Oyster, a US-headquartered software-based employment platform designed to fix the broken international hiring model, announced that it has completed the acquisition of Carrom, a player in the cross-border hiring enablement space. Financial details of the deal remain undisclosed.
Post acquisition, Carrom founder and CEO Sooraj Chandran will join the Oyster product team to lead and accelerate the geographic expansion of the Oyster platform.
“We are thrilled to join forces with Carrom,” said Tony Jamous, CEO of Oyster. “The acquisition of Carrom will enable Oyster to accelerate the global reach of our platform and further enlarge the accessible talent pool for our customers, as well as bring employment opportunities to new parts of the world. Sooraj brings a wealth of knowledge from his experience creating Carrom, and is certain to have a great impact on our mission to remove the barriers to global employment.”
Carrom was founded in 2018 in Germany by Keerthi Jayadevan and Sooraj Chandran. In his new role in product management at Oyster, Chandran will work at the intersection of geographic expansion and software experience, accelerating the availability of Oyster’s employment services in new parts of the world.
“Oyster is focused on fixing the broken cross-border hiring model, which remains complex, expensive, and risky for the majority of companies. As distributed teams and remote working become the new normal in a post-coronavirus world, growing companies as well as talented individuals have an unprecedented opportunity to broaden their horizons. Oyster is bringing them together,” the company said in its press release.
Oyster is on a mission to remove the barriers to global employment. Founded in 2019 by Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, Oyster is itself a fully remote company with a diverse, globally-distributed team.
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