We design tailored recruitment strategies that align with your portfolio’s growth needs in sales, IT, and product or full team builds. Our approach ensures fast results and repeatable hiring success.
We act as an extension of your talent team, or your go-to partner, integrating seamlessly to scale recruitment efforts as your portfolio grows.
Our SaaS & AI and scaling expertise ensures we place candidates perfectly matched to your portfolio’s growth stage and market dynamics.
Through our extensive VC and client network, we connect your portfolio with top talent and valuable insights to drive success.
We’ve been in your portfolio companies’ shoes. Our team includes former operators who understand the realities of scaling SaaS & AI businesses, bringing practical, results-driven insights to every placement.
We collaborate with venture capital teams to anticipate talent needs and deliver strategic, forward-thinking solutions.
Achieve top-tier placements in as little as 7 days, ensuring you never lose momentum in critical growth stages.
At Bluebird, we understand that relationships drive success in venture capital. That’s why we have a dedicated VC relationship manager to provide a truly white-glove service ensuring you and your portfolio companies get the talent support you need, exactly when you need it.
Machiel Kunst
Founder & CEO
Machiel spent 9 years at SolarWinds MSP playing a pivotal role in their growth from $6mio to $250mio ARR. He hired, trained and groomed the EMEA sales team consisting of 45 people. At FastSpring he hired a sales team of 15 people within a year and built the region from $0 to $3mio. High integrity, quality and conscientiousness are at the core of his approach.
Jelle van Jaarsveld
Managing Director
Jelle van Jaarsveld worked as a SaaS leader for nearly a decade in both Meltwater and Lucid Software. He scaled his team and expanded his responsibilities to become Regional Director, ultimately leading a team of 120 employees across EMEA and managing nearly $40M in ARR.
His true passion lies in building high-performing teams and his leadership approach centers on creating an environment where people feel both safe and challenged. In his free time he loves to play sports, read books and spend time in nature with family and friends.
James Bergl
Managing Partner APAC
James graduated from uni in 2008 and joined SAP’s sales grad program. From there, he found his love for velocity solution sales in the IT channel with Autotask. He got transferred to Australia from the UK with N-able in 2013 and in 2015 had his career win in launching Datto as their founding AE in 2015. Within 6 years, they’d grown the business to $40m in turnover and 130 staff. Most recently, he helped to launch Pax8, a cloud distributor in APAC in 2022 and within 2 years they’d grown to 2000+ partners and 160 staff across APAC. In March 2024, he came on board with Bluebird as Managing Partner for APAC where he hopes to help other emerging SaaS vendors identify and hire top talent.
Let’s discuss how we can power your companies with the talent they need to succeed.
