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The Most Valuable Answer in Fundraising Is Sometimes No
Ruotolo Associates has spent more than 45 years teaching nonprofits a counterintuitive discipline: before asking donors for money, ask whether the institution is ready to deserve a yes.
CreatorForce and the people behind the famous face
A celebrity can bring an audience. CreatorForce set out to find the partners and operators who could turn that attention into a consumer business - a story that now leads to Cr8tify.
PR Talent knows who belongs on the shortlist
A former publicist built a recruiting firm around people who know the work. Its most useful lesson comes when the first résumés arrive and the hiring manager has to explain what is missing.
The Recruiter Who Went Rogue for Women in the C-Suite
Tracy Saunders spent two decades placing executives for Google, Amazon and Cisco. Then she flipped the model - and built a discreet network that gets senior women hired, paid and promoted without the noise.
Crelate Wants to Turn the Recruiting Database Into a Living Network
The Idaho software company spent years making the applicant-tracking system more flexible. Now it is betting that recruiters need a database that searches, refreshes and suggests - without taking the relationship out of their hands.
The Company Private Equity Calls When the Clock Is Ticking
BluWave built an invite-only network of vetted specialists and matches buyout firms with the exact consultant, interim CFO, or diligence team they need - usually inside a day, usually for free.
Consello Is Building a Boardroom Without Walls
The young firm pairs former operators, athletes and dealmakers with an investment arm - a model designed to turn introductions and advice into measurable corporate action.
The Agency That Staffs the Agencies
Celeste Gudas started 24 Seven in 2000 to staff fashion and beauty brands. Twenty-five years and eight acquisitions later, it is the No. 2 marketing and creative staffing firm in America - and it is quietly betting that the future of hiring is a matching algorithm plus a human who has read 3,000 salary surveys.
AcuityX Wants to Fix the Expensive Gap Between the Plan and the Work
The Abu Dhabi consultancy has bundled company formation, executive search, advisory and people performance into one operator-led firm. Its bet is that strategy works better when the people advising have also carried the operational consequences.
Korn Ferry
Korn Ferry began with one phone, one assistant and a Rolodex. Now the $2.9 billion firm wants its data, consultants and software inside every consequential decision a company makes about people.
AMN Healthcare
AMN began by placing traveling nurses. Forty years later, it sells health systems something broader: the people, software and operating discipline to keep care moving when labor gets scarce, expensive or suddenly unavailable.
Infotech Spectrum Inc
Infotech Spectrum Inc is a Santa Clara, California IT consulting and professional staffing firm founded in 2003. It pairs contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement staffing with delivery services spanning strategic IT consulting, enterprise software, cloud, and computer systems validation (CSV) for regulated life sciences work. Working with clients such as Gilead, Genentech, Cisco, and Juul, the roughly 86-person company blends onsite Silicon Valley talent with a global delivery model to help enterprises staff hard-to-fill roles and ship technology projects on schedule and on budget.
Censia
Censia is a San Francisco-based talent intelligence company that uses AI to turn billions of workforce data points into skills-based profiles of employees and candidates. Its platform enriches HR systems - most notably Workday - so enterprises can see hidden internal talent, plan their workforce around skills rather than job titles, and make faster, fairer hiring and mobility decisions. Founded in 2017 and led by CEO Joanna Riley, Censia sells to large enterprises and pitches itself on ethical, bias-aware AI applied to talent data.
HiWire
HiWire is a Silicon Valley advisory firm that helps early-stage startups offload three of the most time-consuming jobs a founder faces: recruiting senior talent, building investor-ready business and product plans, and raising money. Founded by Stanford-trained engineer and longtime recruiter Web Augustine, HiWire offers retained executive search for Director, VP and CEO roles at entrepreneur-friendly fees, contract sourcing, a rapid-turnaround program called SearchXeleration, and hands-on fundraising guidance including introductions to VCs and angel investors.