Bespoke Partners is the largest firm focused exclusively on executive recruiting for software and SaaS companies in the United States.
We were founded in 2011 with a key insight: Human capital is now the most critical factor in the success of software and SaaS companies.
Private equity firms and venture capital firms utilize longstanding best practices for financial engineering and operational improvements to drive software company growth.
Bespoke Partners has developed similar best practices for maximizing the impact of human capital on value creation, to enable software companies to achieve targeted growth.
We call it the “Science of Search.”
Traditional search techniques rely on haphazard networking and gut feelings about candidates.
In contrast, our searches are data-driven and based on state-of-the-art management science combined with our leadership advisory expertise. We tuned these techniques with our specialization in software and SaaS companies.
Our process accelerates identifying, recruiting and onboarding of leaders who know how to execute on growth plans.
The results speak for themselves:
Our placed finance executives on average cut software company hold periods by one third.
Our typical C-level searches take half the time of the industry average.
We have placed more than 1,000 senior executives who have transformed more than 250 portfolio companies.
Our placed leaders have driven hundreds of exits, M&A and strategic growth initiatives.
Our recruiting success rate is 95% because our Search 2.0 process results in First Time Right placements.
We transform entire leadership teams when necessary, typically within the first 100 days after a private equity acquisition
More than 70 top tier private equity firms have partnered with Bespoke on mission-critical searches
A full 100% of our tier one clients are repeat clients