Ghent-based HR tech company
talentguide has secured €1.3 million in funding to support the European
expansion of its AI-driven skills intelligence platform, which helps
organisations manage workforce upskilling and reskilling amid shifting labour
market demands. The round included participation from investment funds NXT II,
Travvant (Partena Professional), Miles Ahead Capital, imec.istart, and the
founders, as well as entrepreneurs Ewout Meyns, Koen Handekyn, and Jan Delaere.
The investment comes as organisations
face increasing challenges related to skills mismatches and workforce planning.
Rapid automation is accelerating changes in required competencies, while many
companies lack clear visibility into the skills they already have, particularly
among blue-collar workers, whose competencies are often undocumented. These
factors complicate effective upskilling, reskilling, and long-term talent
planning.
Based in Ghent’s Wintercircus
innovation hub, talentguide supports primarily mid-sized and large
organisations in understanding, developing, and planning workforce competencies
through its AI-driven SaaS platform.
We previously spoke with Filip Tack, CEO, and Julia Beatrice Toussaint, Chief of Product of talentguide, about the company’s approach and vision.
Using AI and natural language
processing, the platform structures skills based on tasks, traits, and
knowledge domains. It enables personalised employee development, performance
management, and strategic workforce planning, and is designed for both blue-collar
and office workers. The solution can be implemented quickly without complex
installations.
Talentguide builds its skills
intelligence using existing unstructured company data, including CVs, job
descriptions, work instructions, evaluations, and system integrations. This
data is used to create a skills-based job architecture and assess current employee
competencies.
This pragmatic approach ensures that
companies can get started with useful insights from day one, without an
expensive or time-intensive start-up phase,
says Filip Tack, CEO of talentguide.
In addition, the platform forecasts
future skill requirements, such as those arising from automation-driven process
changes, and supports employee growth through AI-generated personal development
plans.
Organisations including Travvant, MCC
Verstraete, Banqup, Robovision, mtech+, and Syntra Bizz currently use talentguide’s skills intelligence platform.
The new funding will be used to expand talentguide’s
revenue, product, and engineering teams. As part of this growth, the company
plans to hire software and AI engineers as well as customer success
professionals.