Candidate Labs

About Candidate Labs

Candidate labs is a modern search firm built by a repeat vc-backed entrepreneur who's personally done the founder journey twice.
We offer executive and professional search for companies that want access to highly entrepreneurial and impactful talent.
Functions we cover: go-to-market, product, design, engineering, finance, and operations.
We've built iconic teams and hired leaders for:
Notion (sequoia capital, index ventures)
Retool (sequoia capital, a16z)
Vercel (accel)
Deel (a16z, spark capital)
Decagon (a16z, bain capital ventures)
Luma AI (a16z)
Credal AI (spark capital)
Cleanlab (bain capital ventures, menlo ventures)
Homie (khosla ventures, OpenAI)
Concourse (a16z)
Complete (accel, stripe)
Muon space (radical ventures, costanoa)
Coda (general catalyst, greylock)
Modern treasury (benchmark)
Dbt labs (sequoia capital, a16z)
Tome (greylock, coatue)
Evenup (bcv, lightspeed, bessemer)
Airbase (first round, menlo ventures)
Lattice (thrive capital)
Sentry.io (accel