Find candidates by the companies they work for
The strongest signal that someone can do a job at your company is often not on their profile at all. It is a property of where they have worked: the stage, the size, the funding environment, the amount of structure they had around them.
Nyne Talent Search filters on the employer as well as the person, so you can express that directly instead of approximating it with a list of company names you happened to think of.
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Employer filters
These combine freely with the role filters and with a written brief. A single search can ask for detection engineers, in Berlin or London, at Series B companies of 50 to 250 people that raised in the last eighteen months.
- Funding stage
- Filter by funding stages a company has been through, or by its latest stage only, when what you care about is where it is now rather than where it has been.
- Total raised
- Minimum and maximum total funding raised, for when capitalisation is a better proxy for operating reality than stage labels.
- Named investors
- Filter to companies backed by specific investors - useful when a portfolio maps closely to the operating culture you are hiring for.
- Headcount
- Minimum and maximum employee count, scoped to the person's current employer or to anywhere in their history.
- Last round date
- Before or after a given date, to separate recently funded companies from ones a long way into a runway.
Current employer, or anywhere they have worked
Both employer headcount and employer funding carry a scope setting, and the choice changes the search completely.
Scoped to the current employer, you are asking who is at that kind of company right now - the right question when stage-appropriate experience needs to be current. Scoped across their history, you are asking who has ever operated in that environment, which is how you find someone who has already survived the transition you are about to put them through.
Searches this makes possible
These are the searches that are painful to express as a company list, because the list is long, changes monthly, and you will not think of every name.
- Stage-matched operators
- People who have worked at seed or Series A companies before, for a first commercial hire who will have no support function to lean on.
- Scaling experience
- Candidates whose employer grew across a headcount band, when the job is to run the same transition again.
- Portfolio-adjacent hiring
- Engineers at companies backed by a named investor, where the portfolio is a reasonable proxy for engineering standards.
- Recently funded competitors
- People at companies in your industry that closed a round in the last year and are likely to be building the same thing you are.
Signing in
Nyne Talent Search is an account product. Searching runs against your Nyne workspace and spends your workspace credits, so you sign in first.
Common questions
Can I search for candidates at Series A or Series B companies?
Yes. Funding stage is a filter, and it comes in two forms: stages the company has been through at any point, and its latest stage only. Both can be combined with role, location and skill filters in the same search.
Can I find people who work at companies backed by a specific investor?
Yes. Investor names are a filter, so you can restrict a search to companies with a named backer and combine that with the rest of the brief.
Does the company filter apply to current or past employers?
Either. Both the headcount and the funding filters have a scope setting: restrict them to the candidate's current employer, or apply them across their whole work history to find people who have operated in that environment before.
Can I combine company filters with a written brief?
Yes, and that is the intended use. The brief describes the work the person should have done; the company filters describe the environment they should have done it in. They are applied together in a single search.