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Expert Tech Recruiters, for early stage startups, within the Americas.

See how our approach can drive your startup's success.

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Specialized in early-stage engineering

We focus solely on securing talent for startups from Seed to Series B (and profitable bootstrapped companies)

Diverse engineering roles

We specialize in recruiting for all engineering roles, including leadership positions such as CTO, Head of Engineering, Principal, Staff, Tech Lead, and Sr ICs.

Extensive engineering network

Tap into our extensive network, featuring experienced engineers from a wide range of industries. Our domain-agnostic expertise allows us to source top-tier talent across various fields, ensuring we find the best candidates regardless of your startup's focus.

Focus on quality with our boutique approach

We manage a limited number of searches at a time, focusing intensely on delivering high-quality results and personalized service.

Personalized, hands-on recruitment guidance

From defining roles to making offers, we provide end-to-end advisory throughout the hiring process. We conduct a detailed Kick-off Call to understand your company and role in depth, and create custom client dashboards, data reports, candidate dossiers, and scorecards.

Speed up your hiring with our efficient process

Our contained recruitment model delivers results quickly, often completing searches in less than six weeks.

Leverage our deep industry insights

With years of experience in building companies and engineering teams, we provide valuable market insights and strategic hiring advice.

End mismatched hires

Our candidates are meticulously vetted for both skills and cultural fit, ensuring they contribute effectively right from the start.

"Ingenium has been a true partner to us as we've scaled our engineering team."

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Connor Watumull
CEO of Miter

"Ingenium worked with us to rapidly learn our technical and culture bar for engineers, find great candidates, and educate us on how to attract, close and retain the talent we were looking for in Latin America. Working with Ingenium shortened our learning curve and let us ramp hiring in LATAM at least six months faster than we would if we'd gone it alone."

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Robert MacCloy
Co-founder & CTO of Scrunch

"Working with Ingenium is a dream; they are responsive, technical, and understand the unique challenges of recruiting for startups. They can quickly adapt to changing markets and talent needs, and have been a real asset to our company."

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Ted Nyman
CEO of Cased

"Through them we were able to hire incredible folks, they all index really highly both on technical skills and culture fit, which is important for any team but especially for a growing startup."

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Ryan Johnson
CEO of Float Health

"Ingenium Search quickly understood our company culture and what we needed in a leader, becoming our partners, more than recruiters. They helped us find the perfect match and made the whole process feel seamless and enjoyable."

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Maxx Burman
Co-Founder of KitBash3D

"Not to flatter you or anything but I’ve worked with a lot of recruiters and you’re definitely one of the top, amazing sourcing and engaging with candidates."

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Ozzie Osman
Co-Founder of Monarch Money

"Alfonso and Dani are sharp and trusted talent partners for us at Hyperline. They make the effort to really understand our requirements and then put in the time and work required to find the right candidates."

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Abhinav Vora
Co-Founder of Hyperline

"We have partnered with Ingenium with a few of searches, and they have helped us identify great talent. Their approach is very professional, and they have taken the time to build relationships rather than a transactional approach."

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Amit Sasturkar
CTO & Co-Founder of BoostUp.ai

"Ingenium hit the ground running and quickly sourced hard-to-reach candidates. Not only that, they provided thoughtful, strategic guidance on how to keep candidates engaged in the process and ultimately make a compelling offer. I'd highly recommend them to any fast-growing startup looking for senior engineering talent, especially if you're looking for a strategic partner and not just a transactional relationship."

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Michael Stapleton
CEO & Co-Founder of Leopard

"We have been working with Ingenium from early on in our company's history, and have trusted the team with some of the most important, critical hires we have ever made. What I specifically appreciate about Alfonso and Dani, is how deeply they understand what's important to us in the roles we're looking to fill, how open and transparent they are about the process and the candidates, and receptive to feedback. I know I can always trust Alfonso and Dani to give us advice and to bring us the best candidates."

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Kirill Gertman
CEO of Conduit

"We recently completed 3 technical searches with Ingenium. Not only did give us access to top tier talent, but they were also willing to conform their processes to fit with our own internal recruiting procedures. Their team were professionals from beginning to end and put everyone involved in the process at ease. I think this helped us attract and close great candidates."

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Sam Parker
COO of Swoogo

"Thanks to Ingenium, we scaled our engineering team with incredible speed and precision. They truly understand what startups need to grow."

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Fernando Martin
VP of Engineering of Laurel

"Ingenium helped us build a world-class engineering team with top talent from across the Americas. Their process was seamless, and our team is much stronger now after working with them."

