High Tech Ventures

Marketability Model

High Tech Ventures uses a proprietary, trademarked Marketability Model to evaluate both companies and candidates. This model:

• Predicts market change and growth in the tech sector.
• Helps assess the likelihood of a startup's success based on talent and hiring.
• Guides career planning and company-building decisions.

This combination of market analysis and talent evaluation allows High Tech Ventures to act as industry analysts, investors, and coaches as well as recruiters.

Who We Work With

High Tech Ventures primarily works with:

• Venture-funded and high-tech startups.
• Founders building their first leadership and technical teams.
• Investors and boards seeking trusted talent partners for portfolio companies.
• Experienced startup professionals and executives looking for new roles.

Approach and Philosophy

Rather than simply collecting resumes, High Tech Ventures:

• Builds and maintains deep relationships with top performers in the tech workforce.
• Focuses on high-quality, well-vetted candidates that fit both skills and culture.
• Stays closely connected to the Boston tech ecosystem and works with companies across the U.S.

Industry knowledge and long-term relationships are central to how High Tech Ventures delivers results for both clients and candidates.

Contingency placement can include:

• Individual contributor roles across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and operations.
• Multiple hires to support company-wide growth.
• Flexible pay-per-hire arrangements for early-stage startups.

These services are designed to cover the full range of positions needed to staff high-tech startups beyond just the executive level.

How the Contingency Process Works

For contingency placements, High Tech Ventures typically:

• Conducts comprehensive candidate research and assessment.
• Designs search strategies based on the client's hiring needs.
• Utilizes an extensive network of highly qualified startup professionals.
• Screens candidates for technical skills, experience, and cultural fit.

The goal is to deliver well-vetted candidates efficiently so startups can hire quickly and confidently.

Benefits for Startup Clients

Contingency placement services are intended to:

• Provide a flexible, cost-effective way to scale teams.
• Save internal time on sourcing and early candidate screening.
• Support rapid growth phases where multiple roles must be filled.

These services complement executive search by helping clients build out full teams at all levels.

High Tech Ventures provides executive search services for venture-funded and high-tech startup companies.

Focus of Executive Search

Executive search work typically covers:

• Board members
• C-level and VP-level leadership
• Senior technical and product leaders
• Other top-performing individual contributors in critical roles

High Tech Ventures has placed senior leaders and key contributors at leading technology companies on both coasts.

How High Tech Ventures Works with Clients

When supporting an executive search, High Tech Ventures:

• Partners closely with founders, hiring managers, and investors.
• Uses the Marketability Model to evaluate company and candidate fit.
• Leverages long-standing relationships within the startup and venture ecosystems.
• Screens candidates for both technical capabilities and cultural fit.

High Tech Ventures works exclusively with startups that are on a high-growth path, with a concentration on pre-funded and venture-funded technology companies.

Value to Venture-Funded Startups

For startup clients, executive search services are designed to:

• Accelerate hiring of trusted, high-impact leaders.
• Reduce the time and effort founders and investors spend sourcing candidates.
• Improve hiring quality by presenting a curated slate of vetted candidates.

Executive search is one of the core services High Tech Ventures offers to help startups build strong, durable leadership teams.

High Tech Ventures provides start-up incubator services to support early-stage technology companies.

Purpose of the Incubator Services

The incubator services are designed to help startups:

• Overcome common early-stage challenges.
• Access experienced guidance and industry knowledge.
• Build the teams they need to scale.

What the Incubator Services Include

According to the company's description, start-up incubator services may include:

• Access to expertise from experienced entrepreneurs, industry experts, and seasoned professionals.
• Networking opportunities with other founders, investors, and stakeholders.
• Access to funding sources such as angel investors and venture capital firms.
• Customized programs and workshops focused on key areas of startup growth and operations.

How Startups Benefit

By working with High Tech Ventures' incubator services, startups can:

• Expand their networks within the startup and venture ecosystems.
• Improve their ability to attract funding and talent.
• Gain structured support while building a sustainable business.

These services complement High Tech Ventures' recruiting work by supporting both company-building and team-building for early-stage startups.

• Phone: (617) 855-8916
• Email: josh@htventures.com
• Website contact form: available on the Contact Us page at https://htventures.com/contact/

How to Reach Out

When contacting High Tech Ventures, it can be helpful to share:

• Whether you are a job seeker, employer, founder, or investor.
• A brief description of your hiring needs or career goals.
• Any relevant timelines or constraints.

High Tech Ventures uses the information you provide to determine how best to support your executive search, contingency hiring, or startup incubation needs.

Location and Service Area

High Tech Ventures is based in the Boston area and works with technology startups and venture-backed companies in Boston and across the United States.

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Roles at High Tech Ventures generally look for candidates who:

• Have a stable career history, ideally with 3–5 year stints at each company.
• Have at least 3 years of professional experience (more senior profiles are also considered if they are hands-on individual contributors).
• Can work some evenings.

Recruiter/coaches often bring strengths or interest in three main areas:

1. Sales – Strong qualification skills and the ability to move recruiting processes forward.
2. Market research – Ability to research how investments are made and how startups grow.
3. Coaching – Capability to deliver and implement High Tech Ventures' Marketability Model for career planning and assessing companies.

Equity and Career Upside

Associates at High Tech Ventures have historically had early stock in notable startups, including companies such as Bladelogic, Bit9/Carbon Black, Veracode, Speechworks, Endeca, Art Technology Group, and others.

The firm has also held stock positions in later-stage and growth companies (for example Dropbox, Bit9 / Carbon Black, Nuodb, Diffeo, and ZappRx, among others).

How to Express Interest

Candidates interested in careers at High Tech Ventures can reach out via the Contact page or by using the main contact details for the firm.

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