Strategic HR

People & Culture for World Changing Startups, Scale Ups and Growth Companies. 

We're a collective of fractional people & culture operators supporting groundbreaking and world-changing companies.

We're trusted by the early stage, venture-backed tech community. 

We focus our efforts on supporting early stage companies from pre-seed to Series B, predominantly - but not exclusively - in (deep) tech, fintech and biotech sectors.

Our services

How we help 

Our work spans several categories of the People Function and is delivered via three service models:

Fractional People Operators

We provide experienced People leaders and operators who embed into your organisation on a fractional basis, flexing with your company’s stage and needs. 

Projects & Consulting

Specialist support on defined people initiatives and challenges, including independent employee relations processes.

Off-the-shelf Products

We offer several ready-made tools, templates and resources to help you scale your people practices confidently and compliantly.

Our work and impact

Our work spans all of the typical People and Culture categories, driving measurable results across talent density, hiring velocity, reduced people-related burn rate, due diligence readiness, investor confidence and team productivity.

The types of work we do...

Team alignment

Cultural OS design ("values"), OKR & EOS implementations, Performance frameworks and Organisation design for growth and pivots

Reward

Reward strategy development including options scheme advisory and Sales incentive plans

Talent

ATS implementations, Talent sourcing, Board appointments, Right fit recruitment process design

Sensitive Projects

Founder separations, Downsizing, Independent employee relations processes such as investigations and grievances

Compliance & Tech

SOC2 and ISO27001 accreditations, HRIS implementations, handbooks and employment contracts

What people say after working with us

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“Innovo HR's impact on our organisation has been remarkable, and much credit goes to their expertise. Sarah's knowledge, proactive mindset, and responsiveness make her an incredible asset. I wholeheartedly recommend Innovo HR to any organisation seeking top-tier HR solutions.

- Managing Director, Privately Owned Scale Up

“The background & experience of the team at Innovo Hr speaks for itself; when we need timely, cost-effective HR support for ourselves and for our portfolio companies, Sarah and the team consistently deliver a high quality reliable service”

- Owen Thompson - CEO, Cambridge Future Tech

“Blecon needed to quickly understand options for implementing a first global hire. Sarah quickly understood our needs and delivered us the analysis that enabled choosing the right short term option whilst helping define our longterm global employment strategy”

- Simon Ford - CEO, Blecon

“Sarah has provided essential and personalised support as we build our team and plot our growth. She has been genuine, warm and a pleasure to work with and clearly cares about our company.  As a first-time founder, knowing that we’re not only doing everything right with our HR but also taking the best possible care of our employees is invaluable.  Innovo HR has helped me with everything from employee handbooks, contracts, hiring and disputes to working with me to define our company culture and how we want to be seen by the world and our employees. The impact has been to take some significant pressure from my shoulders whilst helping me to grow a company from the ground up that I can be proud of."

Andrew Hodgson - CEO & Co-Founder of Stembond Technologies

"Working with Innovo Hr has really helped me to formalise my thinking, planning and strategising around HR. I have also learned a lot about how to present ideas and plan processes by watching Sarah's work that I am a much better and more confident HR lead as a result"

Business Services Manager, Privately Owned Scaling Company

"It was great to work with Innovo Hr, as they helped us through a difficult period with a great can-do attitude, and being sensitive to our needs as a start-up"

Vincent Korstanje - CEO, Kigen

“Innovo HR's impact on our organisation has been remarkable, and much credit goes to their expertise. Sarah's knowledge, proactive mindset, and responsiveness make her an incredible asset. I wholeheartedly recommend Innovo HR to any organisation seeking top-tier HR solutions.

- Managing Director, Privately Owned Scale Up

“The background & experience of the team at Innovo Hr speaks for itself; when we need timely, cost-effective HR support for ourselves and for our portfolio companies, Sarah and the team consistently deliver a high quality reliable service”

- Owen Thompson - CEO, Cambridge Future Tech

“Blecon needed to quickly understand options for implementing a first global hire. Sarah quickly understood our needs and delivered us the analysis that enabled choosing the right short term option whilst helping define our longterm global employment strategy”

- Simon Ford - CEO, Blecon

“Sarah has provided essential and personalised support as we build our team and plot our growth. She has been genuine, warm and a pleasure to work with and clearly cares about our company.  As a first-time founder, knowing that we’re not only doing everything right with our HR but also taking the best possible care of our employees is invaluable.  Innovo HR has helped me with everything from employee handbooks, contracts, hiring and disputes to working with me to define our company culture and how we want to be seen by the world and our employees. The impact has been to take some significant pressure from my shoulders whilst helping me to grow a company from the ground up that I can be proud of."

Andrew Hodgson - CEO & Co-Founder of Stembond Technologies

"Working with Innovo Hr has really helped me to formalise my thinking, planning and strategising around HR. I have also learned a lot about how to present ideas and plan processes by watching Sarah's work that I am a much better and more confident HR lead as a result"

Business Services Manager, Privately Owned Scaling Company

"It was great to work with Innovo Hr, as they helped us through a difficult period with a great can-do attitude, and being sensitive to our needs as a start-up"

Vincent Korstanje - CEO, Kigen

“Innovo HR's impact on our organisation has been remarkable, and much credit goes to their expertise. Sarah's knowledge, proactive mindset, and responsiveness make her an incredible asset. I wholeheartedly recommend Innovo HR to any organisation seeking top-tier HR solutions.

- Managing Director, Privately Owned Scale Up

“The background & experience of the team at Innovo Hr speaks for itself; when we need timely, cost-effective HR support for ourselves and for our portfolio companies, Sarah and the team consistently deliver a high quality reliable service”

- Owen Thompson - CEO, Cambridge Future Tech

“Blecon needed to quickly understand options for implementing a first global hire. Sarah quickly understood our needs and delivered us the analysis that enabled choosing the right short term option whilst helping define our longterm global employment strategy”

- Simon Ford - CEO, Blecon

“Sarah has provided essential and personalised support as we build our team and plot our growth. She has been genuine, warm and a pleasure to work with and clearly cares about our company.  As a first-time founder, knowing that we’re not only doing everything right with our HR but also taking the best possible care of our employees is invaluable.  Innovo HR has helped me with everything from employee handbooks, contracts, hiring and disputes to working with me to define our company culture and how we want to be seen by the world and our employees. The impact has been to take some significant pressure from my shoulders whilst helping me to grow a company from the ground up that I can be proud of."

Andrew Hodgson - CEO & Co-Founder of Stembond Technologies

"Working with Innovo Hr has really helped me to formalise my thinking, planning and strategising around HR. I have also learned a lot about how to present ideas and plan processes by watching Sarah's work that I am a much better and more confident HR lead as a result"

Business Services Manager, Privately Owned Scaling Company

"It was great to work with Innovo Hr, as they helped us through a difficult period with a great can-do attitude, and being sensitive to our needs as a start-up"

Vincent Korstanje - CEO, Kigen

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