What

 We Do

For Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Accelerator Firms

At People Function, we’re passionate about supporting startups and partnering with venture capital companies, private equity organizations, and accelerator programs. We understand the challenges founders and leaders face, and our goal is to provide high-value education and practical takeaways to prevent common early and growth-stage issues. We build long-term relationships with operating partners and platform teams, offering impactful trainings and consulting services that address operational challenges before they escalate. Our tailored support includes:

Trainings

We offer a suite of one-hour training sessions designed to educate founders and executives on critical HR and talent strategy topics, including:

  • Compensation Strategy: Build a fair and equitable compensation philosophy, structure, and strategy to incentivize performance.
  • Building Your HR & Talent Infrastructure: Establish the foundational people infrastructure for scaling, from system-selection to intentional culture-building and everything in between.
  • Recruiting & Hiring: Learn strategic hiring practices to build a strong, resilient team and align recruitment practices with future growth.
  • Team Building: Learn how to build an agile team, optimizing for psychological safety and high performance.
  • Performance Management: Create a feedback culture and performance management systems that drive success and employee growth.

Custom-Built Training:
Collaborate with us to design tailored training sessions that address the specific needs of your portfolio companies.

Office Hours

Allow your portfolio companies to engage with our HR experts during specified office hours to address pressing topics and facilitate open Q&A sessions.

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  • Custom Office Hours: Learn from our founder about navigating HR risks and building scalable people support structures.
  • Compensation Office Hours: Gain insights from our Compensation Practice Lead on compensation fundamentals and strategies

Custom Office Hours
Is there a common challenge that your portfolio companies are facing? We're flexible to your needs and can work with Leaders to build your own office hours programming.

Our experience collaborating with People Function has been nothing short of transformative for the early-stage startups in our Portfolio. Their insightful guidance and strategic investments have propelled companies from 0 to 1 in HR functional building, while the expertise in fractional HR business partnering has provided invaluable support in navigating the complexities of human resource management. They seamlessly orchestrated the establishment of foundational processes, shape performance, engagement, and compensation structures with precision and foresight, and set the stage for any early stage startup's sustainable growth and success.

Rebecca Price
Partner at Primary Ventures

I recently had the privilege of engaging with the People Function specifically for their expertise in compensation, and I cannot speak highly enough of my experience. From the outset, the team was helpful, friendly, and flexible, which set a great tone for our partnership. The team spoke with our firm founders on how early-stage companies should think about building a compensation philosophy before hiring your first employee. The session was engaging, and interactive. It provided valuable insights and practical strategies that founders could immediately implement within their organization. Following the presentation the People Function ran office hours so the founders could do a deeper dive into their particular situations. I look forward to future collaborations!

Tanaz Mody
Head of People Operations &
Talent at Lerer Hippeau
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