Training All People (TAP), a workforce development platform focused on advanced manufacturing, has secured a new investment from Stand Together Ventures Lab, Cubit Capital, 8VC, and GSV Ventures. The company says the funding will accelerate its AI-powered approach to training, assessing, and deploying technical talent through immersive, simulation-based learning delivered via virtual reality, mobile devices, or web browsers.
TAP is positioning its platform around a growing workforce challenge in U.S. manufacturing: as older workers retire, employers face persistent gaps in hands-on technical readiness. The company is also pitching its product as a reskilling and upskilling tool for existing workers, emphasizing adaptive, AI-guided simulations that provide realistic practice for procedures and generate performance-based assessments that provide employers with objective signals of competency.
The company argues that traditional training is often slow, inconsistent, and expensive, and has limited ability to validate real-world skills in the hiring process. TAP says it addresses those constraints by offering repeatable simulations that can reduce the need for training on live equipment, along with a personalized AI coach designed to help trainees learn and prepare for interviews. The platform’s assessments are designed to measure performance directly rather than relying on interviews as a proxy for capability.
TAP says it is already in use across defense, manufacturing, and higher education. In one example, the company reported that Northrop Grumman employees improved their technical skills by 45%, and that learners at Austin Community College gained confidence and proficiency in technical interviews. The investors described the company as aligned with themes such as economic mobility, reindustrialization, and skills-based learning systems that deliver demonstrable outcomes for employers and workers.
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“At Stand Together Ventures Lab, we invest in solutions that unlock human potential and drive meaningful societal progress. TAP is a perfect fit for that thesis. They are addressing one of the most pressing problems in the U.S. economy, which is developing a workforce that is truly prepared for advanced manufacturing and they’re doing it with technology that is both scalable and proven. TAP’s AI-guided simulations deliver measurable performance improvement and give workers and employers confidence rooted in real data. That combination of innovation, scalability, and impact is exactly why we’re investing.”
Jonathan Jou, Managing Director, Head Of Investments, Stand Together Ventures Lab
“America is on the cusp of an industrial renaissance that will lift up millions of lives. TAP’s AI-enabled skills training will be an engine of this reindustrialization, helping companies develop and scale a talented workforce quickly and with confidence.”
Joe Lonsdale, Managing Partner, 8VC
“TAP’s platform helps America maintain its competitive edge in advanced manufacturing by solving one of the biggest barriers to innovation: the shortage of skilled technical talent. At Cubit, we invest at the intersection of frontier technologies and human flourishing, and TAP is an incredible example of a company advancing both. They’ve achieved significant traction in a short amount of time, and we’re excited to support their growth journey.”
Gui Hadlich, Partner, Cubit Capital
“GSV is proud to support TAP for delivering learning systems that produce demonstrable skills giving employers confidence and learners access to upward mobility.”
Debroah Quazzo, Managing Director, GSV Ventures
