MERRAINE GROWTH
Hire a 10X Team at the Speed Your Growth Demands
Search firms fill a role and leave. We embed in your company and craft your team.
60 Days
Average time-to-fill
98%
12-month retention
1600+
Placements
FOUNDERS BUILDING WITH FOUNDERS
Backed by Operators Who've Actually Done This
Merraine Growth is owned and led by Kass and Mike Lazerow, who built Buddy Media and sold it to Salesforce for $745 million. They've backed 100+ startups, including Scopely and Liquid Death, with over $10 billion in realized gains. Work with us and you get their playbook: the same hiring strategies that built their companies, now building yours.
$745M
Buddy Media exit to Salesforce
100+
Startups invested in & advised
$10B+
In realized gains
Ready to build your team like they built theirs?
INDUSTRIES WE SERVE
Deep Roots in the Sectors Driving Growth
Fintech & Infrastructure
Digital Health & Health Tech
AI & Machine Learning
SaaS & Enterprise Software
Consumer Tech & Marketplaces
Climate Tech & Sustainability
THE EMBEDDED TALENT MODEL
We Don't Hand Off a Candidate. We Embed In Your Process.
Traditional executive search hands you a candidate and disappears until the next fee. Embedded talent means a Merraine team sits inside your hiring process as an extension of your own: running requisitions in parallel, owning your pipeline end to end, and staying accountable to your roadmap, not a single search.
It's the model fast-growing, venture-backed companies use to hire faster without standing up an internal recruiting org from scratch, combining the discipline of a nationally ranked search firm with the speed and focus a startup actually needs.
NOT JUST THE C-SUITE
Full-Spectrum Search, From First Hire to the Boardroom
Most search firms stop at the executive layer. We don't. Merraine Growth staffs the roles that actually determine whether a startup scales: founding engineers, first sales hires, VPs, and functional directors, alongside C-suite and board-level placements.
FUNCTIONS WE COVER
G&A: Finance, Ops, People
Go-to-Market: Sales, Marketing, CS
Executive & Board
Product & Engineering
Data & Analytics
Legal & Compliance
BUILT FOR STARTUPS AND SCALE-UPS
Wherever You Are, We Meet You There
We work with pre-seed through growth-stage companies, and the VCs and PE sponsors behind them. Whether it's your first hire or your fiftieth, the search is built around where you are and where you're headed.
Pre-Seed & Seed
Series A to C
Growth & Late-Stage
PE-Backed Portfolio Companies
Need an interim exec, CFO, COO, or otherwise?
No problem. We can make that happen. Fast.
WHY GROWTH-STAGE COMPANIES CHOOSE MERRAINE
The Merraine Growth Advantage
Embedded, Not Transactional
Full-Org Coverage
National Firm Infrastructure
Operator-Backed
HOW IT WORKS
A Process Built for Speed
1
Discovery
We learn your roadmap, org design, and hiring gaps, not just a single job description.
2
Embed
A dedicated search team plugs into your hiring process end to end.
3
Pipeline
Parallel searches across roles, with direct visibility into candidates for your team.
4
Close
Offer strategy, negotiation support, and a smooth handoff into onboarding.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Common Questions About Merraine Growth
Do you offer interim or fractional leadership placements?
Yes. Beyond full-time search, we can move quickly on interim needs, like a fractional CFO, while a permanent search is underway.
How long does a typical search take?
Timelines vary by role and stage. Because we run searches in parallel rather than one at a time, most searches move faster than traditional retained search.
What stages of companies does Merraine Growth work with?
Merraine Growth works with companies from pre-seed and seed through Series A, B, and C, growth and late-stage companies, and private-equity-backed portfolio companies.
Does Merraine Growth only place executives?
No. Merraine Growth covers full-cycle hiring across Product and Engineering, Go-to-Market, Data and Analytics, Legal and Compliance, and G&A functions, in addition to executive and board-level search.
What industries does Merraine Growth serve?
Merraine Growth serves AI and machine learning, SaaS and enterprise software, consumer tech and marketplaces, fintech and infrastructure, and digital health and health tech companies.
READY WHEN YOU ARE
Every Hire Is Traction. Let's Build Your Team.
Tell us what you're hiring for, and a Growth Partner will follow up within 24 hours.
For operators who want in
Kass and Mike keep a short list of people they'd hire themselves. If that's you, tell us what you're great at, we'll call when the right company needs it.
For founders and VCs
Most search firms show up once you need a VP. We're there before that, founding engineers, first sales hires, all the way to your next CEO, under one partner and one roadmap.
© 2026 Merraine Group. All rights reserved.