MARCO by Matchbox
The hiring intelligence company
We connect startups with a handpicked network of specialist recruiters and the intelligence to hire critical roles, faster.
Intelligence that compounds with your team.
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Handpicked, never broadcast
A small group of specialists, chosen for your role.
Your role is never blasted to a marketplace. Marco reads the brief and selects a handful of recruiters who genuinely place this hire — then Matchbox can widen it only when someone has a candidate worth your time.
- Selected on specialism, market and the companies they've actually worked with.
- Every recruiter stays accountable for who they put forward.
- You always see who is representing each candidate.
Amara Osei · Northbeam Talent
Placed 4 AEs into seed-stage security teams
Tom Whitfield · Ridgeline Search
Currently searching two adjacent AE roles
Lena Fischer · Kestrel Partners
Worked with Canva, Linktree, Employment Hero
Jai Mehta · Salt & Steel
Deep bench of $0–5M ARR builders
A hiring loop that keeps running after you close the tab.
01 — Add one role
Share the brief once.
Marco understands the role, company, team and what a strong candidate needs to have done before.
Startup · New role
Role
Enterprise Account Executive
Location
Sydney · Hybrid
Fee
Agreed with you before the role opens
What good looks like
Built outbound from scratch at seed. Comfortable selling to security buyers.
No endless queue. A controlled shortlist, each with clear evidence and a recruiter accountable for the introduction.
Privacy first
Nobody is exposed without permission.
Marco never contacts candidates. Recruiters decide what is shared, when, and with whom — and keep the relationship either way.
Candidates stay protected
Names and identifying detail are only revealed when their recruiter chooses to reveal them.
Recruiters keep attribution
The introducing recruiter is credited and paid when a placement happens.
Startups see the reasoning
Every profile arrives with the evidence behind it and who is representing them.
No open marketplace
Roles, briefs and call notes stay with the recruiters actively working them.
Every pass makes the next match better.
Marco doesn't just filter. It records why you said no, re-weights the brief and re-ranks the network before you look again.
Stage experience
Weighted up — seed-stage builders
Buyer type
Added — sells to security buyers
Seniority
Held steady
Late-stage-only backgrounds
Weighted down
Hiring context, not a score. Marco explains what changed after every decision.
Built for hiring that can't wait.
CursorSolution Engineer hired in 9 days.
— Connor Solimano, Cursor
6clicksA standout candidate surfaced in roughly one day.
— Alok Agarwal, Systems Engineering
Tell Marco who you need.
Review a small evidence-backed shortlist and request an introduction.
Start a searchShare exceptional candidates.
Control where they appear and keep attribution when a placement happens.
Join the network