Ivee, an AI upskilling and talent platform startup, has raised a seven-figure seed round from Social Impact Enterprises and angels including Steven Bartlett, and partners from Dawn Capital and Balderton. It helps organisations train employees to use AI tools and access a network of AI-fluent talent. The funding will accelerate product development, expand the AI talent network, and deepen partnerships with employers and training providers across the UK and internationally.
AI investment has skyrocketed since 2023, with thousands of new tools entering the market. This has led to overwhelm and stalled adoption as employees hired before generative AI lack training to use these tools effectively. ivee addresses this by providing an AI upskilling platform and talent network that curates relevant AI tools, offers short practical lessons built around real tasks, and provides a framework to validate, track, and showcase AI skills.
Each user builds a dynamic AI Skills Profile that updates as they learn, giving leadership visibility into organisational capability and enabling access to AI-fluent candidates for recruitment. ivee’s talent network consists of more than 80,000 candidates with verified AI skills profiles, allowing employers to identify individuals with demonstrable AI fluency, including prompting, tool orchestration, automation workflows, and AI-native thinking.
The new funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand the AI talent network, and deepen partnerships with employers and training providers across the UK and internationally. The raise comes days after ivee was announced as the UK Government’s primary events partner for its £2bn AI Upskilling initiative.
Companies are investing in AI technology their workforce isn’t trained to use. Most employees were hired long before Gen AI even existed, so they don’t know how to effectively use AI, let alone the latest tools.
Our north star is simple: no one should be left behind as work changes. The way we learn has to match the speed of AI. ivee is built for continuous change - and change is one thing that's for sure in the age of AI.
