Lausanne and San Francisco-based Scholé secured $3 million in funding led by ACE Ventures, with participation from The House Fund and FundF.
Led by CEO Dr. Vinitra Swamy and CTO Dr. Paola Mejia, Scholé deploys an “agentic” engine that generates personalized training grounded in a company’s own materials. Unlike legacy LMS platforms, Scholé adjusts difficulty and lesson formats in real-time based on a user’s role and day-to-day tasks. This shift toward high-fidelity, autonomous coaching mirrors trends in agentic web infrastructure and AI-native education.
Scholé has co-developed courses with Harvard and currently serves learners from global firms including NASA, Oracle, and Microsoft. The startup is also piloting its adaptive solution with Swiss enterprises like Swisscom and Decathlon.
Market Signal
- The Productivity Alpha: By delivering “training in the flow of work,” Scholé solves the adoption gap where employees possess AI tools but lack the specific context to apply them to their unique functional roles.
- Academic-to-Commercial Moat: Spun out of EPFL’s Machine Learning for Education lab, the founders possess a decade of research-backed pedagogical data, giving them a technical edge over generic wrapper-based learning apps.
- The Integration Hurdle: Sustaining real-time adaptivity requires deep, continuous access to a company’s internal workflows and “living” documents, presenting significant security and data privacy hurdles for conservative enterprise IT departments.
Key Details
- Funding: $3M
- Lead Investor: ACE Ventures
- CEO: Dr. Vinitra Swamy
- Use Case: Personalized, agentic workforce upskilling and AI literacy
