– CoachHub is a Berlin, Germany-based digital coaching platform.
– The company raised $80m in Series B2 funding.
– The round was led by Draper Esprit, RTP Global, HV Capital, Signals Venture Capital, Partech, and Speedinvest.
– The new investment will be used to fund the company’s global expansion.

– Pathstream from SF announced an investment from impact investors including Citi, Strada Education Network, and New Markets Venture Partners, alongside participation from existing investors HCM, Entangled Ventures, and Rethink Education.
– The company offers online certificate programs that prepare adult learners for in-demand jobs.

– CharismaQ is a coaching and communication platform based in Germantown, Wis.
– Company raised $1m in seed funding.
– Wisconsin-based insurance carrier West Bend Mutual Insurance provided the funding.
– The new capital will be used to accelerate platform development, marketing, sales, and coaching which will create the foundation for rapid growth and scale.

– Morgan Health announced an investment in Vera Whole Health, a healthcare company that offers patients coordinated care and an enhanced primary care experience.
– The investment is the first investment in a coordinated care model for Morgan Health.
– Vera is transforming how patients engage with healthcare, how providers deliver care, and how employers pay for care.
– Vera’s model is centered on whole person healthcare led by a team of primary care physicians, nurses and health coaches supported by clinics and an integrated technology platform.
– Vera’s high-touch, advanced primary care model delivers differentiated patient experience, quality outcomes, and cost efficiency for employer and payor partners.
– Employers under contract with Vera have seen an average patient Net Promoter Score of 90, and improved health outcomes and utilization.

– Mindtickle, which provides a “sales readiness” platform for enterprises, announced it has closed a $100 million series E funding round led by SoftBank, with participation from Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan, NewView Capital, and Qualcomm Ventures.
– The funds, which bring the company’s total raised to $281 million at a $1.2 billion post-money valuation, will be used to expand Mindtickle’s sales enablement, revenue operations, and training teams, according to cofounder and CEO Krishna Depura.

– Go1, a learning and development platform for enterprises, raised $200m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, AirTree Ventures and Salesforce Ventures co-led this Series D, with Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Microsoft’s M12, SEEK, TEN13 and Scott Shleifer and John Curtius from Tiger Global also participating.
– The company has raised $80m in total funding.
– The company has 3.5 million users and more than 1,600 enterprises globally as customers.

– GathR Virtual Studios, Inc. is a Miami FL-based startup enabling 3D, digitally-visualized, hybrid workspaces.
– The company raised $2.7m in pre-seed funding.
– The round was led by Ken Moelis, Charles Fabrikant, Hope Taitz and Alberto Peisach.
– The new investment will be used to hire an executive team and the further development of the next gen technology.

– Articulate Global, LLC, a market-leading SaaS provider of online training tools and e-learning authoring apps for the new world of work, announced a $1.5 billion Series A funding round led by General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, and joined by funds managed by Blackstone Growth and ICONIQ Growth.
– Bootstrapped by founder and CEO Adam Schwartz in 2002, today’s fundraise is Articulate’s first source of institutional capital, and the company is now valued at $3.75 billion in one of the largest Series A rounds ever.
– With these new partnerships, Articulate will aim to further accelerate its growth and scale internationally.

– Trainual, a leading SaaS platform modernizing the way businesses onboard, train and scale their teams, announced that it closed a $27M Series B investment.
– Led by Altos Ventures, several new and noteworthy investors backed the latest round, including The Shark Group CEO Daymond John, Indeed Co-Founder and Chairman Rony Kahan, PandaDoc CEO Mikita Mikado, TSheets Co-Founder Matt Rissell and 8×8 CEO David Sipes.
– The round also featured continued support from Series A investors 4490 Ventures, MATH Venture Partners and PHX Ventures.
– This round follows Trainual’s $6.75 million Series A and brings the company’s total funding to $33.75 million.

– Lingokids from Madrid is a provider of an early learning platform.
– Series C $40m round brings company valuation to $100m.
– The round was led by an undisclosed investor, with participation from GP Bullhound and existing investors HV Capital and Ravensburger, among others.
– The new investment will be used for further international expansion, development of new and engaging forms of content for kids, as well as global hiring, especially for the platform engineering and development teams.

– Whatfix, a “digital adoption” platform that enterprises use to bake user support tools into their software, has raised $90 million in a series D round of funding.
– The company’s latest funding tranche was spearheaded by SoftBank’s Visions Fund 2, with participation from Cisco Investments, Sequoia Capital India, Eight Roads Ventures, F-Prime Capital, and Dragoneer Investment Group.

– Poka, a Quebec City Canada-based connected worker platform built specifically for manufacturers, raised $25M in Series B funding.
– The round was led by 40 North Ventures with participation from McRock Capital and existing investors SE Ventures, CDPQ, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, and Leclerc.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate product development and scale its go-to-market teams.

– DeltaTrainer, a one-on-one remote personal training company, announced today that it has raised a $3.3m round of seed funding led by TenOneTen Ventures, with participation from Alpha Edison, Maven, and other angel investors.
– Funds will be used to hire technical talent, expand the company’s roster of personal trainers, and for marketing and customer acquisition.
– DeltaTrainer provides one-on-one personal training virtually by tracking a user’s movements via Apple Watch motion analysis. The company uses machine learning to scale the capability of real fitness experts, based on hundreds of proprietary automations that estimate strength, tailor workouts, and interpret workout data. Each client is paired with a real human trainer who provides individualized pacing and form feedback, expert motivation, and personalized workouts that integrate the equipment that clients already have and use at home.

