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Candidate Labs
The Modern Search Firm for High Growth Companies
About Candidate Labs
Candidate Labs is a modern search firm built by a repeat VC-backed entrepreneur who's personally done the founder journey twice. We offer executive and professional search for companies that want access to highly entrepreneurial and impactful talent. Functions we cover: go-to-market, product, design, engineering, finance, and operations. We've built iconic teams and hired leaders for: Notion (Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures) Retool (Sequoia Capital, a16z) Vercel (Accel) Deel (a16z, Spark Capital) Decagon (a16z, Bain Capital Ventures) Luma AI (a16z) Credal AI (Spark Capital) Cleanlab (Bain Capital Ventures, Menlo Ventures) Homie (Khosla Ventures, OpenAI) Concourse (a16z) Complete (Accel, Stripe) Muon Space (Radical Ventures, Costanoa) Coda (General Catalyst, Greylock) Modern Treasury (Benchmark) dbt Labs (Sequoia Capital, a16z) Tome (Greylock, Coatue) EvenUp (BCV, Lightspeed, Bessemer) Airbase (First Round, Menlo Ventures) Lattice (Thrive Capital) Sentry.io (Accel, NEA) Aurora Solar (Fifth Wall, ICONIQ) Finch (Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst) Mindbloom (Founders Fund, Kleiner Perkins) Whatnot (a16z) Lumos Identity (a16z) and more!
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Signals from Candidate Labs
5 published signals
Sales & Marketing
Candidate Labs reports that senior engineers in Canada with 6+ years of experience are asking for $180K USD on the low end, clustering around $200–250K USD base.
Reported by David Kimball
Sales & Marketing
Candidate Labs notes that published salary guides still say a senior in Toronto makes $135–175K CAD (98 - 127k USD).
Reported by David Kimball
Sales & Marketing
Candidate Labs notes that new grads out of Waterloo are quoting $150–200K USD, which is basically what a Bay Area new grad asks for.
Reported by David Kimball
Sales & Marketing
Candidate Labs notes that a staff MLE in Waterloo is asking for $300K minimum.
Reported by David Kimball
Sales & Marketing
Candidate Labs notes that a Head of AI in Toronto is asking for $270–300K USD.
Reported by David Kimball