Heart Mind Talent

Heart Mind Talent is a specialist recruitment agency established in 2023, focused on building foundational tech and AI teams for startups and scale-ups. The company provides embedded recruitment services, headhunting for senior technical roles, and recruitment operations support. Heart Mind Talent takes full ownership of the hiring process, embedding within client companies to understand their stack, culture, and specific talent requirements before sourcing and closing candidates. The agency operates three core service lines: embedded recruitment (a full hiring engine operating under the client's brand), headhunting for senior positions such as founding engineers and VPs, and recruitment operations infrastructure including compensation benchmarking and interview design.

Heart Mind Talent specialises in recruiting for technology and artificial intelligence sectors, with particular expertise in frontier AI, deep-tech, and infrastructure roles. The agency has demonstrated success scaling engineering teams, with the founder having previously scaled over 250 engineers at WhatsApp. The team comprises senior recruiters with an average of 15 years' experience, many of whom have built and scaled teams within leading tech companies including Google, DeepMind, and Meta. The company has successfully supported portfolio companies through rapid scaling, with notable exits including a stealth-to-acquisition journey completed in nine months.

Heart Mind Talent operates across three primary regions: Europe (with the deepest network spanning London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Zurich, Lisbon, and Copenhagen), the United States (covering New York, San Francisco, and Boston), and the Middle East (including Tel Aviv and the wider Israeli tech ecosystem). The agency's European hub serves as its primary base, offering access to frontier talent at more competitive price points than North American or Israeli equivalents. Heart Mind Talent is trusted by leading venture capital firms including Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and Balderton, who regularly refer portfolio companies requiring rapid, senior hiring support.