Meet the companies building the future of human capital development. 
Our investment thesis
AI is reshaping work – fully automating some jobs, changing others and creating totally new ones. People need to adapt quickly or risk being left behind. We invest in companies that help people unlock their potential, by providing the tools, skills and confidence to thrive in this new world.
Work
Companies in our “Work” segment break the silos between tech and the rest of the world by building easy-to-use tools that enable people in all professions to collaborate with AI. This will eliminate repetitive, dull work and free people to spend time on high-value tasks like innovation, decision-making and managing risk.
What They Do
Causaly reduces the time it takes to create a hypothesis in biomedicine.
Why This Matters
Causaly uses NLP to identify causal relationships in published research data. They remove the need to trawl through research papers guided only by keywords, and significantly accelerate the time it takes to do a literature review.
Co-investor
Index Ventures, Marathon Venture Capital, Pentech
What They Do
Modern Relay builds coordination infrastructure for enterprise AI – a context graph, agent coordination layer and governance framework that lets companies orchestrate AI workflows on infrastructure they own and control.
Why This Matters
As AI agents become real operators inside enterprises, companies need a shared layer to provide context, coordinate workflows and govern agent behaviour, but they don’t want that layer locked inside someone else’s application. Modern Relay sits beneath the model and application layers, providing the coordination and governance substrate that enterprises increasingly need to build and control internally.
Co-investor
Point Nine
What They Do
Rig is building a data context and automation layer that helps business teams work with complex internal data, making it accessible, actionable and ready for AI.
Why This Matters
As enterprises deploy AI across their operations, the bottleneck is rarely the model – it’s the data underneath. Most internal data sits fragmented across warehouses and systems, making it hard for teams to find what they need, let alone build automations on top of it. Rig provides the context layer that bridges this gap, turning messy enterprise data into structured, AI-ready infrastructure that operational teams can actually use.
What They Do
Mendo is a GenAI adoption layer for large organisations, embedding directly into the AI tools teams already use – Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude – to drive structured adoption, measure impact and scale agent deployment across the enterprise.
Why This Matters
Most enterprises have deployed GenAI licenses but struggle to turn them into real productivity gains. Mendo closes this gap by guiding usage in the flow of work, surfacing high-impact use cases by role and giving leadership visibility into what’s actually working, turning scattered experimentation into measurable organisational capability.
Co-investor
TomCat Ventures
What They Do
5U AI builds logistics-trained AI workers that run freight forwarding operations from inside existing systems – handling quoting, bookings, shipment tracking, invoice reconciliation and data entry across air, sea and road freight.
Why This Matters
Every container and air waybill that crosses a border passes through a freight forwarder, but the work itself – moving information between an inbox and a transport management system, all day – has never been automated. Three in four logistics employers cannot fill open roles, and net margins of 2–10% leave no room to hire their way out. 5U gives forwarders the AI workforce they cannot recruit, and its Context Layer captures the reasoning behind every decision.
Co-investor
Inari VC, senior logistics operators (ex-DHL, GEODIS, DSV, Maersk, CEVA)
What They Do
Colossyan enables users to create training videos from text using AI.
Why This Matters
Colossyan sidesteps the traditional video creation process, removing the need for cameras, studios, and conventional actors. Colossyan’s approach cuts down the time necessary to create videos from weeks to minutes.
Co-investor
LAUNCHUB Ventures
What They Do
[Unannounced] is an AI-powered IP brokerage that connects companies with innovators holding valuable technologies. We support the full path from discovery to commercial deployment, acting as a bridge between research, startups and industry. Our focus is on technologies that solve real operational problems and have a credible path to market, not just academic novelty.
Why This Matters
Trillions of dollars in breakthrough innovation are not easily accessible. Many high-quality technologies remain hidden in universities or early-stage companies. Meanwhile, corporations and investors struggle with fragmented networks, slow scouting and noisy deal flow, causing them to miss technologies that could transform products or accelerate R&D. [Unannounced] exists to make external innovation that was previously only navigable by specialists easier to find, easier to evaluate and easier to act on.
What They Do
Kinfolk is an HR Ops co-pilot, orchestrating critical workflows to drive productivity for HR and employees from hire to exit.
Why This Matters
Despite core HR systems, HR teams waste hours on repetitive tasks, from ramping up new hires to levelling up existing managers and teams. With Kinfolk, HR Ops teams automate timely knowledge exchange, meetings and actions, via Slack/Teams, emails, calendars, and microsites.
Co-investor
Ascension
What They Do
Lynx Educate is a pioneer in connecting leading education institutions with European companies to upskill employees through accredited and certified programs.
Why This Matters
Today’s labour market demands better-educated employees. Companies are struggling to attract, develop and retain workers with the right skills. Lynx Educate works with companies to identify their needs and connect them to leading educational institutions.
