For venture and PE investors
A fractional CHRO your portfolio can actually use.
Most platform teams can’t staff a real CHRO function across the portfolio, and boutique exec firms won’t take portco-sized engagements. FlexHR is a productized fractional CHRO practice we make easy to introduce across your fintech and AI-native portcos — engagements priced and scoped at the portco level, not the fund level.
How investors typically use us.
Three patterns we see, in order of frequency. Each runs as a standard portco engagement — the same three shapes any other client buys, billed to the portco, with the warm intro coming from your platform team.
Founder onboarding (post-close)
When a new portco closes, a Diagnostic Sprint in the first 30–60 days surfaces comp-band gaps, leveling drift, manager loading, and AI-policy posture before they calcify. Founders get a clear 90-day roadmap; the fund gets a baseline read.
Portco people-side fire
When a portco needs RIF design, exec-exit comms, an investigation, or a public-incident response, Rapid Response ships in 24–72 hours. Often paired with employment counsel. The single highest-stakes referral path in venture.
HR Due Diligence
Pre-investment or pre-exit DD on people-side risk. Comp band sanity, leveling, regulatory exposure, manager-team variance, retention risk surfaced before they become deal issues. 1–2 week Project Engagement, fixed fee.
Portfolio-wide playbook access
Five productized playbooks (operating model, recruiting, comp, manager development, AI-workforce transformation) plus the two diagnostics, free for any portco. The friction-free first touch before a paid engagement.
No fund-level fee. Portco-level pricing.
We don’t sell a fund retainer. Engagements are priced at the portco level on the same three tiers any other client buys — Diagnostic Sprint, Project Engagement, Rapid Response. Funds that introduce us regularly get:
- · Standing intro path — a named contact, no warm-intro friction
- · Discount on the first engagement at any introduced portco
- · Quarterly portfolio benchmark cut for your platform team (if 5+ portcos engaged)
- · Rapid Response priority routing for portfolio incidents
If a deeper fund-level engagement makes sense down the line — e.g. a quarterly portfolio MOS Index, joint research, or a People-Partner-in-Residence model — we’ll build that with you when the relationship’s real, not before.