Karat Acquires Byteboard to Improve Talent Evaluation

Gunderson Dettmer represented client Karat, a partner for measuring and elevating technical talent, in its acquisition of Byteboard, a skills-based technical assessment solution. Karat’s innovative assessments, live expert-led technical interviews and unmatched talent insights help companies hire top talent and drive engineering excellence.

This acquisition is Karat’s third over the last two years and accelerates the company’s efforts to build next-generation solutions for organizations by supporting a broader range of roles, skills and levels across every stage of the hiring process. Byteboard’s technology will also complement Karat’s expertise and global scale to enhance how businesses measure candidate proficiency in using AI tools and building AI-enabled products.

In the announcement of the acquisition, Karat co-founder and CEO Mohit Bhende said, “Byteboard’s leading approach for measuring the skills needed in an AI-assisted workplace strengthens Karat’s delivery of the most predictive hiring signal for Fortune 500 companies. In today’s complex technical environments, software engineers must possess a deep understanding of how interconnected systems work together. 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.”

The Gunderson Dettmer team was led by Ibrahim Elshamy and Julie Mahoney and included Amy Luong and Lauren Rogers.

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