Invenio – Embedded Recruiting for High-Growth Startups

Who we work with

Your challenge

Your team is maxed out. You still have critical hiring goals tied to major initiatives and projects. You need immediate recruiting capacity without hiring full-time recruiters or paying agency fees.

How Invenio helps

Embed experienced recruiters or full recruiting pods into your team.
Take ownership of your most critical and strategic roles.
Operate directly inside your ATS and hiring workflows.
Provide market intelligence, compensation benchmarking, and hiring strategy.
Scale recruiting capacity up for hiring sprints and down as priorities shift.
Extend your team’s capacity without adding permanent headcount.

Featured case study

Jane App

Jane is an online platform for health and wellness practitioners that makes it simple to book, chart, schedule, bill and get paid.

“The Invenio team have been true partners throughout 2024 and instrumental in Jane’s growth.”

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$1.95M

saved

Your challenge

You're scaling fast. Every hire matters. You can’t justify a full talent team yet - but contingent fees are draining your runway. You need recruiting that operates in-house, without the overhead.

How Invenio helps

Embed founding recruiters directly inside your workflows.
End-to-end recruiting execution.
Focus on your most critical roles: engineering, product, and leadership.
Build hiring systems and processes that help your company scale.
Reduce recruiting costs by 40–60% vs agencies.

Featured case study

Reclaim.ai

Reclaim.ai is a smart calendar app that automates and defends the schedules of busy pros and teams.

“Within a few months, we had closed 6 incredible engineering hires and saved over $162,000 in recruiting costs.”

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$162K

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Your challenge

Your portfolio companies need recruiting help beyond what you can support. But traditional agencies burn runway with misaligned incentives. You need a trusted recruiting partner who treats your founders’ capital like their own.

How Invenio helps

Become a trusted recruiting partner for your portfolio companies.
Embedded recruiting model that is more capital-efficient than contingent agencies.
Proven track record supporting high-growth technical startups.
Flexible engagements that scale with each company’s stage.
Strategic recruiting support beyond just filling roles.

What your portfolio gets

Embedded recruiting at 40–60% lower cost than agencies.

Senior startup recruiters who understand scaling teams.

Full transparency and knowledge transfer to internal hiring teams.

Support your portfolio

The Invenio model

Embedded from day one

We join your Slack, adopt your ATS, sync with your cadence, and become indistinguishable from your internal team. No hand-offs, no agency.

AI-accelerated execution

AI supports sourcing, note-taking, follow-ups, and admin - so our recruiters focus where it matters: judgment, relationships, and closing the right talent.

Flat weekly rate

No commissions. No markups. No surprises.
A predictable cost that means our incentives are perfectly aligned with yours - we win when your team wins.

Scale up or down as needed

Add capacity when hiring ramps. Pull back when it doesn’t. From 3-month sprints to 3-year partnerships - without switching vendors or rebuilding context.

How we run recruiting with you

Most agencies operate from the outside in. We become part of your team - operating inside your workflows and owning delivery.

We Embed

Plug into your Slack, ATS, email and workflows. Sync with your team and learn your hiring bar - fast.

We strategize

Map the org plan, prioritize the roadmap, define the hiring bar, align on compensation philosophy, refine the interviewing process.

We execute

Run full-cycle recruiting for your hardest roles - sourcing, screening, coordinating, and closing.

We scale

Add recruiting capacity as hiring ramps and scale down when priorities shift.

Hiring outcomes with Invenio

ZenHub

They have been integral to making a significant amount of hires, scaling up and down with our needs.

Tyler Gaffney

CEO

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Manifold

Exceptional recruiters who become true partners in the hiring process.

Nicole Osborne

Head of People

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Jane App

The Invenio team have been true partners throughout 2024 and instrumental in Jane's growth.

Keiran Cooper

Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

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Who we work with

Jane App

Reclaim.ai

What your portfolio gets

The Invenio model

How we run recruiting with you

Hiring outcomes with Invenio

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