About

I founded Venture People because I watched too many founders pick the wrong team and burn the next round.

We're not a traditional hunting firm running bank-style playbooks. We're operators who lived what happens when a startup hires the wrong head — and built a method so that mistake stops being the default. Now extended to the US market with nearshore LatAm talent.

What I saw up close

The first wave of leadership decides whether the next round happens.

I watched up close what happens when a startup hires the wrong head after a round: the team loses speed, product doesn't ship, the board starts asking questions, and six months later the cap table is burned trying to solve a problem that was human from the start.

Traditional hunting doesn't solve this. It decides based on resume, partner intuition, and a 45-minute chat. In a post-Seed startup, that pattern costs months of runway per wrong hire.

I saw it from every seat: as an operator at Wellhub (Gympass) before the unicorn; as founder of Talentu Tech, which scaled from 3 to 157 clients and delivered 497 placements in 3 years; and as an angel investor via FEA Angels, where I backed 50+ early-stage startups making hiring decisions in the dark. Operator, founder, investor: the mistake that most often breaks a good startup is the first wave of leadership.

Venture People was born to trade feel for criteria. Not to remove human judgment — to give it a foundation that survives board scrutiny.

Why nearshore, why now

The math on US hiring stopped working. Nearshore is the rational default.

A funded Series B in 2026 can't afford to spend 18 months of runway on a single senior engineer in San Francisco. Talent across Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina runs 50–70% cheaper for equivalent calibre — fluent English, same timezones, the same productivity. The question stopped being "should we go nearshore" and became "who do we trust to vet it."

That's where Venture People comes in. We've spent 6+ years building the deepest network of senior LatAm operators across Tech, Product, and GTM — the same network that placed 400+ leaders in funded Brazilian startups, now opened to US founders.

What you get

How we work with US founders.

• Response in 1 business day. No queue, no generic message. We respond with context on your position the same business day.
• Senior team on the search, not junior recruiters. You don't get handed off to people without startup experience. Each search runs through a pod of 1 partner, 1 senior Talent Acquisition lead, and a researcher — all trained on VPA, same standard, autonomy to deliver.
• Search exclusivity. We don't shop one profile to multiple clients. The candidates we present to you are presented to you only.
• Retention commitment. 89% of our placements are still in seat after 12 months. We track this because nearshore vendors typically don't.
• Founder-to-founder. We don't sell HR theory. We talk in the language of people building things.