Our belief

Talent isn’t headcount.
It’s capital.

Every hire spends something you can’t get back.

A bad investment loses money. A bad hire changes the company that forms around it - the people they attract, the standard they set, the roles created to work around them.

That’s why talent decisions deserve the same rigour as any other capital decision.

Every hire spends
Money
Time
Leadership attention
The shape of the team around them

From talent decisions to organisational scale.

A vacant role isn’t a reason to start a search. It’s a reason to ask a better question first.

01
Align
Get clear before you get busy.
Early alignment with founders, pre- or post-fundraise: growth priorities, hiring sequence, India versus global.
02
Design & execute
Decide what the role has to do. Then find who can do it.
Role definition and org design first. Search follows, with success criteria agreed on day one.
03
Scale
The organisation changes. The conversation continues.
We stay close as priorities shift and the next set of decisions arrives, because they always do.
Fewer mis-hires
Better sequencing
Faster scale, lower friction
How we engage

Aligned to outcomes. Not to hiring activity.

The relationship starts before the search does.

01
Advisory begins early, across Align and Design, with no upfront platform retainer.
02
Hiring fees apply only when a hire is made.
03
Commercials are pre-agreed, stage-appropriate and transparent.
The advice comes first.

We don’t need to generate hiring activity to justify being here. We can tell you to hire, or to wait.

Meyrahkee

A talent capital partner for Indian startups and for US startups building teams in India. India at the core, with a growing track record in the US startup ecosystem.

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