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Henry Bradlow
Co-Founder and CTO of Adaptive

"Ingenium is our go to recruitment partner for all things engineering related. They are very communicative, provide high quality candidates and are great fit for any early stage startups looking to hire any technical roles"

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Richard Hong
Co-Founder of OpenBorder

• Case Studies

Customer Stories

How early-stage startups partner with Ingenium to build senior engineering teams across the Americas.

How Scrunch Built a World-Class Engineering Team Across the Americas

When Scrunch set out to build their engineering team, they weren’t just hiring, they were laying the technical foundation for a company moving from Seed to Series A. Led by experienced founders and building something genuinely innovative, they had crystal-clear vision, strong technical leadership, and the kind of energy senior engineers want to bet on.

In under a year, we partnered with Scrunch to build a high-performing, senior-level engineering team across the US and Latin America, making 11 senior and staff hires that now shape their velocity, culture, and technical direction.

The Starting Line: New Team, New Markets, Big Ambitions

Scrunch’s Co-Founder & CTO, Rob MacCloy, was the driving force behind the hiring effort. From day one, he was transparent and direct, deeply knowledgeable, and easy to collaborate with.Scrunch was starting almost from scratch and because they’re fully remote, they had an opportunity a lot of startups don’t take advantage of early on - hiring across the entire Americas, not just the U.S.But this was Scrunch’s first time hiring in LATAM and that comes with its own nuances: evaluating backgrounds, navigating salary bands that vary dramatically by seniority, and understanding which variables actually signal a strong candidate.That’s where we came in.

"Working with any firm for the first time and hiring a team in a new location for the first time can both feel very risky. Ingenium worked with us to rapidly learn our technical and culture bar for engineers, find great candidates, and educate us on how to attract, close and retain the talent we were looking for in Latin America." - Rob
 

Our Approach: Build the Engine, Then Scale It

Ingenium specializes in technical hiring across the Americas for early-stage startups. The messy, fast, “we need great people yesterday” stage. With Scrunch, our approach was built around three pillars:
 

The Results: 11 Senior & Staff Hires, On Time, On Target

In less than 12 months, we hired:
 

Scrunch didn’t just build an engineering team. They built the right engineering team for where they were headed.

Why It Worked

Every successful early-stage hiring partnership comes down to alignment, and this one clicked because:
 

Working together, we built a hiring engine that delivered predictable, high-quality results month after month.

"Working with Ingenium shortened our learning curve and let us ramp hiring in LATAM at least six months faster than we would if we'd gone it alone." - Rob

Looking Ahead

Scrunch now has a strong engineering backbone across the Americas with senior talent that can execute, lead, and scale. They’ve validated LATAM as a core hiring region, built a repeatable process, and established hiring standards that will serve them as they continue to grow. Their transition from Seed to Series A, combined with expansion in revenue and client base, required a technical foundation built for scale. Together, we’ve established a team that can do exactly that.We’re proud of what we built together and even more excited about what Scrunch is building next.

Co-Founder $ CEO

Alfonso Tiscareno

With over 16 years of experience in the tech recruitment industry, Alfonso stands at the forefront of connecting groundbreaking venture capital-backed startups with world-class engineering talent. Based in San Francisco, California, Alfonso has carved a niche in the recruitment world, specializing in engineering roles for early and growth-stage startups from Founding Engineers, Staff/Principal Engineers, and Engineering Leadership.Before founding Ingenium, Alfonso demonstrated a proven track record of success, spearheading the growth of technical recruitment divisions from scratch and leading teams to achieve remarkable global success. From the bustling streets of Sydney, Australia, to the innovative hub of California, Alfonso has been instrumental in the development and strategy of leading recruitment firms, making a lasting impact with the people that he partners with.The inception of Ingenium in April 2023 marked a significant milestone in Alfonso's career. It encapsulated a deep-rooted passion for fostering genuine partnerships within the startup ecosystem. Alfonso has built Engineering teams for portfolio companies of top-tier venture capital firms such as Gradient Ventures, Canva Ventures, Bessamear Ventures, Audacius Capital, Mayfield, Accel, Norwest Ventures Partners, including companies like Calm, Medium, Scale AI, Nines, Houseparty, and Allbirds, to name a few.Alfonso's journey is not just about professional achievements but reflects a profound love for family, tech, sports, music, and travel. Through Ingenium, Alfonso continues to drive the future of Tech recruitment, one successful placement at a time, building true partnerships that foster growth, innovation, and success for startups and talent alike.

