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Startup Of The Week: Workera

While 94% of employees express readiness to learn new skills, research shows that only 5% of organizations are effectively reskilling their workforce at scale. The challenge is particularly pronounced in high-demand fields like AI, machine learning, and Cloud computing, where skill requirements continue to evolve at an unprecedented pace.

That’s where Workera, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, comes in. The Palo Alto-based skills intelligence company verifies employee skills through adaptive AI-generated assessments, maps those skills against an ontology of over 10,000 competencies, and then guides personalized upskilling through Elo — an AI mentor agent that diagnoses gaps, sets learning goals, and tracks progress.

“We use AI to be better at measuring any type of skill and by measuring everything we are better at measuring every single thing,” says CEO and co-founder Kian Katanforoosh.

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.