Your engineering hub in Costa Rica. Owned by you. Run by us.
We set up your Costa Rican legal entity, hire your team under your brand, and run payroll, HR, accounting and compliance — so the team, the IP and the upside stay yours.
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| Outsourcing | EOR | CrestCrest Partners | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal employer | The vendor | The EOR | Your company |
| Team works under | Their brand | Your brand | Your brand |
| IP | By contract | By contract | Your entity |
| Going in-house later | Start over | Move every hire | Already yours |
$650M
Neustar's acquisition of TARGUSinfo, with our founders' team inside
$400M
LTV Co. exit, built on a 120-person Costa Rica hub
11+ yrs
with 66degrees, and still growing
$1B+
combined revenue of the companies we support
1000+
high-value tech jobs created in Costa Rica
<1%
involuntary turnover across our client teams
Teams we've built for
“She didn't just ‘hire’ a team; she built a world-class engineering hub from scratch.”
What we do
One partner. Every layer of your operation.
We establish your legal entity in Costa Rica, design and build your engineering organization under your brand, and run the infrastructure behind it — legal, HR, payroll and compliance. Your people work for you. We make sure everything around them works.
01 — Launch
Launch your Costa Rica operation
We set up your own legal entity in Costa Rica — your company, your brand, your operation. Your team works directly for you, not through us. We handle all the legal, compliance and back office infrastructure behind it.
Operational in 30 days.02 — Build
Build your engineering organization
We design the team structure and leadership layer, then build complete engineering, product, data and AI teams aligned with your business goals — and keep them growing.
Less than 1% involuntary turnover.03 — Operate
Run your back office — completely
Accounting, legal, compliance, HR administration and office management, ongoing.
Full accountability.Case studies
Some companies started at zero. None of them stayed there.
A track record of complete operations built from the ground up — across industries, team sizes and timelines. These are some of them.
200+ collaborators · $650M Neustar exit
55x revenue · $225M exit
11+ years · <1% involuntary turnover
13x revenue · $400M exit · 98/100 eNPS at LTV Co.
<1% involuntary turnover · 100% product built in CR
8 collaborators · Talent vertical
Why Crest Partners
This is not outsourcing. This is your operation — built inside Costa Rica.
Other providers
- Your team is employed by the vendor
- Your IP is protected only by contract
- Multiple vendors — no single accountability
- High turnover, constant recruiting cycles
- Leaving means starting over
- Generic setup, not built for your company
Crest Partners
- Design, build and run end to end
- One partner, full accountability
- 20 years inside the market
- Costa Rica as your Latin American hub — not just a team, a regional anchor
- Your entity, your IP, your people
- Less than 1% involuntary turnover, by design
Client voices
In the words of the leaders who built with us.
Building from scratch
“I had the pleasure of working closely with Marcela for many years, starting from the very beginning when our Costa Rica presence consisted of just her and Roberto. Watching her scale that office into the large, thriving organization it is today has been one of my favorite professional and personal experiences. […] She didn't just 'hire' a team; she built a world-class engineering hub from scratch. […] We would never have accomplished our goals without her.”
Leadership
“Marcela Villalta is a leader within the software development and data industry and a top talent with General Management skills leading Infutor's Costa Rica facility. Marcela's strengths are her business acumen skills and her ability to motivate people towards organizational objectives. Across Infutor, there is not a more respected leader than Marcela Villalta.”
Talent sourcing
“[…] She was fundamental in my efforts to build a well rounded development operations team. She was able to source high quality candidates across multiple disciplines and skill levels. She has intimate knowledge of the talent environment, including having relations within local Universities […]”
Scaling operations
“Marcela oversaw the growth and development of our department in Costa Rica from four people to over forty. She is an amazing manager and terrific person.”
Social impact
Growth only makes sense when everyone grows.
That's why our co-founder, Marcela Villalta, co-created Forward Costa Rica — a non-profit committed to developing the next generation of tech professionals in Costa Rica. Not as a program we run, but as a cause we believe in.
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