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Featured · Q1 2026
Technology · United States

A Series-C fintech needed forty hires across five departments before their next board meeting.

Engagement type · Embedded talent partner
In January 2026, a $90M-ARR fintech client closed a Series C and committed to 40 hires across engineering, finance, ops, marketing and risk in 90 days. We embedded two partners and a research analyst on-site three days a week, ran a single weekly scorecard meeting with the CEO, and project-managed every loop from intake to offer.
By day 89, 38 of 40 offers were accepted. The remaining two — both VP-of-Engineering candidates — accepted in the second week of Q2 after a structural change to the role. Zero replacements invoked in the six months since.
38/40
Offers accepted by day 89
90days
Kick-off to substantially complete
100%
Six-month retention as of writing
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Cycle
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Legal · USRetained · Q1 2026
First-GC search for a pre-IPO Delaware fintech ahead of S-1 filing
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COO succession plus full supply-chain leadership build at a $1.2B distributor
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We had worked with three other firms before Rivago. Two of them sent us decks. One of them sent us a portal. Rivago sent us a partner. Six months in, every one of the fourteen people they placed is still here.

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