Participated · Series C · Feb 2022

Talespin builds a spatial computing platform to power talent development and skills mobility for the future of work. Founded in 2015 and led by co-founder and CEO Kyle Jackson, the company leverages a proprietary platform to offer enterprise customers, partners, and individuals an end-to-end solution for creating, distributing, and measuring immersive learning content. Its technology uses 3D virtual humans and environments to help people practice conversational skills and simulate jobs with real-time feedback and skills analytics. Talespin supports an ecosystem of learning content creators, leading learning platforms, XR hardware partners, and enterprise customers. The platform is used by organizations including Accenture, Farmers Insurance®, AIA Hong Kong & Macau, JFF, and ten of the largest employers in the Fortune 500, and is reported to deliver accelerated learning, higher employee engagement, and impactful upskilling and reskilling programs. Talespin develops immersive virtual and augmented reality training tools aimed at enterprise talent management, hiring and skills development. Its platform uses game-engine animation assets rather than 360-degree video so content can be reused across modules. Customers include corporate insurance teams where Talespin has helped claims assessors and investigators train on real-world scenarios. The company plans to expand product offerings and develop HR training tools through a new partnership with Cornerstone OnDemand. Financially, Talespin has raised a $15 million Series B and had previously raised $5 million, providing capital to scale its enterprise-focused business. The company emphasizes solving reskilling challenges by creating continuous learning and better skills data for employers.

Participated · Series B · Nov 2021

Disprz provides an AI-powered suite that combines a learning management system, a learning experience platform, and frontline enablement offerings. The company serves over 350 organizations and has established a presence on every continent. Notable customers include Thrasio, Amazon, and Mint Dentistry. Leadership includes CEO Subbu Viswanathan and COO Kuljit Chadha. Disprz plans to expand its global team and hire data scientists, skilling scientists, and engineers to strengthen product capabilities. It also intends to form strategic partnerships and pursue acquisitions across the broader learning ecosystem, including HCM players, people-reward platforms, learning content providers, and assessment vendors. Disprz offers an AI-powered learning, skilling and career-mobility platform for enterprises, providing cloud-based learning management and skills-based learning experience solutions. The company says it has helped more than 275 global organizations and crossed 2 million users across six continents. Disprz plans to use new funding to accelerate expansion in the US and UK, with increased hiring and marketing. It was founded by Subramanian Viswanathan and Kuljit Chadha and is positioning itself as a leading provider of enterprise learning and enablement in emerging Asia. The team previously built a product for the education sector (K12+university) and achieved a healthy exit, per the article. Disprz is a Chennai, India–based software-as-a-service skill-development and employee engagement platform. It offers an AI-powered right-skilling suite designed to help enterprises enable organization-wide skilling and unlock business potential. The company was founded in 2015 by Subramanian Viswanathan and Kuljit Chadha. Disprz has been recognized as a minicorn by Tracxn and won the Aatmanirbhar Bharat Innovation Challenge 2020. In November 2021 Disprz raised $13 million in a Series B to fund growth. The company plans to use the proceeds to scale product and engineering teams, establish a sales and marketing division in the US, expand into Southeast Asia and the Middle East, and build industry-specific product solutions. Disprz offers a cloud-based, AI-powered learning and development platform using a subscription "Learning-as-a-Service" (LaaS) approach that spans HR analytics, talent management, organisational development, and digital platform adoption. The platform combines human learning components with advanced AI algorithms to deliver end-to-end skilling, from skill identification and gap analysis to digital delivery and impact measurement. Disprz serves customers across industries — including Amazon, Petronas, GE Aviation, Tata Motors, and Standard Chartered Bank — and its platform is customizable for different geographies. The company reports serving over 750,000 learners and says its user base has been doubling every year. With recent funding, Disprz plans to expand in the SEA region and hire additional team members to support its growing customer base. The startup positions itself as a skilling partner for large enterprises and MNCs facing rapid digitisation of L&D. Disprz is a SaaS edtech platform focused on enterprise and online learning, aimed at helping workforces integrate knowledge into daily work. The platform offers a multilingual app and leverages social, mobile, cloud and analytics to make employees more knowledgeable and productive. It was rechristened from Learntron in July last year and was founded in 2105 by Subramanian Viswanathan (CEO) and Kuljit Chadha. The company has early US clients and plans to go deeper into the US market. Proceeds from the new round will be used to ramp up data science capabilities and expand operations overseas. Disprz was also selected for Oracle's Startup Cloud Accelerator program in Mumbai.

