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As part of Insight Partners' ‘Centre of Excellence’, Strive is an approved supplier for GTM hiring across its SaaS portfolio.

There was a need for a confidential VP-level RevOps hire within one of the Insight portfolio companies, and a trusted partner was required to conduct the search.

Read how Strive completed this complex and challenging search and had a successful candidate in seat within 8 weeks.

Strive initially engaged with Grip Security after a vacancy had remained un-filled for a period of 6 months. Drew was struggling to find the right technically minded and culturally aligned sales reps to build out his founding sales team in the US.

After an extensive search, Strive successfully landed one of the founding Account Executives and Business Development Reps.

Strive and Lookout have had an ongoing relationship for the past three years whereby we have been their sole partner for Go-To-Market hiring across EMEA.

Following an acquisition, Lookout was looking to scale their EMEA sales team and needed a partner who could help them do this - FAST!

In Quarter 4 of 2021, Strive successfully delivered on a 30+ FTE hiring plan.

LinearB originally engaged with Strive due to a difficulty in hiring technically aligned, culturally right, ambitious A players who could play a key role as part of the founding GTM team.

Strive are now the Exclusive GTM growth partner globally for LinearB & have placed over 15 candidates into the organisation across Sales leadership, Direct Sales, Technical Sales, Business Development, & Marketing.

StreamNative and Strive partnered early on in 2022 to help solve the hiring pain in EMEA.

Upon partnering it was quickly established StreamNative were looking to grow the whole GTM team and thus Strive were able to expand the account by taking on Sales Representative, Customer Success and Development roles, as well as Talent Acquisition and HR positions. 

ActZero engaged with Strive as a recruitment partner to help attract the best SMB and Mid-Market account executives in the US. In prior years, recruitment of experienced sales reps had been a challenge and time burden on the business.

By outsourcing this responsibility, ActZero have now spent more time meeting qualified individuals which ultimately has pushed the standard of hire up. This in turn is creating more sales and customer retention as the business continues to grow.

Strive had previously worked with SEDNA's VP of Sales in a past venture - successfully placing multiples enterprise sales reps across EMEA.

When he moved to SEDNA, we re-engaged and worked on a hard to fill role focusing on building the partnership eco-system.

Strive was introduced to CluedIn through their VC investor, Dawn Capital.

Following a Series A round of $15m, they were looking to build their EMEA sales function. Strive was retained to help achieve their hiring goals.

Using our Focus solution, Strive were able to successfully place a number of strategic hires across the GTM function.

Strive were recommended to SheerID as a proven recruitment partner who could help build sales teams from the ground up.

SheerID were looking to expand their EMEA business and had faced challenges with a Solution Architect role. After months of trying to fill the role but being un-successful, Strive were introduced and partnered on a retained basis to ensure the role was filled within a tight timeframe.

Strive and Showpad have had an ongoing relationship for the past two years where we have been their go-to-recruiter for senior sales hires across Europe.

Showpad had aggressive growth plans across EMEA and needed a recruitment partner who could identify senior sales professionals to help spearhead expansion into specific countries.

They had lost confidence in a previous recruitment partner and we partnered closely to help build their GTM teams.

Strive partnered with Auth0 during a key part of their journey, pre-acquisition.

There was a huge need for Go-To-Market hiring in EMEA and needed a reliable partner who could react quickly to the surge in demand.

Following their Series A fundraise, Gtmhub appointed seasoned global revenue executive Eric Marterella as CRO to build & scale the GTM sales team. Strive were introduced to Eric by one of Gtmhub’s founding executives to support their hiring needs. 

Within the first Quarter, Strive had headhunted 10 MEDDICC trained salespeople globally, who were all instrumental in creating the initial revenue that enabled Gtmhub’s hypergrowth and further $150m fundraise up to series C in December 2021. 

After Strive’s success within the RPA space, Strive reached out to the CEO as we believed we could help with GTM hiring.

After being introduced to the VP, the team has successfully placed a number of key hires.

Contentsquare is a Software-as-a-Service platform that empowers brands to create better customer experiences on web, mobile, and apps.

Strive have worked closely with ContentSquare for 18 months, becoming a close recruitment partner to them, helping them build their sales division in Munich, Germany.

At the time we engaged with UiPath, they had just closed Series C and were looking to scale their UK&I team quickly.

