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title: "Funded.club | Fixed-Fee Startup Recruiting: First Candidates in 7 Days"
description: "Fixed-fee recruiting for funded startups: a low fee agreed upfront, averaging 6 to 9% of salary. First candidates in 7 days. 500+ startups helped."
image: https://funded.club/hubfs/og_image_funded.png
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- [Digital Science](https://funded.club/case-studies/digital-science)
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- [Contact us](https://funded.club/contact-us)
[Book a call](https://funded.club/contact-us)
- Engagement options:
- [Hiring solutions](https://funded.club)
- [Pay-as-you-go](https://funded.club/pricing)
- Membership plan
# Startup Recruitment That Delivers.
We headhunt the **passive** candidates your job ads and AI tools can't reach: AEs, CSMs, RevOps, Product & Engineering leads and GTM leadership.
**First candidates in 7 days. Fixed fees from $4,900 per hire, averaging 6-9% of salary.** [See pricing](https://funded.club/pricing)
[Get a fixed-fee quote](https://funded.club#quote)
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## We Get Results
#### 500+
Startup customers
#### 100%
Success rate
#### 7
Days to first candidates
#### 73%
Reduced hiring costs
## Testimonials
"Funded.club was absolutely an integral piece of our process to find-test-hire people for our company lately. This not only saved us quite literally multiple months of work in pre-screenings, but also efficient in finding candidates that we basically removed the need for a recruitment team altogether. this allowed us to focus resources on more critical things that every company should be doing, like building the product!"
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## Jiří Třečák
### CEO, SUPERNOVA (YC W19)
"Funded.club has been instrumental in streamlining our recruitment process. Their expert team has saved us countless hours and their recruiters do a fantastic job at filtering out candidates and bringing us the best talent. We highly recommend partnering with Funded.club."
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## Amanda Tegtmeyer
### President, Axle Eight
"As an early stage, growing business, we need an executive recruiting partner that is both affordable and professional. The team at Funded.club was highly responsive and delivered on their promise of great candidates. I have now utilized them twice and plan on going back as we continue to staff up!"
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## Steve Wasik
### CEO, VKTRY Gear
"We were struggling to find the right person for our senior dev role and so got in touch with Funded.Club. They quickly found candidates that fitted with our requirements and culture and we were able to fill the position. Thanks to Emma for your effort which saved us lots of time and cost."
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## Tony Stanley
### PEOPLE AND OPERATIONS MANAGERMSUPPLY, NEW ZEALAND
"At Tesseract.io we are constantly looking for talents to join our ever-growing team. The Funded.Club team has helped tremendously in our hiring process. In addition to the responsiveness, they provide weekly summaries throughout the hiring progress. Candidates presented were pre-screened and of good quality. Candidates start streaming in very quickly after our kick-off meeting, usually within the same week. They've helped us with multiple technical positions that we previously struggled to fill. We will definitely use them for future hires. "
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## Colin Lee
### CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, TESSERACT.IO, SINGAPORE
"We worked with Bulent and Funded.club to successfully recruit a Senior Software Engineer. Bulent advised us on the brief, provided valuable insights on salary ranges and then worked diligently to provide us with an excellent shortlist of candidates. Bulent is a great communicator and provided straightforward advice which helped us rapidly conclude our search confident we had the best candidate in the market for our brief."
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## Julian Thorne
### CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, Sub(x)
"Working with Funded.club has been a wonderful experience. The staff is highly experienced, saved us tons of time and are results driven. All of it is a fraction of traditional recruitment agency costs. Highly recommended for fast-growing startups and scale-ups!"
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## Johannnes Koeppel
### CO-FOUNDER & CEO, WETRAVEL
"We keep coming back to Funded.club over and over again, they are affordable yet efficient and have adjusted to our hiring needs regularly!"
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## Andre Lorenceau
### CEO & Founder, Divigas
"Kapil and Funded.club were amazing at finding us top talent to hire into key positions with speed and accuracy - without the bill of a traditional headhunter. Highly recommended to startups and scale-ups looking to make their next key hire."
