Kenny Mendes

First Round is a venture capital firm that works with founders exclusively at the earliest stages of company building, often when all they have is an “imagine if.” We fill in where we can until the team is filled out, tackling crucial early hiring and equipping those who are great at building product with the skills to sell it, too. By getting the foundational firsts right, we increase the odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Our founders’ “imagine ifs” have turned into companies like Notion, Roblox, Uber, and Square.

Riviera Partners is a global executive recruiting firm specializing in Technology, Engineering, Product and Design leadership. We understand that hiring the right technology leadership is the difference between success and failure for any company. Product development leaders – engineering, product, and design – are the most critical executive hires a company will make. Exceptional product development executives possess a rare combination of leadership experience and demonstrated technical achievement, making them difficult to find and even harder to evaluate. Riviera’s exclusive focus on technology talent means we bring decades of collective domain experience, tens of thousands of executive relationships, and the accumulated data of hundreds of thousands of interactions with technology leaders to bear for our clients on every search. For more information, visit rivierapartners.com.