ExecOnline Raises $45 Million for Online Leadership Development
ExecOnline announced a $45 million Series D round of venture capital funding for its online leadership development solutions. This brings its total raised to $87.7 million. ExecOnline partners with elite business schools like Berkeley Haas, Columbia, Stanford GSB, and...
Degreed Raises $153 Million for Its Learning and Upskilling Platform and Becomes Work Tech’s Latest Unicorn With a $1.4 Billion Valuation
Degreed became work tech's newest unicorn with a $153 million Series D round of venture capital for its learning and upskilling platform. This brings its total raised to $360.2 million. Degreed started as a hybrid consumer and corporate learning platform with a...
TREND NOTE: Spekit Raises $12.2 Million For Digital Adoption, Learning, and Joy
Spekit announced a $12.2 million Series A for its digital adoption and learning app. Learning has been disrupted more frequently than any other category in work tech. Rapid transformations in tech have finally, or at least more effectively, caught up with the science...
Datapeople Raises $3 Million for Equitable and Inclusive Recruiting Through Data
Datapeople, formerly TapRecruit, announced an additional $3 million of capital raised, bringing its total raised to $8 million. Datapeople provides job description and recruiter email optimization focusing on equity and inclusion, leveraging language analytics and...
Bunch Raises $1M for Its AI-powered Leadership Coach
Bunch announced a $1 million Seed round of venture capital for its AI-powered leadership coach. This brings its total raised to $4.4 million. Bunch offers vetted and curated "bite-sized chunks" of leadership knowledge and personalizes them for users on a daily basis,...
Lattice Raises $60 Million for Its Performance Management App and Becomes HR Tech Unicorn
Lattice announced a $60 million Series E Round of venture capital for its performance management app. This puts its total raised at $154 million. It also announced a new $1 billion valuation with the round, which edges the firm into "unicorn" territory. In its...
Rising Team Raises $3 Million to Combine Coaching and Learning
Rising Team announced a $3 million Seed Round of VC for its app that combines coaching and learning to create better managers. "The first layer of the platform is the tools suite, which includes proprietary assessments and 1:1 templates. Most employee surveys focus so...
Belgium-based Whale Raises USD $1.2 Million for Its Onboarding and Learning App for the SMB
Belgium-based Whale reported a USD $1.2 million Seed round of VC funding. Whale delivers "bite-sized" learning content via a browser extension. Providing guidance to employees with relevant context to the flow of work. The company focuses on small and medium sized...
Sweden-based Preactly raises USD $1.8 Million for Its Workplace Wellness-focused Surveys and Analytics
Sweden-based Preactly announced a USD $1.8 million Seed Round of venture capital for its employee surveys and analytics that focus on workplace health and employee wellness. Preactly reports to focus on 19 different work environment- related factors that affect...
Arist Raises $2M for Its SMS-based Learning
Arist announced an additional $2 million Seed Round funding for its SMS-based learning app. This brings its total raised to $4.1 million. In 2020 the learning category received USD $666 million in VC. It was one of the top three categories in the 2020 Global HR Tech...
Israel-based Centrical Raises USD $32M For Performance Management, MicroLearning, and Gamification
Israel-based Centrical announced a USD $32 million round of funding for its performance management, microlearning, and gamification. Performance management and learning are two of the most saturated categories in HR technology. They are also two categories...
TREND NOTE: Israel-based Retrain.ai Raises USD $9M for Its AI-powered Reskilling and Internal Mobility App
Isreal-based Retrain.ai announced a USD $9 million Series A for its talent reskilling and internal mobility app. This brings its total raised to $13 million. When Amazon announced its upskilling initiative in July of 2019, it cemented internal mobility and career...