CoRise Launches Out of Stealth to Help Bridge the Data and Technical Skills Gap

By HRTech Specialist Last updated Sep 29, 2022

Seed investment of 8.5 million from Greylock Partners, GSV Ventures, and Cowboy Ventures underscores urgent need to upskill technical workforce

CoRise officially launched its live online upskilling platform to help businesses and individuals acquire the cutting-edge technical skills necessary to remain competitive in today’s market. The CoRise platform features live online courses from top industry experts, a rich community of peers, and leverages technology to deliver high-quality education with real career outcomes at scale.

“The world economic forum estimates that over 1 billion jobs will be transformed by technology, with machine learning and data science among the domains leading the charge. But the demand for top talent in these technical areas is outpacing supply.” said Julia Stiglitz, CEO and Co-Founder, CoRise. “This growing skills gap has forced organizations and individuals to choose between high-cost live training for a select few, or scalable, self-paced platforms that struggle with engagement. CoRise is on a mission to break this trade-off, creating scalable but impactful training that allows professionals to acquire the most in-demand skills.”

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CoRise was founded by Julia Stiglitz, Sourabh Bajaj, and Jacob Samuelson. Combined, the founding team has deep experience in education and machine learning at such companies as Coursera, Google Brain, Teach For America, GSV Ventures, and Neeva.

CoRise combines world-class instructors with the power of a community of students and technology to drive career outcomes for learners at scale. Benefits and features of the platform include:

Courses. Live, cohort and project based courses taught by industry experts from leading-edge technology companies.
Community of practice for peer to peer learning and support.
Personalization. CoRise will leverage technology and advances in AI to ensure student success—identifying who needs help, when they need it, and in what form.

Already students from over 500 companies like Spotify, Lyft, Electronic Arts, and Walmart, have completed courses and are learning the skills they need to accelerate their careers. Course completion rates on CoRise are 78 percent, compared to the average asynchronous course completion of 3-6 percent. 94 percent of learners say the skills they learned from their CoRise courses will help them succeed in their jobs. Additionally, forward looking organizations are using the platform to upskill their workforces.

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“CoRise had the best results with our employees of any learning platform that I have ever used,” said Rebecca Scales, Head of Technical Learning and Development, Noom, and former Head of Technical L&D at Expedia. “Technical training has become a business imperative and with that I need solutions that drive real outcomes. CoRise is on the cutting edge of learning, and I am thrilled to be partnering with them.”

“The only way to provide relevant, meaningful, and up-to-date learning for rapidly changing skills is through dynamic learning systems that combine world-class live experts, communities of practice, reinforcement technologies, and real-world, customized application,” said Karie Willyerd, former CLO of Visa and advisor to CoRise.”CoRise has designed a magic combination to make it possible for companies to build their own technical talent with measurable completion and capability results.”

Fueling CoRise’s progress and success to date is $8.5 in seed funding round lead by Greylock Partners and GSV Ventures, with participation of Cowboy Ventures as well as Mustafa Suleyman, Cofounder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, and Greg Brockman, Cofounder of Open AI.

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