Startups and Unicorns

Whether your organization is among new startups with 50-100 employees —now hiring your first People leader—or a “tech unicorn” company with over 500 employees in exponential growth mode preparing for an IPO, you’ll benefit from Frederickson Partners’ HR consultants for startups.

We have expertise and experience from working with over 400 venture-funded startups in the past 25 years. We place companies’ first Heads of People, upgrade the Heads of People role to Chief People Officers, and build out HR teams with other key HR roles. This includes placing Heads of Talent Acquisition and Heads of Total Rewards, as well as providing interim People and HR leaders while conducting the search. Our HR consultants for startups have helped companies in virtually every hot tech space to grow by having the right HR strategy and HR leaders. We also provide venture capital investments and advisory to many.

Within technology, we’ve worked with over 50% of the leading companies in each of the following categories: Internet, e-commerce, Ad Tech, EdTech, construction technology, Health Tech and social media. We act as HR consultants for startups to:

• Perform HR needs analysis and strategic planning
• Translate business plans to HR plans
• Define People leader roles and job descriptions
• Manage and support the executive team through their first People and HR hire

Client Case Study:

Bringing Silicon Valley to a Global People Team