolio partnership with Direct Start, Exclusive Search or a multi-role engagement brings Specialist Search to $8,500 and Leadership Search to $17,000. Each role carries one preferred rate.
What does partnership cost the fund?
Fees apply only to the searches portfolio companies commission. Companies contract with [solved] and settle fees directly.
Are hiring clinics private or group sessions?
Group sessions, held each quarter for the founders in your portfolio, so each founder also hears how others approach their roles.
What does the fund see during a leadership search?
With the founder's consent, the milestones: direction approved, shortlist reached, final interviews and decision. Candidate identities and assessment details stay with the company unless the founder chooses to share them.
How are briefings kept confidential?
Briefings draw on current market data and patterns across our searches, described at a level that keeps every company and candidate unidentifiable.