45% of Index Ventures's portfolio is hiring right now — 196 of 431 tracked companies, 7,633 open roles. 35% sit at Series B–D, which is where searches close fastest and where a specialist firm earns its fee. Plan on a median of 90 days from open requisition to signed offer.
Index Ventures is the lead investor in 431 companies in our database. 196 of them are hiring right now, with 7,633 open roles between them.
The portfolio skews later than most people assume: 151 companies at Series B, C or D, against 86 at Series A and 60 at Seed. That matters for compensation, because the band moves with stage.
| Stage | Portfolio companies |
|---|---|
| Series B–D | 151 |
| Series A | 86 |
| Seed | 60 |
| Total tracked | 431 |
| Role | Open positions |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 679 |
| Product Manager | 220 |
| Engineering Manager | 105 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | 101 |
| Product Designer | 80 |
| Solutions Engineer | 52 |
Titles are normalised across applicant tracking systems, so seniority variants tally together —
"Senior Software Engineer, Backend" and "Software Engineer II" both count as software engineer.
The list is scoped to technical and product roles.
A portfolio is not one hiring market. Seed companies hire generalists who will change roles twice
before Series B. Series B–D companies hire for a scoped function that already has a manager, a
budget line and a replacement cost — which is why searches at that stage close faster and stick.
With 151 of Index Ventures's tracked companies at Series B–D and 60 at Seed,
the portfolio's centre of gravity should decide your approach before any agency conversation starts.
Across our own signed placements, the **median time from an open requisition to a signed offer is
90 days**. That is the number to plan against, not a best case. A search that has not
produced a client-stage candidate inside the first month is behind, and the honest move is to
re-scope rather than keep sourcing against a brief that is not landing.
How many Index Ventures portfolio companies are hiring right now?
196 of the 431 we track (45%), with 7,633 open roles between them.
What stage are most Index Ventures companies?
151 are at Series B, C or D, 86 at Series A and 60 at Seed.
How long should a senior engineering search take at a venture-backed company?
Plan for a median of 90 days from open requisition to signed offer, based on our own placements.
Does the investor introduce you to recruiters?
Funds vary and most will share a preferred-vendor list on request. Treat it as a starting point, not
a shortlist — the list reflects who the fund has worked with, not who has filled your specific role.
What makes a portfolio company hard to hire for?
An unscoped brief. Stage, salary band and reporting line are usually fixable; a role that three
stakeholders describe differently is not, until they agree.
Tell us about your open roles and we'll start sourcing within 48 hours.