Co-investor
Rethink Education, Brighteye Ventures, Bisk Ventures, Reach Capital, Guild Education
What They Do
Sparkwise is a multiplayer learning platform where professionals master skills together, through interactive group challenges, available on demand.
Why This Matters
Traditional online learning struggles to deliver impact at scale. Solve for scale, and you’re left with click-click software people dread. Solve for impact, and you need a people-heavy model that is expensive to scale. Sparkwise makes it possible to massively scale active learning in groups, with smart technology that removes the need for live instructors.
Co-investor
Vitalize VC
Navigate
Companies in our “Navigate” segment work with both employers and candidates, using AI to improve the efficiency and quality of some of life’s most important decisions: who we work with.
What They Do
Huzzle is an AI-enabled talent marketplace that matches skilled professionals from emerging economies with full-time remote roles – starting with sales as the wedge into broader talent categories.
Why This Matters
74% of employers say they can’t find the talent they need, yet 402 million people still hunt for meaningful work. In countries like South Africa, youth unemployment is over 50%, while businesses in the US and UK struggle to fill critical roles. Huzzle connects overlooked talent in emerging markets with global companies – tackling unemployment and raising incomes at scale.
Co-investor
10X Founders, Angel Investors
What They Do
Zavvy is a learning platform enabling companies to automate impactful onboarding and training experiences.
Why This Matters
To stay competitive, companies have to ensure their employees continuously learn and develop. However, setting up and maintaining effective learning initiatives requires a lot of manual effort. Automating elaborate onboarding and training workflows, Zavvy enables HR and L&D teams to deliver engaging learning experiences at a fraction of the regular time and cost.
Co-investor
La Famiglia VC, Picus Capital
What They Do
Today, engaging top talent quickly is critical. Popp AI automates candidate engagement and accelerates recruitment operations to streamline job-seeking and ensure recruitment teams can focus on building relationships that matter.
Why This Matters
Popp AI revolutionises recruitment by automating candidate screening, shortlisting, and engagement through AI, significantly reducing hiring time and bias. Its ability to handle large-scale candidate interactions and generate data-driven insights allows recruiters to focus on strategic tasks, making it an exciting investment for transforming the efficiency and personalisation of hiring.
Co-investor
SuperSeed
What They Do
VARM is building the European Champion for Insulation by creating a scalable, continent-wide infrastructure with hyper-local insulation hubs.
Why This Matters
Across the EU, 3/4 of all buildings are energy inefficient, while the built sector causes over 33% of energy-related emissions. VARM is on its mission to insulate 1 million houses in 10 years. Through their business-in-a-box solution, they recruit, train and empower local installers to run their own insulation companies.
Co-investor
Pale Blue Dot, noa, Foundamental, Angel Investors
What They Do
FutureFit AI partners with organisations and governments to provide workers with an AI-powered tool to help them navigate their careers.
Why This Matters
FutureFit AI’s “GPS for your Career” uses advanced labour market data and machine learning algorithms to identify an individual’s ‘starting point’ in the labour market, recommend best fit career path ‘destinations’, and build a personalised roadmap of learning, resources, and work opportunities to successfully guide them from point A to point B.
Co-investor
JPMorgan Chase, Acumen America
What They Do
SkillsTrust is an innovative employment assessment provider that specialises in high-fidelity work sample tests to validate job skills.
Why This Matters
Finding skilled talent is a major challenge for employers globally. Top companies are increasingly prioritising skills over academic degrees in their hiring processes. Despite this shift, a major hurdle persists: the ability to validate those skills fairly, accurately and at scale. SkillsTrust assists employers in identifying capable talent with the necessary skills to drive productivity, using scalable work sample testing.
Co-investor
Rethink Education
What They Do
Project-based online education platform for Latin American and Spanish creative professionals.
Why This Matters
The absolute majority of courses online are in English. This means that most of the world’s population has no access to them. Crehana’s Spanish courses make project-based learning a reality for digital professionals in Latin America and demonstrably improve their job prospects.
Co-investor
General Atlantic, Howzat Partners, Rethink Education
Learn
Companies in our “Learn” segment catalyse huge improvements in education at all levels by making personalised learning accessible to every learner at near-zero marginal cost.
What They Do
Yoto is a clever speaker for kids that provides screen-free access to a rich library of curated audio content.
Why This Matters
Parents are increasingly concerned about the effect of screen use on young children. Yoto gives kids control over what songs, stories or learning content they listen to and when, with a carefully curated library of cards that adapts and grows with children over time.
Co-investor
Acton Capital, Global Founders Capital
What They Do
Edurino makes digital education tangible with an adaptive learning app, real figurines and an ergonomic stylus.
