Nivaan
Placed Founder & CEO; venture raised $4.5 M within 18 months.
India’s first pain‑management start‑up needed a visionary leader to take an idea to market.


Challenge
- Define a rare “builder‑CEO” persona.
- Assess true entrepreneurial grit and domain depth.
- Viable talent pool < 10 leaders nationwide.
Approach
- 120+ long‑list interviews; psychometric & investor panels.
- Leveraged proprietary founder network + EIR program.
- Flexed search to COO / CoS profiles before final lock.
Nivaan now serves 10 K+ patients—proof that the right founder accelerates everything.