Given they had no Talent Acquisition teams in the EMEA region, they were facing challenges filling these particular roles.

When we first engaged with Verkada, they were looking to hire their first twenty sales employees in EMEA. Following a conversation with the MD of EMEA, they believed we could help.

The initial challenge was to build out their UK Mid-Market function, an area in which they have previously struggled to identify the right profiles. Once these roles were filled, we assisted them in building out their Associate Account Executive function.

Prior to their F5 acquisition, Shape Security needed to hire a number of EMEA based revenue generators fast.

Over a three month period, we worked closely with Usman Gulfaraz and headhunted three Regional Sales Managers from other reputable security vendors (Symantec, Palo Alto Networks, Akamai Technologies).

Other recruiters had failed to source the necessary talent that had experience selling disruptive solutions to complex enterprise sized organisations.

Following an approach by Strive, Strider engaged us on a retained search basis, after being impressed by our outreach, our experience and also from referencing us in the market.

Strider needed support with a key executive hire, which they had been struggling to fill for some time due to the experience required and the niche candidate pool

Strive had previously worked with SEDNA's VP of Global Sales in a past venture and had successfully placed multiples enterprise sales reps across EMEA, building a whole team in France and adding to the German and UK teams.

When he joined SEDNA, we re-engaged and worked on a hard to fill executive level sales role, focusing on building the partnership eco-system.

OpenGI were acquired by Montagu, a Private Equity firm. Following the Acquisition, their product changed from services and hardware to a SaaS platform, and this required a new CEO and CSO to join the business.

They needed individuals who had gone through a high growth journey and due to a number of key elements to the roles, these were extremely niche searches and required a robust methodology.

Strive and Lookout have had an ongoing relationship for the past three years whereby we have been their sole partner for Go-To-Market hiring across EMEA.

Following an acquisition, Lookout was looking to scale their EMEA sales team and needed a partner who could help them hire a Channel Director as part of an overall 30+ FTE hiring plan.

Crowdsec were engaged by Strive after various cold outreach methods gained their attention. At that time they were still formulating their hiring plan, but we
remained in touch and when they needed to add a Chief Sales Officer to the business, they approached us.

Whilst they hired an internal candidate from their VC for the position, after impressing them with our work on the role, they then gave us an exclusive project to fill a CMO role.

StreamNative and Strive partnered early on in 2022 to help solve the hiring challenges in EMEA across their GTM function.

After a number of successful hires, Gilles asked if we could hire their Head of People to help improve Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, Culture, People Ops and Human Resource policy across the EMEA business.

CrowdSec were engaged by Strive after various cold outreach methods gained their attention. At that time they were still formulating their hiring plan, but we remained in touch and when they needed to add a Chief Sales Officer to the business, they approached us.

After impressing them with our work on the role, they then gave us an exclusive project to fill a CMO role, alongside two other Marketing positions.

Strive were introduced to Auvesy through their Private Equity investor, HG Capital, following an investment of £7.4 million. Initially recruiting for their GTM team in Germany, Strive were Auvesy's first external recruitment partner - and following the creation of a valuable relationship, were quickly requested to work on a retained basis to help scale their US team, following an acquisition of MDT.

Working with the Hiring Managers across both countries, Strive supported Auvesy in mapping their candidate market and used market intelligence obtained on their behalf to help benchmark and improve their Value Proposition.

One Trading originally engaged with Strive due to an urgent need to grow their Engineering team ahead of key product launches, which were key to them obtaining their trading licence, and subsequently their next funding round. 

Strive successfully placed the first hire in only 10 days, quickly followed by several more placements in the following few weeks. Now six months into the partnership, it remains as successful, due to an open and transparent relationship and Strive ensuring a high quality of candidates. 

Strive was introduced to CluedIn through their VC investor, Dawn Capital.

Following a Series A round of $15m, they were looking to build their Engineering function. Strive was retained to help achieve their hiring goals.

Using our Focus solution, Strive were able to successfully place a number of strategic hires across the Engineering function.

Based on a successful relationship with their Talent Acquisition Manager at a previous company, In The Pocket engaged Strive to support them with a critical Engineering Lead Hire. 

Through a collaborative relationship, clear criteria was set for the role to allow Strive to map the market and deliver of pool of highly relevant candidates, within a short timeframe.