Why This Matters
Edurino is building the bridge between analogue and digital learning to teach children the 21st century skills they will need to shape the future. Learning experiences adapt to each child’s individual speed and parents are provided with full transparency.
Co-investor
BTOV, DN Capital
What They Do
Mattilda is a B2B SaaS financial solution aimed at disrupting private schools’ financial management and administrative processes.
Why This Matters
Mattilda’s SaaS solution automates schools’ administrative and collections processes. The company’s tech solution coupled with its tuition factoring and cash flow-based lending products empower schools to achieve their potential and focus on what they do best.
Co-investor
QED Investors, DILA Capital, GSV Ventures, Picus Capital
What They Do
Solvely.ai develops AI agents for learning to deliver adaptive, personalised and joyful education.
Why This Matters
Personalised education is expensive and inaccessible. Traditional teaching doesn’t adapt, and existing AI tools confuse with generic explanations. Solvely.ai democratises high-quality education by offering adaptive guidance and personalised feedback through AI agents, inspiring every human mind to reach its potential.
Co-investor
Basis Set Ventures
What They Do
MyEdSpace is forming a new category of education: influencer-led social learning. MyEdSpace turns the best teachers into social superstars who then deliver structured online courses via 1-many live lessons, covering the whole school curriculum.
Why This Matters
The traditional educational system is chronically underfunded and not scalable. Private tuition is too expensive for most of the population. Students lack a viable alternative. MyEdSpace offers the solution by providing a 10x better quality of education at a fraction of the cost.
What They Do
Songscription uses AI to convert any audio into accurate, editable music notation, MIDI, and piano roll tailored to any instrument and skill level. They started with piano and have beta versions of violin, flute, guitar, vocals, trumpet, drums and saxophone available too.
Why This Matters
The vast majority of the world’s music has never been formally transcribed, and what exists is either expensive, limited in coverage, or low-quality user-generated content. With 630 million+ instrument players globally — most of them beginners — there is enormous unmet demand for accessible, high-quality notation. Songscription’s custom transformer models remove the bottleneck of manual transcription, letting any musician play any song, regardless of whether it was ever published as sheet music
Co-investor
Reach Capital
What They Do
Algor uses AI to transform text, recordings and images into engaging visual learning materials, such as dynamic presentations and intuitive mindmaps.
Why This Matters
Algor is pioneering the future of education with AI-driven tools that provide hyper-personalised learning experiences, by converting diverse content into visual formats tailored to individual learning styles. Their technology not only caters to visual learners but also enhances overall comprehension and engagement, making learning more accessible, effective and enjoyable.
Co-investor
Club degli Investitori, Gustaf Nordbäck, 40Jemz
What They Do
Wonde provides a secure and streamlined platform for schools to safeguard and integrate their data with educational applications, ensuring data is utilised to power classroom learning.
Why This Matters
Schools are increasingly adopting digital tools to enhance learning, but managing multiple applications and student data can be complex and time-consuming. Wonde centralises these processes, ensuring data security, saving valuable time and reducing administrative load. This allows teachers and administrators to focus more on supporting students and less on managing technology, leading to a more efficient and enriched educational experience.
What They Do
FourthRev connects leading companies and universities to deliver up-to-date, industry-relevant programs.
Why This Matters
FourthRev builds courses with industry partners like AWS, Salesforce, Xero and Tableau, and then partners with universities to validate and deliver these courses to students, helping address the global shortage of tech skills.
Co-investor
Educapital, Reach Capital
What They Do
Unibuddy connects prospective students with university student ambassadors online.
Why This Matters
Unibuddy changes the way universities attract, inform and recruit students by placing peer-to-peer interactions at the core of their admission process.
Co-investor
Stride.VC
What They Do
Mentor Collective enables universities to provide mentorship throughout the student lifecycle.
Why This Matters
Many students struggle to forge the longlasting relationships that drive student success and open doors. Many institutions support small pockets of high-impact mentorship, but these programmes are rarely able to support hundreds of students, let alone thousands. Mentor Collective enables them to deliver mentorship at scale.
Co-investor
Resolve Growth Partners, Lumina Foundation, Rethink Education
What They Do
The remote-first Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences allows learners to build the 21st-century skills needed in the areas of sustainability, entrepreneurship and technology.
Why This Matters
As the need for future skills changes rapidly, universities are failing to adapt. Tomorrow University combines state-of-the-art learning science and technology to create flexible, accessible and effective learning experiences that equip learners with the key ingredients for impact: purpose, capability and community.
What They Do
BibliU makes learning more effective – a digital education platform that brings textbooks to life, delivering digital textbooks to universities in the UK, US, Europe and Asia.
Why This Matters
BibliU is the only company that has partnerships with every major UK publisher along with full-text search across every book. Students end up spending twice as much time in BibliU as they do on Snapchat.
