As firms push to extend effectivity and keep aggressive, they’re encouraging, or in some circumstances outright requiring, staff to know learn how to use AI instruments. Nonetheless, the push for AI use has uncovered a coaching hole.
“There are few solutions available on the market that are dedicated to non-technical people,” Aureliusz Gorski, founder and CEO of Warsaw-based CampusAI, advised TechCrunch.
CampusAI’s resolution? An academic platform targeted on making studying accessible to on a regular basis individuals who wish to convey AI into their on a regular basis workflows — whether or not that’s to assist enhance gross sales, HR, authorized, or simply give your private branding a lift with AI. The platform goals to assist individuals perceive and work with AI, somewhat than be intimidated by it.
The Polish startup spoke to TechCrunch forward of the TechCrunch Disrupt convention, the place it’s a Startup Battlefield Prime 20 finalist. CampusAI’s predominant product is a complete on-line studying ecosystem with two key parts: programs that includes an avatar-based studying mannequin and a digital campus within the metaverse the place customers can study extra abilities, join with others, take part in group tasks, and extra. Consider it like Roblox for adults.
CampusAI presents its studying platform on to customers or to companies that wish to create AI upskilling paths for workers. The startup says it supplies entry to dozens of AI fashions — from ChatGPT and Gemini to Midjourney and Flux — so customers can experiment and study in a single place with no need to enroll in separate accounts and subscriptions. The staff additionally updates programs every single day to maintain up with the quick tempo of technological change.
CampusAI’s flagship course for customers is known as Me+AI, priced at $250 per yr, and it permits college students to personalize their studying expertise. The B2B product, referred to as Staff+AI, is priced at $25,000 per yr.
“We are helping with the implementation of the human plus AI readiness culture [within companies], helping companies go smoothly with this transition,” Gorski stated.
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The primary three weeks of Staff+AI embrace an AI readiness take a look at for the group, a workshop for managers, and a webinar for your entire group. The final 4 weeks function customized growth paths for workers which have been tailored to satisfy firm objectives.
“You can come in as a professional of a field, say, an HR expert, or someone who works in finance, and then you’ll find a batch of courses for yourself,” Aleksandra Przegalińska, an AI researcher and scientific adviser to CampusAI, advised TechCrunch. “CampusAI is capable of preparing specific pathways for specific organizations so they can do a tailor-made approach.”
CampusAI’s studying methodology is predicated off Przegalińska’s analysis on human-AI collaboration for improved enterprise outcomes and complicated problem-solving. The strategy facilities on utilizing prompting methods to develop AI consultants that help people in enhancing their capabilities.
As such, CampusAI college students have entry to the corporate’s immediate e book, which not solely presents a repository of prompts, but additionally coaches college students to learn to construct higher prompts. Inside the digital campus atmosphere, college students may also go to the “AI Gym” — a platform the place college students deal with focused workouts and challenges created by an AI agent that gives ongoing evaluation.
“We want to build an environment where you don’t delegate tasks to AI, but rather, you work with it in multiple different modalities,” Przegalińska stated. “You can work in parallel with it, it can become your teammate, your sparring partner, your critic, or your coach. We think of this technology as something that is enhancing your work, not something that is taking over your work.”
CampusAI claims its programs produce a measurable ROI, with workers changing into 40% extra environment friendly and 60% extra glad with their jobs. And the two-year-old firm seems to have had some severe traction.
“It was huge success in Poland in the first two weeks,” Gorski stated, noting the corporate launched in 2023. “We got over 600 clients who decided to buy our lifetime membership, and from that moment, we grew to 35,000 users.”
CampusAI additionally boasts 60 enterprise prospects, together with ING, T-Cellular, Lenovo, and Ikea, and is on monitor for greater than $2 million in ARR in 2025. The corporate is presently elevating a $20 million Sequence A to assist it develop to 40 markets by 2030. CampusAI, which presents its program right this moment in Polish, English, and Spanish, has just lately expanded into the U.Ok. and the U.S., with a give attention to constructing B2B gross sales earlier than branching into D2C.
Customers who full the programs and wish to uncover extra will be invited to affix Group+AI, a digital hub for members to attach, share information, and collaborate on tasks — like hAI Journal, an internet journal the place customers can share sector-specific insights.
Past its studying atmosphere, Gorski stated CampusAI’s digital twin expertise has turn into a significant worth proposition. As a substitute of simply working its personal digital campus, CampusAI needs to construct and license digital twins of real-life college campuses, company showrooms, authorities establishments, or firm headquarters for organizations’ unique use. The digital twins product begins at $100,000 per yr.
CampusAI just lately secured €18 million from the European Fee to collaborate with 11 universities throughout 10 international locations — together with Greece, Spain, the U.Ok., France, Luxembourg, and Germany — to create digital twins and customised studying environments for college students.
Gorski views these college partnerships as launchpads for native innovation hubs — an strategy knowledgeable by his seven years at Cambridge Innovation Middle, the place he created over 10 applications to develop Warsaw’s startup group. These digital environments are designed as catalysts for constructing native communities and digital districts, in the end making a social platform tailor-made for entrepreneurs.
He emphasised that fostering sturdy native ecosystems is essential to counter massive tech dominance.
“We believe people should focus on building strong local ecosystems, because if not, the next five years will probably have less and less startups, especially after what we saw recently with OpenAI providing more solutions inside one ecosystem,” he stated.
If you wish to study extra about CampusAI from the corporate itself — whereas additionally trying out dozens of others, listening to their pitches, and listening to visitor audio system on 4 totally different phases — be part of us at Disrupt, October 27 to 29 in San Francisco. Be taught extra right here.
