# Karat: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/karat/
Covers: Aug. 7 to Dec. 10, 2025
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Karat: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/karat/, updated 2026-11-11

> Karat is on the AI hiring software map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Dec. 10, 2025.

Technical interviewing as a service for engineering executives. Karat's professional Interview Engineers run live technical interviews for employers. Its NextGen format, launched December 2025, is "the first human-led, AI-enabled talent evaluation solution": candidates build with an integrated AI assistant while human interviewers probe reasoning and judgment. Karat bought Byteboard in January 2025 and is a Workday Innovation Partner. It sells interviews, not software alone. Source: [karat.com](https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/).

## Facts

- Site: [karat.com](https://karat.com/)
- Category: Skills assessments
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-karat)

Technical interviewing as a service for engineering executives. Karat's professional Interview Engineers run live technical interviews for employers. Its NextGen format, launched December 2025, is "the first human-led, AI-enabled talent evaluation solution": candidates build with an integrated AI assistant while human interviewers probe reasoning and judgment. Karat bought Byteboard in January 2025 and is a Workday Innovation Partner. It sells interviews, not software alone. Source: [karat.com](https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/).

- Category: Skills assessments
- Price: not published; sales-led managed service
- AI capabilities: AI assessments
- Scale: Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (Series C $110M at $1.1B valuation led by Tiger Global (Oct 2021); dataset of 600,000+ interviews.)

Sources: [karat.com](https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/), [karat.com](https://karat.com/blog/category/news-events), [karat.com](https://karat.com/karat-expands-board-and-enterprise-partnerships/) and [thedailyupside.com](https://www.thedailyupside.com/tech-interviewing-startup-karat-hits-1-1b-unicorn-valuation).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### Karat launches NextGen human-led, AI-enabled interviews

Launch, Dec. 10, 2025. NextGen has candidates work with "an integrated AI assistant" while Karat Interview Engineers probe "reasoning, trade-offs, and judgment in real time," as a fully managed service.

Source: [Vendor release](https://karat.com/karat-launches-nextgen-interviews-the-first-human-led-ai-enabled-talent-evaluation-solution/). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-karat).

### Karat becomes a Workday Innovation Partner

Partnership, Aug. 7, 2025. Karat connected its platform to Workday's applicant tracking system as a Workday Innovation Partner and added two board members.

Source: [Vendor release](https://karat.com/karat-expands-board-and-enterprise-partnerships/). From [the AI hiring software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/hiring-software/#co-karat).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology