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Byteboard co-founder and CEO Sargun Kaur. (LinkedIn Photo)
Seattle startup Karat is boosting its technical talent platform with the acquisition of Byteboard, a San Francisco-based company that also helps companies run technical interviews.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in 2018, Byteboard spun out of Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 in 2021. The company, which raised $5 million in 2022, developed a project-based interview product designed to assess engineering candidates.
“By bringing together Byteboard’s AI-enabled skills assessment with Karat’s human + technology approach, we are helping companies future-proof their workforce by accurately measuring and hiring top talent,” Karat CEO Mohit Bhende said in a statement.
Byteboard is led by Sargun Kaur, a former engineering manager at Google. Kaur and other Byteboard employees will join Karat. A spokesperson declined to share specific headcount numbers related to the acquisition.
Kaur founded Byteboard with former Google colleague Nicole Hardson-Hurley, who left Byteboard in 2023 and is now at Zapier.
This is Karat’s third acquisition in two years. It previously bought Triplebyte and AspectAI.
Founded in 2014, Karat became one of Seattle’s highest-valued startups after it raised $110 million in a Series C round in 2021, which brought its total valuation to $1.1 billion.
Karat went through multiple rounds of layoffs in 2023.
It currently ranks No. 25 on the GeekWire 200, our list of the top startups in the Pacific Northwest.
