London, U.K. – February 14, 2017 – Peer to Peer Micro-learning and Knowledge Sharing Platform, SmartUp.io has announced a $5.5 Million Series A Round with Notion Capital and Hong Leong Group.
The raise is being used to evolve the SmartUp platform to serve the needs of large corporates and startups using the platform to create communities for their teams to learn new skills and exchange knowledge fast and effectively, and take advantage of SmartUp’s learning modules around innovation, rapid prototyping, fintech, AI and more – equipping their teams for the future of work.
Behind SmartUp is the premise that anyone can create their own content really easily and share knowledge openly across an organization. SmartUp’s customers are creating a whole range of different interactive content on the platform – for training, product info, on-boarding new employees, sales material, compliance, innovation and more.
Corporates in particular are looking for 21st Century learning platforms to replace or complement their older generation Learning Management Systems, and are much more flexible. SmartUp is already used by over 100,000 startup founders and teams, and is a perfect tool for companies looking to reduce high spend on expensive one size fits all content systems like Lynda.com and Degreed.com, and start unlocking the knowledge in their own teams.
SmartUp is also attracting the interest of businesses looking to create an external customer and partner “academies”. These can be used for training a wider audience on their product, moving beyond blogs and downloaded PDFs to a micro-learning format where they get feedback from customers on the product material.
SmartUp has also launched new knowledge sharing communities for startups and innovators which are open and free, which can be found at launch.smartup.io and elevate.smartup.io.
About SmartUp:
SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators, business schools and curious entrepreneurs. SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential.
