Kain Colasanto

Kain Colasanto is a recruiting agency that positions itself as the trusted recruiting partner for venture funded and private equity backed companies growing their go to market, AI and technical teams. Every search starts inside the firm's own network of clients and candidates, built over the past 20 years, and the company says that in that time it has worked with over 200 clients and placed more than 1200 executives across a wide range of roles. It leans on professional and personal connections to reach passive candidates who, in its words, trust its reputation for working with good clients. Kain Colasanto works on a contingent basis, so it is not paid until a placement is made, and it describes its own approach as career matchmaking rather than filling a requisition: it will not push roles at candidates that do not make sense for them, and will not present candidates who are not a strong fit.

The company recruits for high growth businesses backed by venture capital and private equity, and its named focus areas are go to market teams, artificial intelligence and technical hiring. Sales leadership is a visible strength, with one client stating that Kain Colasanto helped him build three successful sales forces across three different companies over two decades. The firm places executives across a wide range of roles and works with the same methodical process it uses for clients when hiring into its own team. Diversity, equity and inclusion sit at the forefront of every search, and the company runs an aggressive outreach programme combining industry tools with its own database to produce a vetted pipeline quickly.

Kain Colasanto operates from two offices, one serving the New York Metro area from 100 Reserve Road in Danbury, Connecticut, and one serving the SF Bay Area from 1 Belvedere Place in Mill Valley, California, with recruiters also based in Atlanta. John Colasanto and Syd Kain are Managing Partners, based in the SF Bay Area and New York Metro respectively, alongside Partner Kathryn Krischer and a team of executive recruiters. Clients can hand over the entire recruiting process or run it alongside their internal people operations team, and the firm says its aim is to do the heavy lifting so clients can stay focused on running a growing business.