Uplimit, a leader in AI-based enterprise learning, announced that it has closed an $11 million Series A funding round to support its ongoing investment in delivering high-quality enterprise teaching and learning at scale. The funding from Salesforce Ventures, which led the round along with existing investors GSV Ventures, Greylock Partners, and Cowboy Ventures, and new investors Translink Capital, Workday Ventures, and Conviction, highlights the need for effective employee upskilling solutions due to the accelerating pace of GenAI’s influence on the future of work.
Quality education traditionally required many services, from creating content to providing personalized feedback and support. Dependence on those services has made it difficult to scale engaging learning experiences. While scalable, courses that strip out those services often fail to deliver outcomes.
Uplimit addresses this tradeoff with a new approach to scaling effective enterprise education. Their end-to-end solution uses AI to supercharge cohort management, learner support, and authoring, enabling companies to enable customers and employees without having to choose between impact and scale. For example, Uplimit also recently launched role-play scenarios with an AI partner and learners now receive immediate feedback based on parameters set by an instructor. This tool could completely transform training and development for people managers, staff, support teams, sales, etc.
Uplimit partnered with companies ranging from Fortune 500s, like GE Healthcare and Kraft Heinz, to startups, like Procore, to power effective employee and customer education at scale. And Databricks, the leading AI-powered data intelligence platform, was an early adopter of Uplimit’s customer education solutions.
With this funding round, Uplimit will expand its enterprise and customer education offerings and build on current AI features, including cohort management tools, rapid aggregation and implementation of course feedback, interactive practice and assessment modules, and AI-powered course authoring.
KEY QUOTES:
“Keeping employees ahead of the technology curve has become an urgent priority for the organizations we work with. We believe AI can help both companies and individuals build the skills they need to thrive in this environment, and Uplimit is on the cutting edge when it comes to integrating AI into teaching and learning. We’re thrilled to support their continued growth and look forward to seeing their impact multiply in the coming years.”
- Claudine Emeott, Salesforce Ventures Partner and Head of the Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund
“Quality education has always been a scarce resource, but AI is finally changing that. AI allows us to create and update content in hours rather than weeks or months. Even in a course with thousands of learners, we can provide the level of personalization that’s necessary to keep each learner engaged and motivated. This shift is even more important given how AI itself is driving increased demand for skill-building. AI technology is evolving at breakneck speed and completely changing how work is done, and employees need a way to grasp it quickly with resources that meet them where they are. That’s what Uplimit provides.”
- Julia Stiglitz, CEO and Co-founder of Uplimit
“We were looking for a blended learning platform that would maximize learner engagement and completion without sacrificing the ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of learners. Uplimit ticked all the boxes. Learners get the benefit of real-time human instruction alongside personalized AI support. They also get advice, insight, and encouragement from peers across industries and functions. I genuinely believe this is going to be a game-changer for so many of our customers.”
- Rochana Golani, VP of Learning and Enablement at Databricks
