As AI adoption accelerates across enterprises, training often lags behind. Enter Scholé AI, an AI-native learning platform built to equip employees with context-aware, role-specific skills at scale. Today, Scholé AI announced it has raised $3 million in funding led by ACE Ventures, with participation from The House Fund and FundF, aimed at expanding enterprise deployments, growing the team, and advancing its adaptive learning platform.
Closing the AI Skills Gap With Personalized Learning
Many companies struggle to convert AI tools into productivity gains, largely because employees lack timely, practical, and relevant training. Scholé AI addresses that challenge with an agentic, adaptive learning engine that tailors lessons to individual roles, workflows, and company-specific materials.
“While AI adoption is accelerating, learning has remained largely static,” said Vinitra Swamy, CEO and co-founder. “Today we’re on the cusp of a similar moment as the internet revolution, where every lifelong learner can have the teacher that’s exactly right for them. No more one-size-fits-all training.”
Unlike traditional courses, Scholé delivers short, interactive lessons that adapt in real time, adjusting difficulty, format, and content to align with learners’ day-to-day tasks. The initial focus is helping employees apply AI in practical, role-specific ways, bridging the gap between theory and workplace application.
From Research to Real-World Enterprise Learning
Scholé AI is a spin-off of research from EPFL and UC Berkeley, founded by Vinitra Swamy and Paola Mejia, recent PhDs with deep expertise in machine learning for education. The platform translates years of academic research into tools designed for enterprise-scale learning.
The platform has already been adopted by hundreds of global companies, including Bank of America, NASA, Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple, and Scholé has co-developed AI-intensive courses with Harvard, recently recognized by Forbes as a top way to learn AI agents in 2026. The platform is also piloting personalized learning with Swiss enterprises such as Swisscom, Decathlon, and Coop.
Investors See Enterprise Upskilling as a Critical Bottleneck
“We’re proud to lead Scholé’s round,” said Steve Salom, Partner at ACE Ventures. “The team combines deep ML-for-education expertise with practical product experience. Scholé’s AI-native, role-specific learning is a game changer for closing the frontline adoption gap, delivering context-aware training in the flow of work.”
With this funding, Scholé plans to expand enterprise deployments and accelerate development of its adaptive AI-native learning platform, helping organizations move beyond experimentation to real, measurable productivity gains.
The Bigger Picture
As companies race to integrate AI into daily operations, the gap between available technology and employee skill remains a major hurdle. Scholé AI’s approach—adaptive, personalized, and grounded in a company’s actual workflows—reflects a larger trend in HR tech and enterprise learning: education that evolves with the technology it supports.
For enterprises, this could be the key to ensuring AI adoption delivers tangible impact, rather than just another line item on a digital transformation roadmap.
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