Learn In provides a platform that enables companies to establish Talent Academies to build deeper, role‑aligned skills across their workforce. Its core features include a prepaid learning stipend card, a world‑class program marketplace, a custom program builder, a tuition benefits manager, and dedicated coaching. The company targets mid‑market to large employers, with a pipeline focused on financial services, industries undergoing transformation like manufacturing, and fast‑growing companies. Learn In emphasizes precision, personalization, and transparency to increase learning outcomes versus older micro‑learning and licensed‑content approaches. The company was co‑founded by the founders of Degreed and is led by co‑founder and CEO David Blake. Learn In says it will use new capital to expand its technology platform, go‑to‑market team, and customer success capabilities. Learn In offers a dual product: employer-facing SaaS that helps determine whether a company can afford sabbaticals for individual employees, and a marketplace that connects employees to online bootcamps and degree programs. Its sabbatical setups are flexible—employees can split time between work and learning, take partial-pay sabbaticals, or remain on benefits while removed from payroll. Learn In partners with edtech providers such as Podium Education, FlatIron School and Foundry College to deliver training and credentials. The company charges employers a SaaS fee plus a tuition fee per employee; a typical Learn In program costs about $7,000, with employers usually covering $5,250 and employees covering roughly $1,750. Learn In argues its model helps companies avoid layoffs by reskilling staff, estimating rehiring costs (a data scientist can cost above $30,000) and claiming reskilling an internal employee can save about 40% versus external hire costs. The startup launched amid widespread tech layoffs and positions its offering as a longer-term talent retention and cost-saving alternative.

Total raised

$14M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Mar 2022