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We build the teams behind ambitious technology companies.

We work with venture-backed technology companies when hiring is tied to what gets built next. We diagnose the need before we recruit.

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16 years
Recruiting technology talent
700+
The Tech Trek episodes
Seed → Growth
Primary stage focus
Founder-led
Former software & data engineer
Amir Bormand, co-founder of Elevano
01 — Why Elevano

Founded by an engineer. It shows in the scoping.

Founded by a former software and data engineer, that background shapes how we read a technical problem, level a role, and talk to the people we recruit. Today, the approach is unchanged: a specialist team focused on technology talent, with a network built one conversation at a time.

02 — Engagement models

One partner. Three ways to engage.

The right model depends on what you’re building. We work that out with you before recruiting starts.

Search

For the hire that changes the trajectory.

Dedicated search for critical individual hires: technical executives, engineering and product leaders, data and AI leaders, and high-impact individual contributors.

Best for
One role, high consequence
Shape
Retained or exclusive search

Build

For a hiring initiative with a deadline.

A scoped program to build part of a team, from several engineers to a data function, delivered in a fixed window.

Best for
Multiple roles, one initiative
Shape
Scoped program, fixed window

Embed

For companies that need capability, not a search.

Embedded recruiting capacity working inside your organization, on your tools and rituals, for teams hiring continuously and needing additional recruiting capacity.

Best for
Continuous hiring
Shape
Embedded recruiting capacity, monthly
03 — Method

Every engagement moves through the same sequence. The model comes last.

  1. 01
    Diagnose

    Understand the hiring plan, the team as it stands, the market, internal capacity, and the gap that is actually blocking it.

  2. 02
    Consult

    Advise on level, scope, comp and sequence before anyone writes a job description.

  3. 03
    Recruit

    Own the execution with the high-touch ownership and rigor of an executive search: a single search, a build, or embedded capacity.

04 — Selected work
Retell AI
LiveKit
Tessera Labs
Edge Delta
Junction
Blooming Health

700+ conversations with the people building it.

Our podcast is how a lot of this network was built. Founders, CTOs, engineering and product leaders, data and AI leaders, investors and operators, on the record about how they hire and what they are building.

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