We are excited to announce that Simera has acquired Talent Sam, marking a major milestone in the evolution of global hiring and workforce management.
This acquisition brings together two companies with a shared vision: making global hiring seamless, scalable, and technology-driven.
Who is Simera?
Simera is building an AI-driven platform designed to simplify every stage of global hiring and workforce management. The company enables businesses to source, evaluate, onboard, pay, and support international talent through a single unified platform.
At the core of Simera’s platform is a powerful candidate data layer and Universal Professional Key (SPK), which helps companies make more informed hiring decisions, validate skills, and streamline workforce operations globally.
By combining AI-powered infrastructure with deep operational expertise, Simera is redefining how modern companies build distributed teams.
Panos Bethanis, Executive Chairman of Simera, said,
“We’re thrilled to welcome Talent Sam’s founders – Milan Levy, Michael Bassin, and Daniel Schwartz – to the Simera team.
These visionary builders bring exceptional technical and operational expertise. Having scaled multiple businesses, they engineered a sophisticated, data-driven talent operating model that delivers rigorously vetted South African professionals to global companies.
Their playbook has already helped more than 120 companies scale faster while significantly reducing hiring costs. Together with Simera’s candidate data layer and Universal Professional Key (SPK), their expertise will further strengthen our platform’s validated skills data, semantic matching intelligence, and end-to-end hiring infrastructure.”
About Talent Sam
Founded with the mission of connecting exceptional South African talent with companies across North America and Europe, Talent Sam has built a reputation for high-quality, ethical global employment solutions. By combining recruiting, legal employment, HR support, equipment provisioning, and IT services under one roof, Talent Sam has helped hundreds of companies scale international teams with confidence.
A new chapter
As part of the acquisition, Talent Sam’s leadership team will join Simera in strategic roles to help accelerate the company’s next phase of growth.
Milan Levy will join Simera as Chief Revenue Officer, while Michael Bassin will join as SVP of Sales. Daniel Schwartz will also join Simera as part of the leadership team, helping drive the company’s continued growth and expansion.
Milan Levy, Co-Founder of Talent Sam, said,
“This is an incredibly exciting moment for Talent Sam and for everyone who has been part of our journey. Over the past few years, we’ve built a business focused on helping companies access exceptional international talent while creating meaningful opportunities for professionals across South Africa.
Joining forces with Simera allows us to take that mission even further. Together, we’re building a truly end-to-end, AI-driven platform that will transform how companies find, hire, and manage talent globally. We’re deeply grateful to our team, clients, partners, and employees who made this milestone possible.”
Daniel Schwartz, Co-Founder of Talent Sam, said,
“The past three years building Talent Sam have been nothing short of incredible. Together, we’ve helped hundreds of talented people land great roles and supported amazing companies as they scaled internationally. I’m hugely proud of what we built and the impact we’ve had.
But I’ve always believed there was an opportunity to go even bigger. Talent Sam delivered a powerful service, but the future of hiring needs technology that can truly transform how companies access and manage global talent at scale.
That’s exactly why joining Simera is the natural next step. We’re building a platform that gives companies instant access to exceptional global talent and the ability to contract, onboard, and manage them seamlessly in one place.
While there’s a lot of conversation around AI replacing jobs, we see AI as a tool to unlock opportunity – connecting great businesses with great people faster and more effectively than ever before.”
Michael Bassin, Co-Founder of Talent Sam, said,
“This feels like a full-circle moment. Over the years, we’ve worked closely with companies navigating the complexities of global hiring, and now we have the opportunity to help solve those challenges at an even greater scale.
Simera is building something truly transformative for the future of work, and I’m incredibly excited to join the team and help scale the platform globally.”
Together, Simera and Talent Sam will continue expanding access to world-class international talent while building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of global work.
This acquisition represents not just a milestone for both companies, but the beginning of a larger vision: creating a seamless, AI-powered operating system for global employment.
The teams at Simera and Talent Sam look forward to this next chapter and to continuing to deliver exceptional value to clients, partners, and talent around the world.
