About us
We make hiring feel less like a transaction.
Founded on one idea: the unscalable thing is the only thing worth doing.
Work with us →Upstars started in 2019 with three people and one client.
We didn't have a playbook. We had a belief: that the best hires come from deep understanding, not high volume.
While the industry was scaling with automation and spray-and-pray outreach, we chose to stay small. To know every candidate by name. To call back the same day.
Six years later, we've placed over 9,800 people across 220+ companies. Our recruiters average six years of tenure — in an industry where most burn out in two.
“We don't want to be the biggest. We want to be the one you actually trust.”
Today, Upstars is a full-service talent and technology consultancy. Permanent hiring, contract staffing, RPO, payroll, tech advisory, executive search — delivered from Bangalore to companies across India, GCC, and Singapore.
Boutique, by choice. Obsessive, by nature.
The team
Recruiters, not robots.
Founder & CEO
15 years in talent acquisition
Head of Delivery
8 years, 3000+ placements
Lead — Contract Staffing
10 years in IT staffing
Lead — Payroll
Compliance across 28 states
Tech Advisory Lead
Ex-Amazon, Ex-Flipkart
Lead — Executive Search
CXO mandates across APAC
Trusted by
220+ companies. From seed to IPO.
Our values
What we believe.
The unscalable thing is the only thing worth doing.
We deliberately stay boutique. Every candidate gets a phone call, not an email blast. Every client gets a named recruiter, not a ticket number. It doesn't scale. That's the point.
Speed is a feature.
14 days to shortlist. 72 hours for contract deployment. We move fast because we've done the slow work of building relationships in advance.
Skin in the game.
Zero retainers, zero exclusivity on permanent hiring. We earn every placement. If a hire doesn't work out, we replace them. That's not a policy — it's a reflex.