Crelate AI Recruiting Platform · Private equity and venture
A leadership bench for every company in the portfolio.
Crelate is the AI Recruiting Platform that turns the relationships and data you already own into your next hire. Fund talent teams use it to pipeline operating partners and portfolio-company executives, run each search confidentially, and keep the network the fund builds across every deal.
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Value creation depends on leadership arriving early, not after the gap appears.
Before the need
Pipeline the bench
Hold pre-qualified operators by function and sector, so a CFO gap at a portfolio company starts with names rather than a kickoff call.
During the search
Run each one confidentially
A search at one company should not be visible across the portfolio. Access is granted per person and per search, and each company sees only its own.
After the placement
Keep the relationship
Operators you meet on one deal are candidates, references, and sources on the next. The history stays with the fund.
Manage the portfolio like a client list, because it behaves like one.
Each portfolio company gets its own searches, stakeholders, and reporting, and the fund keeps a single view across all of them. The structure an executive search firm uses for clients maps directly onto a portfolio.
- Per-company configuration, branding, and stakeholder access
- Confidential searches restricted to the group working them
- Talent pools organized by function, sector, and stage
- Role-change signals on everyone the fund has met
- Reporting per company and across the portfolio
This page covers a newer use case for Crelate. Talk to us about how your fund runs talent and we will show the closest configuration.
Questions from fund talent teams.
What is private equity talent software?
Private equity talent software supports a fund’s talent team as it pipelines operating partners and portfolio-company executives across many companies at once. A team uses Crelate to map leadership markets, keep bench candidates warm, and run confidential searches for each portfolio company.
Can we manage recruiting across multiple portfolio companies?
Yes. Each portfolio company can be managed as its own client with its own searches, stakeholders, and reporting, while the fund keeps one view across the portfolio.
Can a portfolio company see only its own searches?
Yes. The portal grants access per person and per search, so a CEO sees the searches for their company and nothing else.
Can we build a bench before a role opens?
Yes. Talent pools hold pre-qualified leaders by function and sector, and the Insights Agent flags when someone on the bench changes roles or becomes available.
Does this replace our search firms?
It sits alongside them. Funds use Crelate for the searches they run internally and to keep the relationship history an external firm cannot hand back.
Bring two portfolio companies and the roles you know are coming.
Crelate is the AI Recruiting Platform for teams that hunt talent, trusted by 25,000+ recruiting professionals since 2012.