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Secure technical talent for your startup.
Disrupt the time-consuming old school process of vetting hundreds of unqualified candidates to uncover a few good matches. With Kofi Group, you get a highly calibrated shortlist representing the top 5% of candidates who meet your requirements and share your vision for building the future.
Early Stage Companies
For those strategic early hires, finding the perfect fit is critical. We help pre-seed and seed stage companies make foundational hires.
- Broaden your network with our extensive talent pool.
- Hire top candidates with our proven and scalable strategies
- Tap into our expertise as a cost-effective alternative to an in-house recruiter.
Learn how we helped Catio hire a Founding Full-Stack Engineer.
Growth Stage Companies
Hire proven technical talent who share your mission to scale. We match exceptional talent with growing tech companies.
- Leverage our established network
- Save time and money on hiring
- Get a shortlist of leading off-market technical candidates-tailored to your exact specs.
Discover how we helped Cypress.io fill 33 engineering roles.
Why Kofi Group
Your Trusted Startup Recruitment Partner
Work with recruiters who start with active listening to understand every nuance of your culture, vision, and technical challenges. Get 3-5 highly relevant passive and active candidates in your inbox within 14 days-with full support every step of the way.
Start Hiring Top-Tier Engineers 
Work With One Trusted Partner
Skip The Stack Of Resumes
Get Access To Top-Tier Talent
Hire Quickly, With Confidence
White Glove Service Throughout The Process
Recruitment Toolkit for Founders and Startups
Cash & Equity Computation
Allows easy modeling of three compensation packages.
Role Calibration
For recruiters and hiring managers to quickly get in sync on open roles.
Scorecard Template
Evaluate skills and qualities of potential engineering candidates.
We placed 33 engineers and engineering managers, with a submittal to interview rate of 90%+
Cypress.io – series B, developer tooling
We were referred to them by a VC placed a diverse Data Engineer in less than 6 weeks, after only presenting 7 candidates. We also placed an ML Engineer with them recently.
Rialtic – series A, healthcare
We placed a Full Stack Engineer (Engineer #3) in less than 4 weeks, after only presenting 2 candidates
Catio – seed stage, developer tooling/cloud
We were referred to them by another Founder and placed a Founding Full Stack Engineer (employee #5) after only presenting 6 candidates
Aurora Nova – stealth, space communication
We filled a Backend Engineering role after submitting just 6 candidates. Impressed with the results, Orca retained us to fill additional positions, ultimately replacing their other recruiting partners.
Orca – series A, decentralized finance/blockchain
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