Oyster
oysterhr.com
Staffing · EOR
Actively hiring
HR & Payroll Software
Employer of Record & PEO
Payroll Services
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$59M
1 round on record
Latest round
$59M
Series D · Sep 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
19
+10 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Endeavor, G2VP
The money's age
Long since its last round
25 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
46/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Sep 4, 2024
Raised a round Series D $59M · TechCrunch
Nov 18, 2020
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Hire, pay, and give great benefits to your remote team
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | Sep 2024 | $59M | — | TechCrunch |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Endeavor 
G2VP 
Acadian Ventures 
Atento Capital 
Connect Ventures 
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Overview
Oyster is a global HR and talent management platform that enables companies to seamlessly hire, pay, and manage distributed teams around the world. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, the remote-first enterprise provides compliant employer-of-record (EOR) services, global payroll, and international employee benefits. Its centralized platform simplifies cross-border hiring while helping businesses navigate complex local tax, legal, and visa compliance requirements.
News
In 2007, the U.S. dumped 500,000 tons of oyster shells into the ocean: Nearly two decades later, they have created a thriving habitat for thousands of marine species
The long-term restoration project was designed to rebuild damaged marine ecosystems, and the results are now becoming clear.
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Global Employment At Scale: Oyster Founder Tony Jamous Explains
The EOR market is growing quickly and Oyster is now a major player. Tony Jamous, founder, explains what's unique about this space.
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New mega RNA virus may hold the key to mass oyster die-offs
UBC researchers uncover a massive new RNA virus in farmed Pacific oysters during a mass die-off in B.C., Canada.
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Australian oysters' blood could hold key to fighting drug-resistant superbugs, researchers find
Protein found in Sydney rock oysters' haemolymph can kill bacteria and boost some antibiotics' effectiveness, scientists discover
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Oysters as large as cheese plates: How New Yorkers are reclaiming their harbour's heritage
Over the course of 10 years, the Billion Oyster Project, one of New York's most ambitious rewilding initiatives, has planted 150 million larvae in its harbour. Did it work?
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ODYSSEE: Oyster Detection Yielded by Sensor Systems on Edge Electronics
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2409.07003: ODYSSEE: Oyster Detection Yielded by Sensor Systems on Edge Electronics
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Oyster over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
40
Postings analysed
15
Stack modernity
75/100AI adopter
Languages
Python20%
SQL20%
JavaScript13%
Ruby7%
Frameworks & libraries
LangChain7%
LangGraph7%
Ruby on Rails7%
Databases
Snowflake7%
Cloud & platforms
AWS13%
AWS Bedrock7%
Databricks7%
Datadog7%
LocalAI7%
Looker7%
Sentry7%
Heroku7%
Developer tools
Model Context Protocol20%
Microsoft Excel13%
Terraform7%
dbt7%
AI & ML
LLM20%
Practices & domains
AI Agents27%
RAG27%
SLI/SLO/SLA20%
Agentic Workflows13%
Platform Engineering13%
CI/CD7%
Context Engineering7%
Embeddings7%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$49k
Typical range
$41k – $56k
Open positions
2
2
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 2 | $49k | $41k – $56k |
Highest paying role
Senior Global Benefits Specialist
$56k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
74/100
Growing
Open positions
19
5 opened / 12 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
35 days
faster than 36% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Finance
57% ▼
Sales
10% ▲
Solutions
7% ▲
Data Science
3% ▼
Leadership
3% ▼
HR
3% ▲
Actively hiring for Finance (+5 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Chicago
Sep 2026
Added Zapier to stack
Sep 2026
Added n8n to stack
Sep 2026
Added JavaScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added HubSpot to stack
Sep 2026
Added Context Engineering to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Charlotte
Charlotte
United States
HQ
1 open roles 100% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Customer Success
Jobs
≈ $106k – $228k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EMEA, Canada) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Human-in-the-Loop
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≈ $82k – $188k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
SQL
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
RAG
Agentic Workflows
Management
n8n
Zapier
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≈ $64k – $164k per year (Estimated) • Remote (EMEA, Argentina, Brazil, Armenia, UTC-6 – UTC+3 hours) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
LangGraph
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
dbt
Embeddings
Function Calling
AI Agents
AWS Bedrock
LLM
RAG
Tool Use
DevOps
AWS
Platform Engineering
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≈ $113k – $254k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time
LocalAI
LLM
RAG
Semantic Search
Semantic Search
LLM Guardrails
Machine Learning
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Financials
Total raised
$59M
Latest round
Series D
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | 2024 | $59M | $1.2B | Details |