– USA, WA – Karat today announced the appointment of Teresa Carlson to its Board of Directors.
Her previous leadership roles at Splunk, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft will complement the broader strength of the existing board of industry veterans, including Karat co-founders Mohit Bhende and Jeffrey Spector, former Twitch COO Sara Clemens, and Parker Barrile, Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, who was previously VP of Product at LinkedIn.
The announcement comes at a time of significant growth for Karat. The company announced a $1.1B valuation in October 2021 following a Tiger Global-led Series C funding round of $110M from inside investors, including Norwest Venture Partners, 8VC, Exor, Base Partners, and Sempervirens Fund. The company has since brought on clients like Visa, Ford, BNY Mellon, Snap, Bloomberg, and Atlassian.
In April 2022, Karat announced that it has received a strategic investment from tennis champion Serena Williams to significantly scale the company’s Brilliant Black Minds program, which provides free technical interview practice and feedback to current and aspiring Black software engineers in the U.S. The investment has helped launch an industry-wide movement to help double the number of Black software engineers over the next decade.
About Teresa Carlson
Teresa Carlson most recently served as President and CGO of Splunk and VP for AWS’ worldwide public sector and industries businesses. She also held the role of Vice President for Federal Sales and Operations at Microsoft. Carlson currently serves as the non-executive chair of KnightSwan Acquisition Corporation, holds B.A. and M.S. degrees from Western Kentucky University, and has been a long-time advocate for bringing diverse skill sets into the tech industry.
About Karat
Karat created the world’s first Interviewing Cloud to solve the multi-decade global shortage of software engineers. The Interviewing Cloud is an always-on, scalable, and consistent human + tech solution for conducting predictive, fair, and enjoyable technical interviews 24/7. The fastest growing and largest enterprises such as Indeed, Wayfair, Roblox, American Express, Coinbase, and Intuit trust Karat to expand hiring capacity and unlock developer time so they can innovate and grow.
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