Michelle McHargue

Michelle McHargue is a Partner at Costanoa Ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she focuses on people and talent strategies for early-stage technology companies. Prior to her current role, she served as a Talent Partner at Cowboy Ventures, spearheading talent initiatives and network building across the firm's portfolio. Over the course of her career spanning more than a decade in the tech ecosystem, she has recruited and developed teams for major technology corporations including Google, Yahoo, Adobe, and Amazon. Her daily work involves supporting founders in building executive teams from the seed stage onward, and she has been formally recognized on the "100 of the World's top VC Talent" list. McHargue currently leverages her extensive talent acquisition expertise to optimize people operations and scale organizational structures for emerging venture-backed startups like BuilderOps.