– MasterClass, a San Francisco, CA-based streaming platform for anyone to learn from the best professionals in their specific field, raised $225m in Series F funding.
– The round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from new investors Baillie Gifford, Balyasny Asset Management and Eldridge together with existing investors IVP, Javelin, NEA and Owl Ventures, and 01 Advisors, Atomico, Bonnier, Cleo Capital, Dan Capital, NewView Capital, NextEquity Partners, Outlier Ventures, Powerhouse Capital, RPS Ventures, Family Office of Ronald Lauder and UTA.

– Unmind is a London, UK and NYC-based workplace mental health platform.
– Company raised $47m in Series B funding.
– The round was led by EQT Ventures with participation from Sapphire Ventures, as well as existing investors Project A, Felix Capital, and True Ventures.
– The new investment will be used to accelerate the company’s international growth, continue to develop content, features, and integrations, and increase headcount to 200 people by the end of 2021.

– French startup OpenClassrooms has raised $80m funding.
– The round was led by Lumos Capital Group and joined by GSV, CZI, and Salesforce Ventures.
– Existing investors General Atlantic and Bpifrance also participated in the round.
– The company operates an online education platform in French and English.
– Users can choose among 54 training programs and get a diploma at the end of the program.
– The company guarantees that you’ll find a job.
– In 2020, 4,300 students found a job or received a promotion after participating in an OpenClassrooms program.

– ExecOnline, the pioneer of online leadership development for enterprises, today announced a Series D funding round of $45m USD led by OMERS Growth Equity.
– All of ExecOnline’s major existing investors are also participating in the round, including Kaplan, ABS Capital Partners, NewSpring, and Osage Venture Partners.
– As a result of the transaction, Saar Pikar, Managing Director with OMERS Growth Equity, will join the ExecOnline board of directors.
– ExecOnline partners with elite business schools like Berkeley Haas, Columbia, Stanford GSB, and Wharton, and leverages its unique applied learning approach and proprietary online platform to deliver participant completion rates above 90%, impressive NPS scores, and strong ROI for the enterprise.

– Spekit raised $12.2M in a Series A round.
– The round was led by Foundry Group and Renegade Partners, with participation from Operator Collective, Matchstick Ventures and Bonfire Ventures.
– The company has raised a total of $15.7M.
– Spekit is one of only three women-led companies in the broader digital adoption, enablement and Learning Management System (LMS) space.
– The company is tackling two of the biggest barriers to growth in today’s SaaS-driven, remote work environment: driving the adoption of constantly evolving technology and empowering increasingly dispersed employees with the knowledge they need to be productive and successful in their roles.

– Codecool is an Hungarian programming school and IT Talent Hub operating in Central Europe.
– The company raised €7m in funding.
– Backers included Integral Venture Partners and its earlier investors Lead Ventures and PortfoLion Capital Partners.
– The new investment will be used for further expansion and product development.

– Praxis Labs is a New York-based maker of a virtual reality-based diversity and inclusion learning platform.
– The company raised $3.2m in seed funding.
– The new investment will be used to expand the company’s operations and business reach.

– GoContractor is a construction worker onboarding and compliance tracking digitization platform provider.
– Series A $5m round led by Building Ventures and Ironspring with participation from existing investors.
– The new investment will be aimed at further scaling across the US and European markets, growing its sales, support and marketing teams, and increasing investment in its research and development organization located in Ireland.
– GoContractor provides a worker and subcontractor onboarding and data management solution that exclusively focuses on training, managing, and connecting general contractors with their workers and subcontractors in the construction industry.

– Codecademy, a coding class platform, raised $40m in Series D funding.
– The round was led by Owl Ventures and joined by Prosus and Union Square Ventures.
– The company plans to use the funding to acquire businesses, grow internationally in India and other countries, and hire.
– It also wants to “invest deeply” in a paid product it launched in the wake of the pandemic, Codecademy For Business.

– BetterUp announced a $125m Series D fundraise, bringing the company’s valuation to $1.73b.
– The global leader in mobile-based coaching, counseling, and mentorship, BetterUp is an all-in-one platform that combines behavioral science, AI technology, and human interaction to optimize personal growth and professional development in support of a person’s whole health, at work and in life.
– This latest financing was led by ICONIQ Growth with participation by existing investors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Threshold Ventures, and Plus Capital, and by new investors, Salesforce Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, and Mubadala Capital.

– Interplay Learning is a global leader in training essential skilled trade workers to be job-ready.
– The company completed an $18M Series B round of financing led by Owl Ventures and S3 Ventures with participation from Strada Education Network and The Venture Reality Fund.
– The new investment will be used to continue expanding operations and business reach.

– Interplay, an Austin, Texas-based startup developing a 3D and virtual reality platform for trade workers, today announced that it raised $18 million.
– The company says it’ll use the proceeds to move into new markets and further develop its existing products.
– According to an ABI Research report, before the pandemic, the virtual reality market was forecasted to grow at a 45.7% compound annual rate, surpassing $24.5 billion in revenue by 2024.
– But even amid the health crisis, virtual reality is booming. A PricewaterhouseCoopers survey predicts that nearly 23.5 million jobs worldwide will use augmented and virtual reality by 2030 for training, work meetings, or customer service.
– Founded in 2016 by Doug Donovan and Steve Quirk, Interplay provides online and virtual reality training for a range of skilled trades.