Skillit builds a data-driven recruiting platform purpose-built for construction that taxonomizes and assesses skills, experience, goals and preferences to generate data-rich worker profiles. The platform is used by top ENR contractors pursuing self-perform strategies to better control project lifecycle and profitability. Skillit reports materially higher interview requests, offer acceptance rates that are 1.7x the industry average and retention rates that are nearly double. The company is expanding its Trade-Region Pairs (TRPs) and has doubled the number of roles available to customers, covering trades from carpenters and electricians to heavy equipment operators and welders. Skillit is positioning to serve growth in demand driven by legislation and major infrastructure and green jobs, and is building product, engineering, customer success and sales teams to scale. The company is based in New York City and has raised a total of $13.6M to date. Skillit provides an end-to-end recruiting platform purpose-built for construction, offering sourcing, trade-specific skills assessments, hiring, training, evaluation and win-back workflows. The platform collects hundreds of data points to create a rich, taxonomized view of skilled construction labor across the employee lifecycle. It is already in use by select ENR contractors, including Messer Construction, and delivers improved hiring outcomes such as higher percent of offers accepted and reduced time to hire. The company says its product smooths and accelerates the hiring experience for both contractors and workers and produces data-driven compensation and labor-market insights. Skillit plans to open new regional markets, refine the product with real customer usage and feedback, and expand its team across product, engineering, customer success and sales. The company raised a $5.1M seed round to fund these efforts and pursue broader adoption, including potential application in the unionized sector.

Total raised

$14M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Jul 2023