Co-Founder & COO

Dani Abadi

Dani is a serial entrepreneur who has been building tech teams for over 15 years. Born and raised in Argentina and currently living in Uruguay, Dani is passionate about startups and innovation.As the former Co-founder and CEO of Educabilia, an EdTech marketplace that was venture-backed and acquired in 2015, Dani understands founders' challenges firsthand. He knows that the key to building a successful startup is hiring top talent.His approach to attract talent is to focus on identifying candidates who are excited to join the journey and committed to the long term. Recruitment is not just about matching keywords but about finding people who have the required skills but also fit the company's culture and product vision.With this mindset, Dani has helped early-stage startup founders in the US attract and hire outstanding developers and engineering leaders from competitive markets, including the US, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay and Colombia. He has successfully placed candidates in key roles such as CTO, Head of Engineering, Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Senior Individual Contributors for startups like Eight Sleep, Monarch Money, Copy.ai and others.Dani is also a psychology graduate (with honors) and loves connecting with people worldwide to help them achieve their goals faster.

Director

Emily Howard

Based in the Pacific Northwest, Emily Howard joins Ingenium Search with over a decade of experience in technical recruiting. She has a proven track record of sourcing top talent for roles across engineering, product, design, and security, and brings a uniquely human, values-driven touch to every client engagement.Before taking on her role at Ingenium, Emily served as a Talent Principal at Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), where she worked directly with portfolio companies to build their core technical teams. Prior to that, she was a Principal Consultant at Parker Remick, where she spent 10 years placing top-tier talent in competitive tech markets.Her favorite part of recruiting is integrating thoughtful processes and great people to fill roles seamlessly and quickly.A voracious reader, Emily finishes an average of 100+ books per year. The key, she will tell you, is listening to audiobooks whenever she can: riding her bike, walking her dog Cashew, and throwing pots in her pottery studio.

Principal

Robert Perkins

Robert brings more than six years of recruiting experience, partnering with technology-driven companies to place senior leaders and other high-impact hires. He specializes in recruiting engineering, product, and security executives and has a proven track record of helping growth-stage organizations attract the talent required to scale.Before joining Ingenium, Robert worked in the Product, Data, and Technology practice at True Search, supporting high-growth clients on critical executive leadership searches. He later joined Angi’s corporate recruiting team, where he helped strengthen technical and operational teams during a period of significant growth and organizational transformation.Robert is passionate about building genuine relationships with both clients and candidates, combining a thoughtful, consultative approach with a fast-moving, thorough search process.He is based in the Philadelphia suburbs, and outside of work enjoys family time with his wife and daughter, golfing, and cooking.

Technical recruiter

Memi Lubertino

Memi is one of the Technical Sourcers on our team. She graduated with honors in Business Administration from the University of Buenos Aires. With a knack for building relationships and excellent communication skills, she developed a keen interest in the field of talent acquisition.Memi has previously worked for a recruiting software startup in the US, giving her a deep understanding of what clients are looking for when searching for new talent. Born and raised in Argentina, she has a passion for art, traveling, and meeting new people.Dedicated and detail-oriented, Memi is committed to finding and connecting top talent with exciting opportunities in the tech industry.

Senior Technical recruiter

Maria Campos

Maria is a dynamic recruiter based in Bogotá, with 5 years of varied experience in the recruitment field.
She has experience in agencies, has worked hand-in-hand with innovative startups, and partnered with leading organizations like Uber and ONE through an embedded RPO model. This diverse background has given her valuable insights into the recruitment world, highlighting the importance of building meaningful relationships.Maria's passion lies in creating lasting connections, advocating for candidates, and matching remarkable talent with incredible opportunities. With a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, she continually enhances her ability to understand and connect with people.

Senior Technical recruiter

Daniela Guevara

Daniela is a results-driven Senior Technical Recruiter with over seven years of experience scaling engineering teams for startups and connecting exceptional talent with leading organizations worldwide. With a background in psychology and business, she excels at understanding the unique needs of both clients and candidates, enabling her to foster meaningful, lasting placements.Born and raised in Venezuela, Daniela's global perspective has been shaped by her experiences living in Wales and Spain. This international outlook, combined with her passion for travel, fitness, and caring for her pets, enriches her ability to build genuine connections with people from diverse backgrounds.At Ingenium, Daniela is dedicated to matching top engineering talent with impactful opportunities, helping startups grow and thrive by building world-class teams. Her commitment to personalized, thoughtful recruiting ensures both candidates and companies find the perfect fit for long-term success.

Research and Operations Lead

Krista Bienia

With 7 years of experience in technical recruiting, Krista specializes in optimizing workflows and fostering collaboration to identify, attract and retain top engineering talent and build high performance teams. Krista has experience in nearly all phases of recruiting, from research to client services, giving her insight into the full recruitment life cycle.Committed to continuous improvement, Krista cares deeply about leveraging research to inform best practices and scalable solutions, ensuring clients experience a seamless, impactful process.Born, raised, and based in Alaska, she loves getting outside in any kind of weather.