Sep 25, 2023

Lepaya , an Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based corporate EdTech provider, raised $38M in funding. The round was led by Endeit Capital and joined by Educapital, Mars Growth Capital, and Liquidity Capital, as well as the existing investors Target Global and Mediahuis Ventures. The company, which has raised USD 80m to date, intends to use the funds for development and go-to-market of the AI-driven capability development platform. Founded by René Janssen and Peter Kuperus in 2018, Lepaya is an upskilling solution that focuses on increasing talent retention and productivity through a combination of online, offline, and virtual reality training through an all-in-one capability platform. The company combines artificial and human intelligence to ensure that employees acquire the skills needed to remain effective and productive, in the flow of their daily work. With this new round Lepaya is making additional investments in AI tools such as AI-coach which will adjust the learning content to an individual learner’s context and career level. Further investments will be made to advance the skills data analysis so that the organizations and their leaders reach deeper skills intelligence on organizational and industry levels. Customers include global organizations such as Roche, ING, Microsoft, Dell, Freundenberg, Just-Eat-Take-away Maersk, KPMG, and other 2000 clients. Lepaya has made 4 acquisitions: SmartenUp (2020), vCoach (2022), SpeakFirst (2022) and Krauthammer (2023). FinSMEs