Enter the Talent Singularity

Jake and JVV co-scaled Dave Inc. from Seed to IPO and quarterbacked nearly 100 hires. They continue to be great friends and long-term supporters of Dave as investors and advisors.”

Jason Wilk | EY Entrepreneur of the Year

CEO

Dave Inc.

Partnered with Jake and JVV for many years across multiple startups. They recently scaled my founding engineering team from scratch at Additive.ai & are hyper responsive to our needs.”

Dwight Crow

Founder

Additive.ai

I've worked with Dan and JVV previously at Snap. They have recently placed a few high profile executives for Fanatics Live.”

Nick Bell

CEO

Fanatics Live

V3 was critical in hiring our executive team from Seed to Series B, as well as placed our software and go-to-market roles. V3 came on as an investor and we've partnered on many projects in and outside of Fireside.ai. Their network & access to talent, advisors, and VC is unmatched.”

Falon Fatemi | Forbes Under 40 | YPO

Founder, CEO

Fireside Chat

Investors and hands-on talent advisors. They’ve done well on tough Software and ML searches. I’ve given many external references for V3 over the years.”

John Honchariw

Founder & CEO

Companion Professional

Great partners at Headspace. V3 embedded a few team members to partner on 10+ SWE headcount during our hyper-growth phase. JVV and I stay in close contact on all things talent and HR.”

Caroline Escalante

VP of People Operations

Headspace

JVV is the best closer I’ve worked with — and V3 is the only recruiting firm I recommend!”

Sebastian Gil

CEO

Sidechat

I’ve partnered with JVV and V3 for over 7 years while at Index. There my go to talent referral and founders always share good freedback on their experience with the V3 team.”

Damir Becirovic

Partner

Index Ventures

V3 is one of the engineering recruiters in tech, and we've worked with many. They move fast, filter perfectly, and find great candidates. Highly recommend!”

Adam Guild | Thiel Fellow

CEO, Founder

Owner

Hands down the best firm I’ve ever worked with. V3 understands the “bar” better than anyone.”

Bijan Moallemi

Co-Founder CEO

Mosaic

V3 scaled Saturn from 20 to 50 employees — software engineering, product, and executive searches. Jake and JVV are active investors and close friends.”

Dylan Diamond | Theil Fellow | Forbes Under 30

Co-Founder, CEO

Saturn

V3 consistently places high-impact execs for Index Ventures portfolio companies!”

Erik Kriessman

Partner

Index Ventures

I’ve worked with Jake and V3 for many years on high-priority technical searches. They have a seasoned recruiting team, and we’ve built a lot of trust working together.”

Joe Aranda

VP Operations

Eight Sleep

V3 is my go-to for talent. Partnered with JVV when he led talent at Snap and at my most recent two startups, Verishop and Heygen.”

Rong Yan

CTO

HeyGen

JVV always hits his numbers. We hired 1,500 SWEs over 4 years at Snap together. Since then, we've worked on many projects together post Snap.”

Tim Sehn

SVP Software Engineering

Snap

We recently deepened our partnership with V3. JVV and his team are hyper-responsive and deliver fast, especially for AI talent.”

Joshua Rosenberg

CEO

Clara Labs

The gold standard for Silicon Valley recruiting!”

Lauren Ipsen

Talent Partner

Decibel

Long-time friends and invaluable recruiting partners to The GP.”

Dan Portillo

Co-Founder

The General Partnership

V3 has been a great partner to Kleiner’s portfolio companies. I consistently hear positive feedback from founders and execs they place.”

Danny Michell

Director, Technical Talent

Kleiner Perkins

V3 delivered for us quickly after coming off a bad experiences with other firms. Their AI/ML network is strong.”

Mahmoud Felfel

Co-Founder & CEO

Play

V3 placed two directors with us quickly — I’ve referred them to anyone needing exec talent!”

Nick Fajt

CEO & Co-Founder

RecRoom

Best partners for SWE searches in NYC. I’ve worked with V3 across two startups and shared advisory roles with JVV at other companies.”

