Canda

💥 Canda is in the business of Talent 💥

We are the trusted talent consultancy for fast moving companies that have a high bar for talent. Our mission is to be the most impactful recruitment company on the planet. 

We deploy dedicated & highly skilled talent partners in your business, embedding into your culture but using our IP, tech stack, sourcing & employer branding support teams to deliver on hiring plans.

Often the first "recruitment boots" on the ground, setting up processes, relationships and systems to de-risk recruitment at an important time, but also used to complement existing teams with extra recruiting capacity or capabilities to cover spikes in demand.

Embedded in your team, we help;

> Consulting firms & specialist agencies scale-up & down their Talent Acquisition & workforce
> Technology/impact scale-ups execute mission critical talent work by hiring world class permanent, freelance & fractional team members.
> PE/VC Funds to drive value within portfolio companies by positively impacting their talent strategy & team performance whilst scaling.

Working in-house, we have true specialists, working on every area;

> Tech
> GTM & Sales
> Growth and Marketing
> Product & Design
> Operations

Our focus is to reduce the cost and time it takes to directly attract, hire and onboard the best talent for their mission. Prioritising inclusivity, candidate experience and applying a marketing mindset to reach and engage talent that is not actively looking.

Our customers are rethinking the way we live, work and look after our planet. Working with some of the fastest growing companies in Edtech, B2B SaaS, ClimateTech, and Digital consultancies.

Allplants, Elsewhen, Truelayer, Ecologi, Tails, Vita Mojo, Feast It, TeamTailor, Lick, FitXr, Mytutor, Tenzo, Utilities Warehouse, dxw, Sparkchange and 100's more.

Interested in finding out more? Visit www.canda.io

CEO & Exec Recruiting

Huckletree

What do Huckletree do? 
It's is a place where ambitious minds and problem solvers come together to make things happen. It's your office, your playground, and your muse. On the surface, we're building coworking spaces so you can focus your efforts on your business rather than the chore of office management, but it'd be boring if it were that simple. Beyond the practical, we're making environments where your natural curiosity will inspire creativity and innovation.

What do I do? 
Firstly, fully understand the strategy for growth and how our future talent will help us achieve our vision. Secondly, implement an employer brand strategy & hiring process that organically attracts, engages and selects the most capable people that share a common set of values and way of working.

Talent Advisor (via Canda)

GrowthBuilders

Talent advisor to Growth Builders BDO, PWC and Lloyds accelerator programs. Working with scale-up cohorts across SaaS, Sustainability, Ecom, Fintech & Ed tech. 

GrowthBuilders solves the biggest corporate innovation challenges through scale-up and corporate collaboration. 

We combine our hands on experience of leading corporate innovation teams and working in and with over 500 scale-ups to turn connections into commercial growth for both sides.

Portfolio Talent Advisor

Tech Nation

Supporting Tech Nation’s program managers and portfolio companies to develop world class Talent Acquisition capabilities to ensure hiring was not a bottleneck to growth.

COLLABZ - The In-House Talent Company

Incredibly proud of the team and the work they do every day. People-centric businesses will deliver the highest quality of life gains to workers this decade. We’re at the forefront of enabling companies to deliver on that promise.

Co-Founder

Gattaca

Leveraging my personal experience in CWM (contingent workforce management) solution architecture, I’m responsible for the creation & delivery of Gattaca Group’s IR35 change management programme to ensure compliance with the private sector legislation arriving 6th April 2020. 
The programme includes working closely with Gattaca’s legal team, internal IR35 steering group, insurance providers and preferred accountancy partners to manage the implementation of their internal change and the external go-to market strategy for Gattaca's advisory & IR35 offerings that support the development and execution their clients Off Payroll Reform plans.

Agile workforce (Gig/Freelancer/Contractor/SOW) project director 

Responsible for RPO & MSP offering across EMEA.

Our aim is to provide HR, talent acquisition and procurement leader’s insight, tools and solutions to support the delivery of their strategy.

We focus on talent acquisition and workforce management solutions for Mid-Large (500-5000 emps) organisations with a high demand for STEM skills. 

With a blend of outsourcing and consulting services, we partner with clients operating in technical, candidate competitive sectors to help them attract, engage and retain their talent. 

Your hiring challenges are solved by a community of subject matter experts in research, recruitment marketing, innovative sourcing, talent supply chain management, software systems and client relationship development. 

