Series A Case Studies

Oakstone International’s expertise is strategically positioning start-ups to attract hard-to-reach professionals. Start-ups often face hiring challenges due to their brand not being well known, however, Oakstone has the skills, experience and network to find the very best fit for open positions.

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Company: An open platform for global trade finance powered by distributed ledger technology.  The platform provides financial institutions, businesses, lenders and technology providers with a smarter, more connected, and more secure platform for facilitating the movement of goods, assets, and credit around the world in support of global trade.

Founded: 2015

Total Funding: $16M (Series A, 2018)

Oakstone: The UK-based company approached Oakstone in 2020 to source a Chief Financial Officer. After successfully assisting them, Oakstone is now helping to build their sales and pre-sales teams in the UK and US.

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Company: A specialist platform that builds secure, self-sovereign chat apps and collaboration solutions using the open matrix protocol.

Founded: 2017

Total Funding: $18.1M (Series A, 2020)

Oakstone: The UK-based company needed assistance sourcing their first person on the ground in Germany.  After successful hiring in this region, Oakstone were appointed to assist them to grow their team in France.

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Company: An enterprise intelligence system that makes communications data understood and actionable

Founded: 2015

Total Funding: $3.6M (Venture Round, 2018)

Oakstone: We were appointed to hire their first marketing person in the UK, we have since continued to work with the business on sales roles within their company.

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Company: A business that empowers businesses to automatically measure, report and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time.

Founded: 2019

Total Funding: $3.4M (Seed Funding, 2020)

Oakstone: This UK company approached Oakstone to assist them with the hiring of their first sales and marketing people. We successfully hired two female professionals for these positions. Oakstone has continued to work with this company to assist them with their expansion.

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Company: A business transforming the banking industry’s approach to non-financial risk

Founded: 2018

Total Funding: $12M (Series A, 2020)

Oakstone: This transformative company chose to work with Oakstone to hire them their first strategic account manager, partner manager and Business Enterprise salesperson. After successful completion, Oakstone is continuing to work with them on expanding their business.

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Company: A leading supplier data and information governance technology company

Founded: 2018

Oakstone: We assisted this start-up to hire their first software salespeople and continue to work with them to grow their teams in the UK.