Milan-based Skillvue, an AI platform for HR-related duties, introduced at this time a €5.5 million Seed funding spherical to innovate how corporations establish, measure, and develop expertise throughout each candidates and staff.
The funding spherical was led by 360 Capital, with full pro-rata participation from earlier lead buyers Italian Founders Fund and 14Peaks Capital, alongside co-investment from Orbita Verticale. This brings Skillvue’s whole funding to €8.3 million since its founding, following a €2.4 million pre-Seed spherical in 2024 and an preliminary €330k from enterprise angels in 2021.
“We’re harnessing the ability of AI to place expertise on the coronary heart of workforce efficiency, reworking how corporations establish, rent and develop expertise. Our expertise drives sooner, extra knowledgeable recruitment, smarter expertise administration and actual scalability throughout HR processes. With this funding, we’re hitting the accelerator to maintain constructing our Ability Evaluation Brokers, ready to make sure that everybody’s capabilities are seen, valued, and absolutely unlocked whereas concurrently granting a easy evaluation expertise each for HR and for last customers,” mentioned Nicolò Mazzocchi, CEO and Co-founder of Skillvue.
Based in 2021 by Nicolò Mazzocchi and Simone Patera, Skillvue has developed an AI-based platform that allows corporations to undertake a skills-based strategy in all HR-related processes, from recruitment to inside mobility and expertise administration.
Since its pre-Seed spherical in 2024, the corporate has elevated its ARR by 8x between 2023 and 2024, and the workforce will reportedly double from 14 to 30 full-time staff by the top of 2025 throughout Italy, Germany, and Canada, with important structural enhancements to assist its rising platform capabilities.
Skilvue’s shopper portfolio consists of names reminiscent of Unipol, Douglas, Carrefour, Unicredit and Randstad.
“We’re standing at a pivotal second for the way forward for work, the place expertise — not titles — will outline success. Skillvue is not only using this wave; they’re shaping it, by combining cutting-edge AI with a deep understanding of skills-based dynamics. Skillvue is setting a brand new benchmark for a way corporations recognise, worth, and develop expertise because the true drivers of development and success — a imaginative and prescient already embraced by main gamers throughout industries.
“We are thrilled to assist Nicolò, Simone, and your complete Skillvue workforce of their formidable journey to scale and redefine how human potential is actually valued,” added Lucrezia Lucotti, Companion at 360 Capital.
Skillvue believes that whereas 70% of HR professionals seek for expertise with the proper expertise, most organisations are sitting on a goldmine of undiscovered capabilities inside their very own workforce.
Because the job market faces unprecedented disruption—with 59% of staff needing reskilling by 2030 (as per information supplied to EU-Startups)—Skillvue’s AI-powered platform appears to be like to evolve from a recruitment device right into a complete Expertise Evaluation Brokers system that breaks down conventional job constructions to disclose the capabilities and potential that drive efficiency.
The platform permits corporations to leverage constant methodology for expertise evaluation whether or not they’re hiring new expertise or growing current staff, reportedly at a fraction of the value and time required to conduct conventional expertise assessments.
Key organisational developments embrace the creation of a devoted Psychometric Group led by AI researcher Dr Tony Lee to validate and evolve the AI-based expertise evaluation mannequin, and the institution of a specialised Buyer Success workforce with devoted Folks Scientists who work immediately with purchasers to optimise their expertise evaluation methods.
The corporate has additionally expanded its Improvement Group with devoted sources for cybersecurity and full-stack engineering, whereas separating its AI Division from the Improvement Division to speed up each analysis and implementation efforts.
In keeping with SHRM, 70% of HR professionals listing discovering staff with the proper expertise as a prime precedence for 2025, with 35% planning to make use of pre-employment assessments or assessments to establish certified candidates, and 28% planning to calm down training and diploma necessities. Nonetheless, analysis by Politecnico di Milano discovered that in 2024, solely 35% of Italian corporations have been in a position to establish and unlock “hidden expertise” inside their organisations.
Lorenzo Franzi, Companion at IFF, & Edoardo Ermotti, Founder & Basic Companion at 14Peaks Capital mentioned in a joint assertion: “After co-leading the pre-Seed spherical, we’re thrilled to associate with Nicolò, Simone and your complete workforce on this essential part of development. On this first 12 months with Skillvue, our precedence alongside the Founders was to strengthen the corporate’s foundations in preparation for scaling up, by way of focused hiring throughout varied departments and a well-defined strategic plan. We’re very happy with the work carried out by Nicolò, Simone and your complete workforce, and we consider that the addition of 360 Capital, with its expertise and connections outdoors of Italy which might be strategic for Skillvue, will additional strengthen the go-to-market plan.
“Skillvue’s imaginative and prescient suits completely on the intersection of two central developments for many who research and construct the way forward for work: the applying of AI to HR processes and the transition to skills-based organisational fashions. We’re satisfied that these will not be simply developments, however structural transformations that can redefine the best way corporations rent, develop and worth human capital for many years to come back.”
The funding will speed up Skillvue’s improvement of Expertise Evaluation Brokers to assist HR professionals of their every day routines, shifting past fundamental activity automation to facilitate every step of the assessments and to supply higher-quality output. This aligns with present market developments, as roughly half of Italian HR leaders plan to extend their use of AI in 2025, with 80% aiming to streamline processes, cut back prices, and automate repetitive duties – as per information supplied by Skillvue.
