Talent shortage and skills development are among the top two priorities businesses are struggling to get to grips with today, according to Gartner. Helping them take control of the situation, start-up, Anthropos, has raised US$2.7 million to create a new way for companies to help employees evolve their skillsets in accordance with business needs while improving retention.
With offices in the US and Switzerland, Anthropos’ pre-seed round is led by Switzerland-based, Founderful, with additional participation from Eden Ventures, Exor Ventures, Zanichelli Venture, Alessandro Rivetti and several angel investors across the EU and US.
“People want to see a clear path to grow in their organisation and learn the exact skills they need to succeed there. At the same time, you can’t run your business without modern skills and a solution to constantly understand what your people can and cannot do. It’s a problem that is intensifying across all industries and it will get even more important as people need to adopt AI and make it part of their daily job,” said Stefano Bellasio, CEO of Anthropos.
Anthropos was founded by Stefano Bellasio and Giacomo Marinangeli after building Cloud Academy, a cloud training platform they started in 2013. The duo scaled the business to over US$25 million in ARR with Fortune 500 customers like Microsoft, Warner Media and Deloitte, and, in the process, realised the majority of their enterprise customers were struggling with the same interrelated problems: employee retention and skills development.