Karat

Karat is a highly disruptive, billion-dollar unicorn that has fundamentally revolutionized the technical hiring process by pioneering the world's first "Interviewing Cloud." Founded in 2014 by Mohit Bhende and Jeffrey Spector, and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company solves the massive global shortage of software engineers by completely outsourcing technical interviews. Under the hood, Karat leverages a massive global network of vetted "Interview Engineers" supported by purpose-built interviewing infrastructure and AI-driven market intelligence to conduct highly predictive, fair, and 24/7 technical assessments. Their primary target audience spans hyper-growth tech startups and massive global enterprises (like Atlassian, Citi, and Mastercard) that desperately need to reclaim thousands of hours of internal engineering bandwidth while eliminating pedigree bias. What sets Karat apart in the incredibly competitive HR Tech landscape is its massive scale—having conducted over 500,000 interviews—and its profound commitment to equity, highlighted by their strategic acquisitions (like Triplebyte and Byteboard) and the "Brilliant Black Minds" program, effectively transforming how the tech industry identifies and hires elite engineering talent at scale.