Announcing True Venture Studios, a Dedicated Boutique Reaffirming Its Roots in Venture

By Business Wire On Sep 24, 2026

True, the premier global executive talent platform powered by data, AI, and deep sector expertise, announced the launch of True Venture Studios, a boutique executive search practice serving founders and venture-backed companies across AI infrastructure, HardTech, SpaceTech, DefenseTech, Fintech, Healthcare, and Life Sciences, among others.

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“True Venture Studios is our way of reasserting our roots, giving founders a dedicated team that moves at their speed and fights for the best talent in the market,” said Rhoda Longhenry, Managing Director and Head of the Venture Capital Practice.

Since its founding in 2013, True has always partnered with founders and investors across the venture ecosystem, with more than half of clients returning for future engagements. As True has grown to serve other asset classes at different stages of maturity, True Venture Studios expands on that commitment by providing a highly specialized team to innovators, disruptors and leaders.

“True Venture Studios is our way of reasserting our roots, giving founders a dedicated team that moves at their speed and fights for the best talent in the market,” said Rhoda Longhenry, Managing Director and Head of the Venture Capital Practice. “Every business has unique hiring challenges. The True Venture Studios team understands those nuances for VC-backed companies.”

Founders are facing compressed company-building timelines in the AI era, and scaling from inception to late-stage rounds in a fraction of the time they once did. That pace requires hiring across functions faster and with greater precision than conventional searches allow.

True Venture Studios thrives in this moment, identifying the right executive in an average of 21 days. True Venture Studios brings together True’s strongest venture talent for every engagement, drawing on experienced talent partners who have built leadership teams for some of the market’s most successful VC-backed companies. Practitioners are embedded across the United States, Europe, and other key global markets.

“True Venture Studios brings the exact expertise required to deliver this caliber of talent by combining a high-touch, consultative approach with True’s extensive global talent network,” said Dan Miller, Managing Director and Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Venture Capital Practices. “We know that in venture, speed is everything,”

“Venture is where True began,” said Josh Withers, Co-founder of True. “We have always moved at founder speed, long before AI made that expectation universal. We have worked alongside founding teams from mobile to cloud to SaaS, staying with them from their first institutional rounds through their IPOs. The world has transformed around us. Our commitment to venture has not.”

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