Chase Woolard

Manager - Business Development, Partnerships, & Recruiting @ Fonzi AI

About

I am a recruiting & people leader turned consultant/advisor with 14 years of experience specializing in building and scaling teams for venture-backed startups in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and other high-growth hotbeds. I have spent time on the consulting/firm side and served as a multi-time first people and talent hire internally, helping startups grow from less than 10 people into the hundreds. I have navigated various complex environments across sectors, including AI, Fintech, HR, L&D, and Legal Tech, helping companies scale from pre-seed stages through Series B and beyond, partnering with technical and non-technical cofounders to build long-lasting teams. TL;DR - I help startups and founders build better teams, faster and more efficiently, while avoiding the pitfalls and landmines that exist on the path of scale. If you are building, especially in SF, I would love to meet you.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Technical Recruiting, Recruiting, Leadership, Sales, Hiring, Human Resources, Business Development, New Business Development, Internet Recruiting, Sourcing, Strategic Sourcing, Management, Customer Service, Training, Team Building, Strategic Planning, Consulting, Lead Generation, Start-ups, CRM

Experience

Manager - Business Development, Partnerships, & Recruiting

Fonzi AI

2026-1 - Present · 9 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Fonzi AI is a Lightspeed-backed talent marketplace that matches elite engineers with AI startups and high-growth tech companies by reducing friction and removing common agency barriers. It’s easy, fast, and discreet. Come see how startups from the top VC's are changing the way they engage with the best engineers in the age of AI. It's free to post, review, and interview. Ask me how

Co-Founder

EarlyStageHQ

2018-4 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Helping early startups build by connecting them with the right people to solve challenges across the business as they scale. All things pre-seed to Series B

Recruiting

Eudia

2024-8 - 2025-7 · 1 yr

Palo Alto, California, United States

First people and talent person in. Helped the company scale from 20-100 across engineering, product, GTM, finance, and operations.

Director Of Recruiting

Hone

2022-5 - 2023-9 · 1 yr 5 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Led talent from Seed-Series B Partnered with the Senior Director of People; reported to the CEO/Founder and VP of Finance/Operations.

Recruiting Lead

Hone

2018-7 - 2022-5 · 3 yrs 11 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Head of Technical Recruiting

AngelList

2020-8 - 2021-7 · 1 yr

San Francisco Bay Area

Head of People & Recruiting

Perfect Price

2018-8 - 2020-10 · 2 yrs 3 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Perfect Price enables large enterprises to apply AI to their largest challenges and opportunities. Joined as the 1st people lead, where I worked with all departments and reported to the CEO and co-founder of a Salesforce Ventures-backed, early-stage AI and Fintech startup.

Recruiting Services Manager

The Sourcery

2017-6 - 2018-7 · 1 yr 2 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Led a team of recruiters providing in-house recruiting services for VC-backed technical startups based in the Bay Area. Promoted from top-performing IC to team lead and manager. - Scaled and managed a recruiting team from 2 to 16 recruiters. - Worked with startups including Coinbase, Crunchbase, Plex, Coursera, and more.

Senior Recruiter

The Sourcery

2016-6 - 2017-6 · 1 yr 1 mo

San Francisco Bay Area

Recruiter/Client Partner

PassivelyHR

2013-8 - 2016-7 · 3 yrs

San Francisco Bay Area

- Worked with tech companies and startups from 10-100 employees. - Worked with Founders and other C-level leadership on a daily basis. - Full life-cycle, passive recruiting for startups and tech companies. - Collaborated with hiring managers and strategized processes and hiring plans.