COMPANY PROFILE · UPDATED 18 NOV 2025

Oyster

Oyster offers software solutions and services for automated forms processing & data entry with OCR, ICR, OMR, bar codes and key from images.

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Founded: 1996
Headcount: 185
Open roles: 2
Last raised: Series A · Sign in to view

TECH STACK

How Oyster builds

LEADERSHIP

Founders & key people

Willem Van Lancker

Co-founder and Chief Product Office of ebooks company Oyster

Thrive CapitalThe Browser CompanyOysterGoogleDesigner FundCore77Rhode Island School of DesignMoses Brown SchoolBrown University

Andrew Brown

CEO at Check

CheckGoogleOysterMicrosoft CorporationDuke UniversityPhillips Exeter Academy

Eric Stromberg

Founder at Check

BedrockCheckUniverse SoftwareBedrock Capital GPThirty MadisonGoogleDuke University

OPEN ROLES

Hiring at Oyster

FUNDING

Capital raised

Total raised

$17,000,000

Investors

Sv Angel Founders Fund Founder Collective

Funding rounds

Series A
$14MJan 14, 2014
Series A
Highland Capital Partners, Founders Fund, Founder Collective, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Advancit Capital
$14MJan 13, 2014
Seed
$3MOct 11, 2012
Seed
Founders Fund, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Founder Collective, Chris Dixon, Advancit Capital, Benjamin Ling, Brainchild Holdings, Sam Altman
$3MOct 10, 2012

Funding data via Diffbot

Categorized in

Industry

Developer Tools & Infrastructure Data Infrastructure & Analytics

Investors

Sv Angel Founders Fund Founder Collective

Industries

Media And Information Companies Educational Organizations

Tech Stack

Python React Amazon Web Services Node.js C++Scala Google Cloud Platform Java Nodejs

LOCATIONS

Where they work

Oyster Headquarters Location

New York, NY, 11217

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