HowNow is an AI-powered learning and knowledge management platform headquartered in London. The product helps businesses and teams upskill, share knowledge, and access relevant learning resources efficiently, creating a smarter, more accessible way to learn and improve productivity. The company partners with Pearson and has clients including TomTom, MoneyBox, Bausch & Lomb, UKTV, and Good Energy; it also works with Pearson to deliver the UK Government's Learning and Skills Platform. HowNow completed a £7.5M Series A in February 2023 and has total funding to date of over £10M. The majority of investment is being used to drive product development and continued AI integration. Co-founder & CEO Nelson Sivalingam has set a goal to upskill 10 million people by 2030. The UK's EdTech market was valued at approximately $6.73B in 2023 and is projected to grow at a CAGR exceeding 10% from 2023 to 2028. HowNow is a learning experience platform (LXP) that helps organisations onboard, upskill and support employees faster by connecting every employee with learning opportunities, skills and knowledge in the flow of work. Led by CEO and co-founder Nelson Sivalingam, the platform is used by over 100 organisations across more than 150 countries, including Depop, Vanmoof, Permutive, Checkout.com, Mercer, Telenor, Sanofi and Investec. The company provides tools to engage, retain and develop employees through integrated learning and skills features. HowNow intends to use new funding to expand internationally and grow its team. It plans to develop features that scale knowledge sharing, make it easier to measure impact, and better connect learning and skills into the overall employee experience. HowNow is an integrated workforce learning platform that aggregates and autonomously organises learning resources from internal sources, external content libraries, blogs, podcasts and peer-shared ‘nuggets’. The product uses a browser extension, integrations with Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot and more than 300 other apps, and machine learning to push contextually relevant content to employees. It builds user skill profiles from self-review, peer-review and real-time job‑market data, monitoring more than 20,000 job specifications and offering real-time analytics and built-in certification to identify skills gaps. Employees can access recommendations inside the applications they already use and convert colleague messages into stored learning nuggets. Customers include fast-growing companies like GymShark; HowNow says it has more than 500,000 users across over 125 businesses in 14 countries. The company sells via a per-user licence fee and has raised capital to date, including a recent $3M pre-series A.

Total raised

$18M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Feb 2025