Off to a flying start: who should you hire to raise a €10M+ Series A?

Hi there, it’s Maddy (again!). As a Partner at Erevena — a London-based Executive Search firm — I spend a lot of my time talking to Founders of Series A and Series B (and beyond) businesses about how they should structure their leadership teams. For example, when should they bring in their first VP Marketing hire, what kind of profiles of people should they be hiring as leaders, and how should they structure seniority levels. These are just some of the questions that come up on a day-to-day basis.

To help find some answers to these questions, I started looking through LinkedIn to gather data and had a few conversations with the team at Point Nine to get their thoughts.

Some time ago I published “The Unicorn Trajectory”. My hope was that the report would help founders make better hiring decisions post-Series A. My hope with this ‘Off to a flying start’ post is that these findings will increase founders’ chances to raise what the folks at Point Nine call a ‘Tier 1 Series A’(a.k.a. a €10M+ Series A led by some of the best later-stage funds in the world).

Within each of these companies, I found the title, function, years of experience, start date and leaving date of every person they hired during the first 18 months of their journey. This equates to 409 people in total, including f.

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