Ben Herman

Co-Founder

Los Angeles, California, United States15 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Raised $96M from top VCs like Sequoia Capital
Placed 200+ engineers at top quantitative trading firms
Grew team from 10 to 80 employees in 2 years

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in quantitative trading and startup recruitment.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical RecruitingStart-ups

Other Skills

Engineering & Research talentAI & Engineering talentAdvising PeopleCollege RecruitingAnimal WelfareCharitable GivingDiversity & InclusionDiversity RecruitmentDiversity ChampionVenture CapitalAngel InvestingMetaview

About

Currently building the #1 quantitative trading search firm again. Ben is an operator and serial entrepreneur that loves to build. His life's work has always revolved around people and talent. Some of his career highlights: Set up first business at 21, an executive search firm 👨‍🎓 Personal record of $4.6M billed in one year 🎉 $150M+ in revenue from his first business 🤝 Raised $96M from top VCs like Sequoia Capital 💵 Angel invested in 4 unicorns 🦄 Worked and placed 200+ engineers & researchers at firms like Jane Street, Hudson River Trading, Two Sigma, PDT Partners, Citadel, and Headlands Technologies Outside of work Ben is a dad to 4 kids, a husband, and collector of trading cards & sports memorabilia

Experience

Aspen search

Founder & Recruiter

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Florida, United States · Remote

Formerly known as Herman Search
📈 - Engineering & Research talent for quantitative trading companies
💻 - AI & Engineering talent for VC backed startups from Pre Seed - Series D

Engineering & Research talentAI & Engineering talentTechnical RecruitingStart-ups

Kin ventures

2 roles

Advisor

Promoted

Nov 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr

Founding Partner

Nov 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr

We focus on investing $1M to $5M as a strategic investor, providing exceptional software engineering talent to our portfolio companies via our in-house agency GTP.
Industry Focus: Web 3.0, Digital Health, Future of Work, and Marketplaces
Get in touch at ben@kinvc.com

Scratchpad

Investor

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Ashby

Investor

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Logixboard

Investor

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Otta.com

Investor

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · London, England, United Kingdom

Company was acquired.

Untapped

2 roles

Board Director

Oct 2021 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

CEO & Co Founder

Nov 2017 – Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Highlights as CEO:
3X ARR YoY
Grew the team from 10-80 employees in 2 years
Raised over $80m from Seed to Series C
Got over 25,000 people hired
Company most recently valued at $400m

Merge api

Investor

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

Mosaic.tech

Investor

Jan 2020 – Mar 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

Was acquired

Grep technology partners (gtp)

Managing Partner

Apr 2019 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Formerly Herman Search

Herman search

Managing Partner

Apr 2012 – Mar 2019 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

An executive search firm that helps the most elite quantitative finance companies hire top engineering talent.
Personally responsible for over $12m of billing, placing hundreds of software engineers with quant funds like: Two Sigma Investments, PDT Partners & D.E.Shaw.
Helped build engineering teams for some of the most exciting tech start-ups in Silicon Valley like: Clever, Connectifier & Nervana Systems.