Esme Learning Solutions is a Boston-based AI-powered digital learning platform that delivers executive professional development in partnership with top universities. Its courses blend high-quality video, live simulations, interactive media, and small-group exercises informed by over 15 years of cognitive science research on group collaboration. The company highlights a 97% course pass rate and offers programs in areas such as fintech, cybersecurity, AI leadership, and health ventures, instructed by leading experts. In 2021 Esme acquired the Riff Platform to enhance its collaboration capabilities. The company plans to use new funding to expand its marketing footprint, accelerate product innovation, and enhance R&D on new course formats and learning modes aimed at time‑poor executives. Esme Learning Solutions is a digital learning platform that delivers online executive education in partnership with leading universities. Its core product is an AI-enabled digital learning system that leverages dozens of lessons from cognitive and neuroscience to deliver an applied, collaborative learning experience. Courses teach technical skills and business best practices on topics such as cybersecurity and fintech. In less than a year since its 2019 founding, the company has worked with multiple top-tier universities; its current six-week offerings include the Oxford Fintech Programme and Oxford Cyber Security for Business Leaders, and it plans classes with MIT. The company intends to use new funds to expand operations, grow headcount and course offerings, and further develop its course methodology and core AI technology. In conjunction with the funding, Lynn Hollen Lees and Jon Cropper joined Esme Learning's advisory board.

Total raised

$23M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Dec 2021