Technical Team Expansion

AlleyCorp Nord · Venture Capital · Scaleup

Founded in 2020, AlleyCorp Nord is part of AlleyCorp, a $2B Venture Capital firm and Venture Studio headquartered in New York City. They've helped some big names like MongoDB, Meetup, Business Insider, Gilt Group, Nomad Health and Zola. The companies AlleyCorp has founded have raised over $1 billion in venture funding. AlleyCore decided to expanded into Montreal in 2020 and build out a services are to help their portfolio companies to take advantage of the pool of Canadian technical talent. Their primary goal is to work with early-stage startups by providing the funding and technical resources they need to get the first iterations of their products and platform off the ground. AlleyCorp Nord, their technical services arm based in Canada, works with 6-7 different portfolio companies at any given time and is constantly adding new ones to its portfolio. They span many different industries including healthcare, Fintech, AI and Machine Learning.

Challenge

Rapidly scale technical team while maintaining quality across multiple portfolio startups

Solution

Given the volume and difficulty of requirements combined with the speed at which AlleyCorp wanted to move they opted for a Hybrid On-Demand + Contingency model. GuruLink's main objective was to identify top-level talent to work for the early-stage startups under the ACN umbrella. GuruLink's RPO solution provided ACN with 20-40+ hours of flexible, on-demand, full-cycle recruitment services to engage candidates. GuruLink sourced and recruited roles primarily for polyglot developers at all levels, Engineering Managers, DevOps and Product Designers. We also cleaned up and actioned over 700 candidate profiles, submitted 133 scorecards used to provide feedback post-interview and scheduled 195 interviews for us or ACNs team members to complete. GuruLink created a way for ACN's team to organize and find candidates more easily using a system of tags and pools in Greenhouse. This created efficiencies in the sourcing process for candidates they already knew they liked.

Results