4 Key Hires, 100% Retention: How Agicap Scaled Its GTM Team with hyrise

hyriseRecruiting helped Agicap fill 3 critical roles: SDR, AE and leadership with 100% retention.

In their Words

"We were looking for an all-in-one partner for hiring and training. That's exactly what we found."

"It's fast, personal, and no bullshit. You just get things done."

"On every axis, skills and culture, the candidates fit really well. Everyone we hired through you passed probation and is fully integrated."

Agicap's sales reps don't ease into the job. From day one, they're on calls with CFOs, CEOs, and financial experts who know their numbers cold.

That means hiring "good enough" wasn't an option. But neither was hiring slowly. Agicap was in a rapid growth phase and needed to scale its SDR team fast.

The solution: a recruiting partnership with hyrise that delivered 3 strategic hires across SDR and leadership roles, with 100% retention through probation.

The Company

Agicap is a French-founded SaaS fintech and one of Europe's fastest-growing treasury management platforms. Active in Germany for ~5 years, its DACH operations are led by General Manager Max Springer, who oversees everything growth-related, including sales hiring and enablement.

The Challenge: Quality and Speed Don't Usually Coexist

Agicap's sales environment is unusually demanding.

Reps engage with senior financial stakeholders from the very first call. Onboarding is long. And the bar for who can actually do the job and do it well is genuinely high.

"We make no compromises on quality. And at the same time, we need to scale."
- Max Springer, General Manager DACH, Agicap

Hiring internally at that standard, at that pace, while keeping recruiting costs in check? It wasn't working. Agicap needed an external partner who understood B2B sales talent, not just headcount.

The Solution: Precision Over Volume

Agicap partnered with hyrise to build a focused SDR recruiting engine, later expanding into AE and leadership hiring.

What made it work wasn't volume, it was precision and iteration.

Setup was fast. Within days, hyrise had mapped the role, aligned on the ideal SDR profile, and begun presenting candidates.

Feedback loops were tight. After one or two iterations to sharpen the candidate persona, placement quality became consistently high.

Integration was frictionless. hyrise embedded directly into Agicap's Slack and existing recruiting workflows, no extra admin layer, no friction.

"Setup was super fast. You know what you're doing, so you ask the right questions and you can get into execution really quickly."

"You only send profiles that actually fit. That makes the whole process very efficient."

The Results

4 Strategic Hires Across SDR, AE and Leadership

For Agicap we filled:

• 2 SDR roles
• 1 SDR Team Lead
• 1 Account Executive

Every hire was aligned on both technical fit and cultural fit.

100% Retention Through Probation

Every candidate placed through hyrise passed probation and integrated successfully into the team.

A Recruiting Process That Scales

By working with pre-qualified candidates and rapid feedback loops, Agicap's internal team spent less time filtering and more time evaluating, compressing hiring cycles and reducing recruiting overhead.

Beyond Recruiting: Training That Moved the Needle

After the initial recruiting success, Agicap extended the partnership into sales training, sending one senior leader and three team members (2 SDRs, 1 AE) through hyrise's program as an additional performance measure.

The outcome: all are now top performers. The three individual contributors have since been promoted, moving into team leadership, Account Executive, and Account Management roles.

Performance increases of 20–40% (and in some cases higher) were observed across the cohort, though Max notes the clearest signal was qualitative: a visible acceleration in ramp speed compared to team members who hadn't gone through the program.

"It's hard to pin every KPI to one thing, but it's pretty clear that it's a significant contributor."

The results spread organically: colleagues are now asking to join the next cohort. Two new team members started training in the most recent month.

What Made This Partnership Work

Three things stood out in how Agicap and hyrise worked together:

1. Fast, lightweight setupNo bloated onboarding. Agreed on a process, aligned on the profile, started placing candidates, all within days.

2. Embedded, not bolted onhyrise integrated into Agicap's Slack and pipeline management tools, making collaboration feel native rather than outsourced.

3. Continuous calibrationProfile refinement wasn't a one-time exercise. Regular check-ins and honest feedback loops meant quality improved over time, not just at the start.

What's Next

The partnership has expanded from SDR recruiting to leadership hiring and ongoing training, with more team members entering the program now.

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