Our consulting services provide the latest thinking in these practice area’s;
•	EVP, Employment Brand 
•	Diversity and Inclusion 
•	Talent strategy and diagnostics
•	Market research and talent mapping 
•	Talent Technology

TA Director / RPO Leader / - EMEA 

Barclay Meade

Original member of the team which re-launched Barclay Meade in 2010. The professional staffing offering of the Matctech Group. A fantastic five years culminated in a role where I led the overall direction, vision, strategy and culture of a department. 

Key Achievements
♦ MARKETING - Executing launch strategy, on-going brand development & positioning  
♦ LEADERSHIP to a dept. of 360 consultants focusing on technology and engineering sectors
♦ MANAGEMENT of the 2013/2014/2015 financial results
♦ NETWORKING - 80+ SENIOR EXEC placements in the Tech domain

Department Manager - Hiring CRO's/CMO's for Tech businesses 

👋 Hi, I'm Louis. I mostly bang on about start-ups and the importance of scaleable talent solutions!  

We solve for the problem of fluctuating volumes and specialisms within your hiring demand plan. 

TL:DR Doing whatever it takes to build the most impactful Talent company on the planet and help our portfolio of customers win ✌️, measuring success by delivering; 

✅ Customer Impact (Hiring success, agility & ROI)
✅ Candidate Impact (5* talent experiences)
✅ Global Impact (our B-Corp obligations & Donations)

POV: For companies going through significant workforce change (VC/PE investment, Geo Expansion, Growth, transformation) Recruitment agencies are ineffective (expensive, inconsistent & time consuming) and growing your TA team is a risk (lack specialisms and what to do when you’re not hiring) yet bad hiring costs thousands, worries investors and slows progress by 10-30%. 

OUR SOLUTION: We fit around your existing talent infrastructure to help you grow in the most quality driven, capital efficient and low risk way! Bringing you the full benefits of a best in class  in-house recruitment team at a fraction of the cost and turning your talent ecosystem into a strategic asset (moat).

I'm passionate about building genuinely world-class TA capability all over the world for companies who are helping build a sustainable planet, improve society or enable people to live healthier, better lives. 

This has led me to work with a dozen of the UK's most exciting entrepreneurs, high-impact ventures (Edtech, CleanTech, ClimateTech HealthTech, FemTech, MedTech, FinTech, SporTech) and cutting-edge consultancies to help them build exceptional, high performing teams. 

Done some cool stuff, with some clever people. I love it.

UK Tech is making bold strides in health and sustainability this week. Here’s who’s leading the charge 👇

🧠 Tala Thrive is building an online mental health platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided tools. They raised £380k Pre-Seed to expand access to care.

🥗 Get Nourish3d uses AI to create personalised 3D-printed nutrient blends tailored to your health profile. They secured £1.4M Series A Follow On funding.

🧬 Coherence Neuro is pioneering new cancer treatments by linking neuroscience with neurotechnology. They raised £7.6M Seed to bring their MedTech vision forward.

🔌 EO Charging landed £25M Series C to scale its smart EV charging infrastructure for homes, workplaces, and destinations across the UK.

Big things ahead for these innovators. We’ll be watching 👀

Louis Cross 🚀🌏

Co-founder ​> Building the Canda brand globally 🦄 (Talent Solutions for Tech Co’s)

Tech Bytes (Nov 10 - Nov 16)

The UK healthtech scene isn’t slowing down.
Here are the latest startups making moves with smart, scalable solutions 👇 


🩸 Emm is redefining menstrual care with a smart cup that delivers personalised health insights.

💨 1nhaler is transforming drug delivery with a wallet-sized, cardboard-based inhaler.

🧪 PolyModels Hub is building the digital backbone for biopharma, helping teams simulate and optimise how medicines are made.

🧬 InvenireX is pioneering ultra-sensitive nucleic acid detection using next-gen neural networks.

🏥 CIGA Healthcare Ltd continues its growth in rapid diagnostics, supplying OTC and professional tests across the UK and beyond.


That’s a wrap for this week... we’ll be keeping a close eye on how these teams evolve and scale. 👀

Tech Bytes (Nov 24 - Nov 30)

We’ve got our eye on these startups driving health and sustainability forward 👀

🧠 Enteral Access Technologies is enhancing clinical care with tools like DoubleCHEK™ for safer nasogastric tube placement.

🧬 T-Therapeutics Ltd is developing TCR-based therapeutics using its OpTiMus® platform, spun out from the University of Cambridge.

🌱 Limetrack is helping businesses cut food waste and emissions with a smart B2B platform built for compliance and net zero goals. 

More of this, please! 👏

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