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Oyster

Global employment platform to hire, pay and manage distributed teams.

Founders

Tony Jamous (Lebanon · ♂) — Growing up in war-torn Beirut and then building and exiting Nexmo (acquired by Vonage) made him passionate about giving emerging-economy talent access to global jobs, which became Oyster.
Jack Mardack (United States · ♂) — After leading growth at Nexmo alongside Tony Jamous and a long interest in the future of work, he co-founded Oyster to help companies hire distributed teams.

Team & hubs

People & leadership

pramod sathe Owner, oysterClare Godfrey PA to CEO at Oyster™Nirwan Aloka Business Owner at OysterRajshikhar Mishra Business Owner at Oyster®Jack Mardack Cofounder at Oyster® | Impact Entrepreneur Amanda Blackstock Senior Customer Success Manager @ Oyster® | Business Owner @ Panda Yarns | Student

In the network

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Bedrock Robotics 2 Hopin 2 You.com 2

Funding history

Date	Round	Amount
Sep 2024	Series D Plus Oyster raised a $59M Series D led by Silver Lake Waterman at a $1.2B valuation to expand its global employment platform.	$59M
May 2022	Series C London HR-tech Oyster raised a 150M dollar Series C led by Georgian, with Salesforce Ventures and LinkedIn, reaching unicorn status.	$137.8M
Jun 2021	Series B HR platform Oyster (London/San Francisco) raised a $50M Series B led by Stripes at a $475M valuation, with Emergence Capital, The Slack Fund and Avid Ventures.	$50M

Investors

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Avid Ventures Emergence Capital Georgian LinkedIn Okta Salesforce Ventures Silver Lake Waterman Stripes The Slack Fund

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