Nick Rellas

Founder, CEO

Greater Industries

As a close mentor and advisor to V3, I've lead several behavioral science development courses for their team. Their domain knowledge, technical expertise, and client management skills are the best I’ve seen. I refer V3 a lot of business.”

Jason Halbert

VP People

Snap

I've been a client of V3 since 2019 and am a big champion of their business!”

Mikael Cho

Co-Founder/CEO

Unsplash

Partnered with JVV and V3 for many years. They hired our core exec team and high-impact software engineers.”

Maneet Khaira | Forbes Under 30

Founder, CEO

Backbone

I needed top-tier engineers. V3 delivered. We got acquired. 🎤”

Dhruv Sringari

Co-founder & CTO

Smartpass

V3 Ventures has supported every financing round and all things talent at Dray Alliance. We white-labeled their recruiting team for our critical hiring needs.”

Steve Wen | Forbes Under 30

Founder, CEO

Dray Alliance

Referred by a trusted friend, I called JVV in an emergency. Their team filled a critical role in under 24 hours.”

Vikrant Duggal

CEO & Founder

Attendly

V3 takes the time to deeply understand our needs and invests in a true partnership. Best firm, hands down.”

Juliette Somma

Head of Ops

Additive

V3 guided us through offer negotiations and provided a healthy range of in-network talent for us to interview.”

Paul Mestemaker

CTO

Eluve.ai

Love working with V3. They’ve helped Backbone beyond just talent — their immediate network is powerful.”

Sydney Newton

Co-founder, COO

Backbone

Worked with JVV for years. V3 invested in my startup which got acquired by Coinbase. We remain close parnters at Fanatics Live.”

Wisam Dakka

CTO

Fanatics Live

Worked with V3 at both Rockset and Charta Health. I appreciate the seniority of their recruiting team and the quality of talent they bring.”

Scott Morris

Co-founder, CTO

Charta Health

Great partners and talent advisors to Boost and our portfolio companies. We've built a strong web 3 alliance between our firms!”

Brayton William

Partner

Boost VC

Jake and V3 don’t give up on searches. They know early-stage better than anyone!”

Justin Liu

Co-founder & CEO

Charta Health

V3 made a staggering number of high-quality hires for Dave. Long-time friends and advisors.”

Paras Chitrakar

Co-Founder, CTO

Dave Inc.

If your mission depends on talent, this is the team to find the people who’ll change everything.”

Ryan Jaso

Co-Founder & CEO

Super Evil Genius Corp

Been close partners with Jamie and V3 for many years.”

Javier Vidal

Founder & CEO

Moonware

Hands down, the best search firm I’ve worked with.”

Spyri

Founder, CEO

Deal Ops

Investors and key advisors for Aomni during our seed stage.”

David Zhang

Founder, CEO

Aomni

I’ve partnered with V3 for 7 years. They’re long-time advisors, investors, and partners to Emerge. V3 Ventures have participated in every round and continue to support hiring.”

Isaac Castro | MIT's Innovator Under 35 2013

Co-Founder, Co-CEO

Emerge

As a founder and real estate investor, I’ve learned the secrets to scaling talent at my company through V3.”

Pasha Esfandiary

Founder, CEO

Evoke Capital

V3 immediately understood the high-slope profile we needed. They stayed closely involved and helped close great talent! Partnered with V3 over two startups now!”

Sawyer Altman

Founder

Goblins

They bootstrapped my entire team, came on as investors, and have been great talent partners!”

Chris Tiffin

Founder, CEO

Aisle

V3 is my secret recruiting weapon!”

Dick Fickling

Director of Engineering

Dave Inc.

We exclusively partner with V3 and can rely on them to drive high-quality top-of-funnel for Greater.”

Christopher Brauchli

Head of Engineering

Greater Industries

I've partnered wtih this team over 3 startups. The best in the business!”

Gus Holcomb

Head of Engineering

Please.ai

V3 has delivered principal hires for Heygen. I value the seniorty of their team and the access to their immediate network!”

David Steffes

Head of Talent

Heygen

V3 is the best at delegating recruiting so I don’t have to worry at all!”

Maxwell Holmes

Co-founder

Hytopia

The best talent partners out there. They genuinely care about quality and gatekeep against candidates not ready for startup life.”

Bridget Stanton

Co-founder

Aisle

V3 did a stellar job hiring swe's for my startup in Boulder.”

Brent Barkman

Founder, CEO

Kata

We were referred to V3 after a few rough experiences with a few agencies. They hired 5 AI/ML/SWE folks in around 2-3 months. Night and day difference. Highly reccomend!”

Noah Leshan

Chief of Staff

Play

Love working with V3 for AI searches at Clara Labs.”

Carter Wilkinson

Chief Product Officer

Clara Labs

Partnered closely with Jamie over many tough searches in LA. Referred by a trusted friend who used their services.”

Saunon Malekshahi

Founder & CTO

Moonware

JVV has been a close advisor through every fundraise and our biggest hiring needs”

Camilo Isaza

Co-founder & CEO

OptHealth

Partnered with V3 for years on DEI efforts — and led trainings for their team. They genuinely care about underrepresented talent and I’ve seen their impact first-hand.”

Jarvis Sam | Forbes Under 30

Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

Nike

Partnered with V3 for 7 years and know their value and business better than anyone!”

Justin Palmer

Founder

Clara Labs

7 years with JVV and V3. They have hired VR, XR, AR since 2019 & continue to be great advisors and investors. I've probably given at least 40 references calls for them over the years.”

Sly Lee | Forbes Under 30

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Emerge

Jason and the V3 team are the best in the talent business. No one I trust more for a no BS take on how to pursue and win.”

Andrew Rea

CEO

TaxWire

JVV came on as an investor after an event in Malibu. Since then, V3 has been a great advising resource and devivered high quality executive talent for us.”

Chris Collins

VP Product

OptHealth

V3 does a great job of telling our story and getting top talent excited for Eluve.”

Kostas Sgoutas

CFO

Eluve.ai

A trusted partner and advisor to all things talent!”

David Paffenholz

Founder & CEO

PeopleGPT

I was introduced to V3 from our VC connections. I put the gas on their team and they hired few engineers in 2 months. They have a really high quality recruiting team.”

Alex Craciun

Co-Founder & CEO

Prive

I've worked closely with V3 on Sofware, Product and G2M. They really do have a huge network of folks from their past jobs as internal recruiters for growing startups.”

Claudia Laurie | Forbes Under 30

Founder, Co-CEO

Prive

V3 filled our roles in 30 days or less. They have the network and speed to deliver.”

Samir Ghia

Co-Founder & Chief Legal Officer

OptHealth

V3 hired mobile, product, and exec searches for me at Raya and Funcoach.”

Jared Morgenstern

Founder

Funcoach

Only hired A+ talent through V3. Exceptional at software, mobile, and executive search.”

Dan Fruhman

Founder, CEO

Reclip

V3 placed a data execs for RSI in 2 months!”

Brian Sapp

Chief Marketing Officer

Rush Street Interactive

V3 handled a few tough searches for us when we were an early startup. The partners really care about finding high quality and customizing to Sapients needs.”

Sean Ramsey

Co-Founder

Sapient Bioanalytics

We work wtih V3 on more than just talent, they run our our talent operations and have helped us during the fundraising process as well.”

Joel Fruhman

Founder

Reclip

V3 has been our embedded recruiting team for the past 3 years. JVV and I handled every software engineering offer together.”

Max Baron | Forbes Under 30

Co-Founder | Forbes Under 30

Saturn

Longtime partners at Quibi and Twingate. V3 is my go to talent resource!”

Fe Warner

VP, People

Twingate

Partnerd with JVV and V3 for many years!”

Kevin Seng

VPE

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