How Renous Helps
What We Offer | What It Means |
Skilled recruiters work for your portfolio companies for a fixed period. No long-term commitment. | |
HR Shared Services | We handle basics like onboarding, payroll, compliance, and leave tracking. |
Temporary & Permanent CHROs | Senior HR leaders step in when there’s no one in-house, or during changes. |
When this works the best?
- When your portfolio company is growing fast and needs to hire quickly
- When there is no HR team in place
- When you're managing a transition or carve-out
- When you want to avoid the cost of full-time recruiters
- When the founder or CEO is managing HR themselves
What You Get
- No hefty 8.33% success fee
- Recruiters can start in 2-3 days
- You pay only for the months they work
- Regular reports and hiring status updates
- One point of contact for multiple companies
HR Shared Services – Powered by Renous, Backed by the Fund | Joint Offerings
An easy way for PE/VC funds to provide professional HR support to all their portfolio companies — without building separate HR teams. Renous can set up and run a dedicated HR Shared Services Center for the fund’s entire portfolio.
PE/VC Fund Challenge | Traditional Approach | With Renous HR Shared Services |
No in-house HR at early-stage startups | Founder-led HR with delays and errors | Plug-and-play HR team from Day 1 – hiring, onboarding, compliance done |
Inconsistent hiring across the portfolio | Each company hires its own recruiters or agencies | Central hiring desk with Renous Recruiters managing roles across companies |
Founders overwhelmed with HR tasks | Distracts from product/strategy focus | Renous acts as a people partner – founders focus, we handle people ops |
During M&A, leadership exits, or carve-outs, there's no continuity | Temporary consultants or no support at all | Renous steps in with ready teams to handle transition without disruption |
No HR analytics or consistency across portfolio | HR seen as cost, not value | Shared dashboards, common HR practices, and smarter decision-making |
BOT HR Department for a Startup
BOT stands for Build–Operate–Transfer.
Renous can build and run a full-fledged HR department for a portfolio company from scratch — taking care of everything from hiring to compliance — and later transfer it to the company when it’s ready to manage HR in-house.
Phase | What Renous Does | Benefit to Portfolio Company |
Starts with ODR | Deploy experienced recruiters immediately to fill urgent roles | Quick hiring support without waiting for full HR setup |
Build | Set up HR systems, policies, tools, and initial HR team | HR function created from scratch by experts |
Operate | Run day-to-day HR: hiring, onboarding, payroll, compliance, culture | Smooth HR operations while leadership focuses on growth |
Transfer | Hand over a stable, functioning HR department to the company | Ready-to-own HR team and systems without setup burden |