Ghent-based Talentguide secured €1.3 million in a Seed round led by NXT II and Travvant (Partena Professional), with participation from Miles Ahead Capital and imec.istart.
Led by CEO Filip Tack, Talentguide provides an AI-driven skills intelligence platform that transforms unstructured data—including CVs, job descriptions, and work instructions—into a measurable competence matrix. The platform generates personalized development plans (PDPs) to automate upskilling for medium and large enterprises. This move toward deep-tech workforce optimization parallels the skills-centric infrastructure seen in Schole’s learning and development platform.
Market Signal
- The Visibility Alpha: Talentguide specifically targets the “Blue-Collar Blind Spot.” While most HR-tech focuses on white-collar office settings, Talentguide ingests industrial work instructions and career data to uncover hidden competencies in frontline workers, securing the long-term resilience of manufacturing and logistics firms.
- Predictive Resilience: By integrating future skill-need forecasting with automated PDPs, the platform shifts HR from reactive hiring to proactive talent cultivation. Early adoption by firms like Robovision and MCC Verstraete validates the demand for a data-driven alternative to “gut-feeling” personnel planning.
- The Task Fluidity Risk: A primary execution hurdle is the “Automation Decay”; as AI and robotics change the nature of industrial tasks faster than job architectures can be updated, the platform must ensure its skills taxonomy remains dynamic and real-time to avoid creating obsolete development paths.
Key Details
- Funding: €1.3M
- Lead Investor: NXT II, Travvant
- CEO: Filip Tack
- Use Case: AI-driven skills management and automated personal development planning