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## Tulika Raj
### Co-Founder & CEO, SunGreenH2
I would like to recommend Ray Gibson and Funded.club for their cost-effective and tailored programs for startups. Their model is innovative, worth trying out.
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## Mauro Gandolfo
### CEO at 3Brain
You need to ask Ray Gibson at Funded.club for the best service in finding the best A players for any startup
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## DeReK WaTSoN
### Founder & CEO, Fusion 42
Definitely Funded.club! If you want to find the best candidates in the market, stop looking for them and ask them to bring you, your future unicorns on a golden plate :) !
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## Guillaume Lorquet
### Global Operations Director, Idalko
## \>500 Happy Customers, Worldwide
\+ many more across North America, Europe, and APAC
## How It Works
1. 
2. **Target & scorecard:** we align on the must-haves (skills, outcomes, salary range) during a kick-off call with our expert team.
1. 
2. **AI + humans:** we use a modern AI stack to source a vast range of candidates + senior headhunters to the top 5% of passive talent who never apply to job ads.
1. 
2. **Structured interviews:** live, standardized interviews by our expert team to screen for **startup DNA** and culture fit. Shortlisted for you within 14 days.
# **Tell us your open role(s)**
**We'll reply the same working day with a fixed fee and a timeline to shortlisted candidates.**
No call needed. Ray Gibson replies personally (no AI or automated replies!)
Fixed fee agreed upfront, averaging 6 to 9% of salary.
First screened candidates in 7 days.
We've helped 500+ startups from Seed to Series D across North America, Europe and APAC.
## Better Ways to Hire Your A-players
[Funded.club](https://funded.club/) offers fixed-fee startup recruiting: a low fee agreed upfront, averaging 6 to 9% of salary, from $4,900 to $21,900 per hire instead of the 20 to 25% typical of contingency recruiters. First candidates in 7 days, with a 100% fill rate across 500+ startups since 2019.
- Pay per job/search with [low fixed fees](https://funded.club/pricing) averaging just 6-9% of annual salary
- Hire a startup-focused, [permanent recruiter](https://funded.club/recruiter-staffing-for-startup)**,** pre-screened by Funded.club
- Hire a [fractional recruiter](https://funded.club/recruiter-staffing-for-startup) using our full AI tech stack + headhunting skills on a month-to-month basis
## Free Growth Planner:
[Calculate your upcoming salary and hiring costs](https://funded.club/growth-planner)
## Job titles we fill every day:
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## Why startups pick Funded.club
Fixed hiring fees, no surprises: **Pay-as-you-go** per search or choose a monthly **Membership** for ongoing roles
AI + humans: Tools to find more passive candidates, headhunters to convert the **top 5%**
Startup-ready talent: GTM, Product & Engineering, and Leadership with **startup DNA** and culture fit.
**Global reach**, senior focus: Niche and hard-to-fill roles are our sweet spot.
We help you build and protect your **employer brand**
We help you understand your **ROI** with weekly updates and stats
Our customers become **GDPR-compliant** immediately while using our tools (don't underestimate this!)
Join a **club** of founders with growing resources, advice and a network of valuable contacts
## Our global, diverse team and customer base
We always assign team members to customer projects in their own local markets to speed up the hiring process.
## Prefer to talk directly?
Book a free 15-minute call. We'll map your hiring plan, budget, and timeline — no commitment.
[Book a call](https://meetings.hubspot.com/ray127)
## "It's all about the team..."
You'll hear this from investors often, but founders don't get much help or guidance in hiring or building a world class team. It's not taught in college :) but now, suddenly, you need to add talent to your vision.
You've placed ads on job boards - only to receive many off-target applications;
You've "had a go" with some AI and recruiting tools - but not landed the right talent yet;
You've also tried hiring through an agency - and had to hide the bill from your investors :)
**You feel your time and your hard-won money should be better spent... and you're right!**
Let's get you back to growing your business!"
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## Ray Gibson, CEO & Founder
[Get in touch](https://funded.club/contact-us)
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## Contact Us
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