Led · Equity · Aug 2021

Noa (News Over Audio) is a spoken‑word audio journalism platform that narrates and curates written articles from multiple trusted news sources for mobile and voice interfaces. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, Noa offers both a free tier and a paid subscription at $7.99 per month. The company distributes narrated content via its iPhone and Android apps, CarPlay and Android Auto, its website and an Alexa skill. Noa says it has become the largest producer of spoken‑word audio articles in the English‑speaking world and reports a median listening time of 45 minutes per session. The team is roughly 25 people across editorial, product and design. A partnership and A$330,000 collaborative investment from Go1 will place Noa’s narrated articles into Go1’s learning library and expose the content to Go1’s base of over 3.5 million learners to help accelerate growth.

Participated · Series D · Jul 2021

Go1 aggregates and curates content from dozens of providers (including Blinkist, Thrive, Skillsoft, Pluralsight and Harvard Business Publishing) into a single platform customers can license rather than contracting with each provider. Its customers range from companies like TikTok to the Singaporean government, and the company says revenues, customers and learners all doubled in the last year. Go1 now reports about 5 million learners using its platform. Growth has been largely organic to date, though the company has started pursuing inorganic expansion—acquiring French‑Swiss B2B edtech startup Coorpacademy in April to deepen reach in francophone markets. Management plans to use new funding to pursue further M&A, explore expanding beyond employer‑sourced learners into consumer relationships, and invest in technology such as VR-based learning and livestreaming. Go1 maintains its own branding across the experience rather than offering a fully white‑label product. Go1 provides a curated online learning platform for enterprises, aggregating some 150,000 pieces of content from roughly 1,000 publishers into configurable "playlists". The product includes analytics and AI-driven personalization to measure engagement and tailor learning. The company says it serves about 3.5 million users and more than 1,600 enterprises, with active users spending about two to six hours per month and user growth of over 300% in the last year. Go1 partners with major content providers (Pearson, EdX, Coursera, Skillsoft, Blinkist, Harvard Business Review) and integrates with corporate systems such as SAP, Workday, Salesforce and Microsoft Teams. It also aims to expand features around credential portability so users can carry certifications between jobs. The company is expanding its suite of learning and development services and plans geographic expansion deeper into Europe and across the Asia Pacific region. GO1 is an online learning platform that aggregates professional training and compliance courses from vetted content partners. Its catalog includes over 170,000 courses provided by about 100 partners and is available to more than 1.5 million users across 3,000+ customers. Usage on the platform has grown five-fold over the last 12 months and engagement reportedly tripled in the most recent month. GO1 can integrate with in-house learning management systems or provide its own, and it has strategic integrations with Microsoft Teams. The company is expanding its partner network and aims to continue growth in North America. GO1 is making COVID-19–related learning resources available for free to support teams during the pandemic. GO1 is an Australia-based training platform that provides online training services. The article identifies the company primarily by its training-platform product. GO1 has raised $30 million in a Series B financing. The round was led by M12, the corporate venture arm of Microsoft. The article notes M12 invests in next-generation technology companies. No additional financial details, operating metrics, or future plans were disclosed in the article. GO1 operates an online platform and marketplace where users can browse or create courses spanning compliance, onboarding, and personal development. The company says it hosts more than 500,000 courses and learning resources and has over 22 million users across clients such as Cricket Australia and Adshel. GO1 integrated its courses into Seek’s jobs platform so job seekers see relevant training during the hiring process; Seek is also a customer. The startup plans to use the new funding to expand into new markets around the world. Andrew Barnes, GO1 cofounder and CEO, framed the Seek investment as a step toward deepening the partnership and increasing global presence.