Scholé AI, an AI native workforce learning platform, has raised $3 million in funding to expand deployments, hire, and continue building its adaptive learning product. The round was led by ACE Ventures with participation from The House Fund and FundF.
The company is positioning its platform as a response to a common enterprise challenge: organizations are rolling out AI tools quickly, but employees often lack training that is timely, practical, and tailored to their actual day-to-day work. Scholé AI says its approach replaces static courses with an agentic learning engine that delivers short, interactive lessons personalized to a learner’s role, tools, and tasks, while staying grounded in a company’s internal workflows and materials. As learners progress, the platform adjusts difficulty, lesson format, and learning preferences in real time.
Scholé AI was founded by CEO and co-founder Dr. Vinitra Swamy and CTO and co-founder Dr. Paola Mejia, who recently completed PhDs at EPFL’s Machine Learning for Education lab and have more than a decade of experience in AI-driven education. The company says it spun out of research conducted at EPFL and UC Berkeley, with the founders translating academic work into an enterprise-focused product.
A key early use case is closing the AI skills gap by teaching employees how to apply AI in their daily work. Scholé also says it has partnered with Harvard to co-develop AI-intensive courses and that learners from hundreds of global companies, including Bank of America, NASA, Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple, are currently learning on its platform. According to the company, the program was recently recognized by Forbes as the best way to learn about AI agents for 2026. In Switzerland, Scholé is piloting its personalized learning solution with enterprises including Swisscom, Decathlon, and Coop.
ACE Ventures partner Steve Salom said the investment reflects confidence in the team’s technical depth in machine learning for education and its ability to translate that expertise into a practical product for enterprises seeking measurable AI adoption. With the new capital, Scholé AI says it plans to help organizations move from AI experimentation to productivity gains by ensuring employees can learn and adapt as the technology evolves.
KEY QUOTES
“While AI adoption is accelerating, learning has remained largely static. A few decades ago, the internet democratized access to knowledge, and anyone could find answers with a click of a button. Today we’re on the cusp of a similar moment with AI and learning, where every lifelong learner can have the teacher that’s exactly right for them. No more one-size-fits-all training. That’s the future of learning, and that’s what we’re building at Scholé.”
Vinitra Swamy, CEO and co-founder, Scholé AI
“We’re proud to lead Scholé’s round. The team combines deep ML-for-education expertise with practical product experience. Scholé’s AI-native, role-specific learning is a game changer for closing the frontline adoption gap, delivering context-aware training in the flow of work.”
Steve Salom, Partner, ACE Ventures