Co-investor
Nesta, Oxford Sciences Innovation
What They Do
Engageli delivers an inclusive digital learning platform for superior teaching and learning experiences that optimises student success.
Why This Matters
As learning moves online there is a need for an inclusive, social and data-driven engaging learning experience. Engageli gives instructors access to powerful active-learning features that support dynamic interaction for students.
Co-investor
BRM Capital, Alex Balkanski (Benchmark Capital)
What They Do
Cadmus is the world’s first authentic assessment for learning platform powering the delivery of summative, formative, and open-book exam styles for every academic discipline.
Why This Matters
Cadmus removes learning participation barriers by providing educators and diverse student cohorts with access to high-quality, pedagogical assessment anywhere, anytime.
What They Do
LearnWise is an AI-driven student experience platform that delivers personalised support both in and out of the classroom.
Why This Matters
Universities spend 40-60% of budgets on student and academic support, yet when students need help, they often face a confusing web of services that aren’t available after hours. With LearnWise, students have access to their own AI assistant, fully integrated into the LMS and student portal, available 24/7 to provide seamless, on-demand support.
Co-investor
Angel Investors
What They Do
KARRI offers a screen-free, data-enabled walkie-talkie for young children integrated for voice messaging and GPS tracking with a parent smartphone app.
Why This Matters
Societies realise we have over-protected young children in the offline world and under-protected them in the online world. By letting parents provide their children with freedom and independence to roam unsupervised outside, while still providing the peace-of-mind of staying in touch, the screen-free KARRI device is the alternative to giving young children smartphones.
Co-investor
468 Capital
What They Do
Enroly automates the compliance, visa and arrival process for universities, their international students and agents.
Why This Matters
Enroly’s technology is transforming the way universities recruit and onboard students by speeding up the administration process, automating conversion, and streamlining visa compliance. Enroly’s Data Insights platform has brought real-time reporting and aggregated international data to higher education for the first time.
Co-investor
Larsen Ventures, Charlotte Street Capital
What They Do
Eduflow is a tool to build incredible learning experiences, full of active participation and student collaboration.
Why This Matters
Learning is most effective when it involves active participation, a fact not always respected in an online environment. Keeping students accountable and involving them in the learning process means they will be more motivated, and less likely to drop out. Eduflow lets learners submit work, peer review and reflect on feedback.
Co-investor
Y Combinator, Nordic Makers, Project A, Learn Capital / Acquired
What They Do
LIS is building a new university that will give students the skills to go and tackle some of society’s most complex problems.
Why This Matters
Students will put their learnings to work through paid work placements at some of the UK’s top organisations including Virgin, McKinsey and the Met Police. The LIS curriculum cuts across disciplinary boundaries, equipping students with knowledge and methods from across the arts, sciences and humanities.
Co-investor
JamJar, Andrew Mullinger (Funding Circle)
What They Do
Kuddl provides individuals and couples with personalised relationship tips and activities based on personality insights, fostering deeper connections and enhanced communication.
Why This Matters
Kuddl’s approach, based on studies and relationship therapy, delivers tailored tips and education, transforming how couples understand and improve their relationships with engaging, actionable guidance for a healthier connection.
Co-investor
Angel Investors
What They Do
FoondaMate is a “Personal Assistant for learning” on WhatsApp and Facebook messenger, for students previously unable to use the internet to study.
Why This Matters
FoondaMate is unlocking internet-enabled learning for students in emerging markets. Their low data and chat-first applications come in multiple regional languages and popular chat applications like WhatsApp and Facebook messenger. This enables a student to download study material and get answers to questions while studying.
Co-investor
LocalGlobe
What They Do
StudyStream is a video platform and online community that allows students to study with others from around the world 24/7 and in real-time.
Why This Matters
StudyStream has helped more than 3 million students be more productive & motivated, while also feeling less isolated. Their mission is to create a global community of students who can motivate each other to succeed.
Co-investor
LocalGlobe, Brighteye Ventures, Y Combinator
What They Do
Niyyah is the go-to education app for Muslims that provides authentic, structured and practical guidance to help Muslims get closer to God in less than five minutes each day.
Why This Matters
With Christian platforms such as Glorify and Hallow reaching millions of users and each raising >$40m in the last two years alone, there is a significant untapped market opportunity for the audience of >2 billion Muslims worldwide.
Co-investor
Ada Ventures, Collective Continuum, Angels
What They Do
Aula is the learning experience platform for higher education, a modern alternative to learning management systems.
Why This Matters
Ubiquitous and clunky learning management systems focus on record-keeping at the expense of the learning experience. Aula’s conversational platform and ecosystem of integrations makes communication the lynchpin of university study, improving student engagement and satisfaction.
Co-investor
Reach Capital, Brighteye Ventures, Project A
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