MatchStar Venture Search
Staffing and RecruitingCalifornia, United States2-10 Employees
MatchStar Venture Search is a staffing and recruiting firm focused on executive search for leadership roles in venture-backed, high-growth technology companies. The company positions its service as a semi-retained, performance-driven model designed to reduce typical risks and costs associated with traditional executive search, aiming to shorten lead times and increase placement success for VP, Director, and C-Level roles. Its client base consists of early-stage, high-growth tech firms seeking seasoned leaders who can scale organizations, with operations spanning major U.S. markets as well as Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Based in San Francisco, California, MatchStar emphasizes an iterative profiling approach that blends targeted outreach with traditional headhunting, and it offers a fee-for-performance structure that emphasizes pay upon success. The firm describes itself as functionally and domain agnostic, seeking candidates who have previously navigated the challenges of scaling at similar life cycle stages.