Seattle technical recruiting startup Karat ranked the top cities around the world for hiring the best software engineers, and Seattle ranks at or near the top in two different categories,… Read More
Seattle technical recruiting startup Karat is laying off 47 employees for the second time this year, part of an effort to restructure various organizations within the company and make progress… Read More
The Pacific Northwest is home to countless people applying technology to good causes and working to improve the sector, our community and the world. This year, we’re excited to celebrate… Read More
As a middle school student in the small Mississippi town of Collinsville, Crystal Moore would spend lunch in her school’s computer lab. She also observed first-hand some of the barriers… Read More
Karat, the Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, has laid off 47 employees, citing the need to sharpen its business focus as it continues to grow. “We are… Read More
— Karat, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, hired Crystal Moore as its new vice president of Brilliant Black Minds, a program that aims to double the number of… Read More
— Seattle tech vet Marcelo Calbucci is heading to Amazon after a 4-year stint as CTO at Whitepages spinout Hiya. Calbucci is joining Amazon’s People Experience Team. He told GeekWire that… Read More
After holding the GeekWire Awards virtually for the past two years, there was a feeling of real catharsis Thursday evening as hundreds of people streamed through the doors of the… Read More
Tennis star Serena Williams has made an investment in Karat, the Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews. While a dollar amount was not shared by the company on… Read More
The Seattle startup scene has been sizzling, and there are several up-and-coming companies are headed on a path toward becoming industry giants. Five of those fast-growing superstars are finalists for… Read More
Editor’s note: This post has been updated to add startups that were not initially included in the list. Icertis’ valuation was also updated. Another day, another unicorn spotting. These once… Read More
The news: Karat, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, raised a $110 million Series C round at a $1.1 billion valuation. It’s the latest Seattle tech company to… Read More
— Seattle startup Karat added a new board member and vice president of interview delivery. Twitch Chief Operating Officer Sara Clemens has been added to Karat’s independent advisory board. Prior… Read More
— Seattle startup Qumulo named Janine Corey as its cloud chief technology officer. Corey spent the past five years at Amazon Web Services, most recently leading the transformation team for… Read More
— Microsoft named former GE executive Tom McGuinness corporate vice president of healthcare. At GE, McGuinness was president and CEO of GE Healthcare Imaging which offers imaging technologies, analytics and… Read More
Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. That’s how the National Venture Capital Association kicks off a new report detailing how the coronavirus will impact startups in… Read More
Editor’s note: The GeekWire Awards are now virtual on July 23. Watch live below. The technology that we interact with on a daily basis relies on design that can help… Read More
Zach van Schouwen, vice president of engineering for Karat, landed his job through a Craigslist ad. It was 2016 and he was on sabbatical, living in Brooklyn in New York… Read More
As partners from top tech investment firm Tiger Global Management attended recent board meetings, they kept hearing about a small startup out of Seattle that was helping executives hire engineers.… Read More
Karat has named John Besteman as its senior vice president of sales. Besteman earlier ran sales teams at Forrester Research and Gartner. Karat, which conducts first-round technical interviews for software engineers… Read More
Before Mo Bhende and Jeff Spector decided to go all-in on a startup idea, they took a little trip around America. It was a six-month market research project of sorts,… Read More