100%
of retained searches filled — every one since 2015
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VC & PEThe same standard of hire, portfolio-wide.
You're not making one technology leadership appointment. You're making them repeatedly, across companies with different founders, different maturity and different appetites for being helped. What you need is a process that travels.
96%
of 50+ placements since 2015 still in role at 12 months
30 days
typical time to a secured hire from engagement
12 months
replacement guarantee as standard, whatever the reason
Measured across 50+ retained searches Edison Hill has run since 2015.
The problem you actually have
Introducing a search firm is a reputational act.
When you put a search firm in front of a portfolio founder, you are spending your own credibility. If the process is heavy, or the shortlist is padded, or the firm treats your founder as a lead rather than a client, that lands on you — not on them.
It's why the most useful thing we can show you isn't a placement count. It's an investor who made exactly that introduction and then said so publicly, next to the founder he introduced us to and the CTO who took the job.
What we do for investors
- Post-investment CTO mandates — including the first-ever CTO seat, where the role has to be defined before it can be filled
- Leadership layer build-out — VP Engineering, Director of Engineering and the structure beneath the CTO
- Chief AI Officer appointments — a seat most boards are creating for the first time
- Transformation hires — leadership for platform modernisation and product-led transitions, under a board timetable
What makes it repeatable
- A behavioural job survey across every stakeholder — including you — so the brief is agreed in writing before the market is touched
- Consistent, transparent assessment — every candidate measured the same structured way, so a shortlist means the same thing in every company
- A 12-month replacement guarantee as standard — the risk sits with us, not with the portfolio company
- A record you can check — every retained search filled since 2015, 96% of placements still in role at 12 months
On the record
An investor who made the introduction.
The investor
“With this being such a critical hire and with the market being the way it is, I was happy to introduce Warren to Harper’s founders. I’m happy it paid off and I’m looking forward to helping their new CTO settle into their new role.”
Andrew DeeleySolid Bond Capital
Straight answers
For investors, answered straight.
Why do VC and PE-backed scaleups use Edison Hill?
Because the process travels. A behavioural job survey across every stakeholder, including the investor, so the brief is agreed in writing before the market is touched. Consistent, transparent assessment, so a shortlist means the same thing in every company. A 12-month replacement guarantee as standard, so the risk sits with us, not with the portfolio company. And a record you can check: every retained search filled since 2015, 96% of placements still in role at 12 months. On the Harper search, the investor who made the introduction went on record alongside the founder and the CTO placed.
Do you work with investors on portfolio hires?
Yes. Alongside founder-led searches we work directly with VC and PE investors who need CTO, VP Engineering or Chief AI Officer appointments across NYC-based portfolio companies — with a consistent assessment framework across every one.
How do you de-risk a senior technology placement?
Four steps, run the same way every time: a behavioural job survey to get every stakeholder aligned on what “right” actually means; deep market mapping of the whole addressable market; competency-based screening so every candidate is measured the same way; and onboarding and retention, because the search ends when the hire is embedded, not at the offer. The result is 96% of placements still in role at 12 months and 93% at two years, against an industry benchmark of 81.5% for executive-level retention over the first year.
What happens if the hire doesn’t work out?
Every placement carries a 12-month replacement guarantee as standard — if they leave, for any reason, we run it again. In practice it’s rarely called on: 96% of the people we place are still in role 12 months later.
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