👀 Inside the Skills Intelligence Stack. 🇺🇸 Join us in NYC for the Back to School Summit.

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Skills intelligence is emerging as a strategic power move across hiring, planning, and development. With 67% of North American workers needing reskilling by 2030 and acute shortages in sectors like healthcare, AI, and clean energy, organizations are embedding skills data into core decision-making. Skills data is likely to become a standard performance metric, used by HR, operations and finance, to justify staffing models, training ROI, and automation roadmaps.

Key insights on this trend:

• Workforce Readiness: According to the HolonIQ G20 Skills Outlook, the US semiconductor sector alone expects a shortfall of 150,000 workers by 2030. Skills intelligence platforms can forecast gaps while others prioritize talent upskilling.
• Hiring & Mobility: Tools like HireVue and TechWolf are augmenting traditional credentials with demonstrated ability and mapping skills from internal talent for smarter redeployment.
• Policy & Education Alignment: Governments from the EU to Indonesia are launching national skills platforms, while universities are beginning to adopt skills taxonomies to frame entire programs. Alignment will be key to keeping learners at the center.
• Strategic Integration: Skills platforms are moving from HR tools to enterprise-wide systems, informing staffing models, training ROI, and automation priorities.

Explore HolonIQ’s entire Skills Intelligence Market Map to see the platforms powering this shift.

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💪 Power Moves

🤖 OpenAI launched OpenAI Academy in India to promote AI education nationwide in partnership with the government.

✍️ McGraw-Hill and Pearson partner to integrate PRoPL assessments, enhancing K–12 instruction with actionable student insights.

🧑‍🏫 The University of Michigan and Google launched an AI Virtual Teaching Assistant to improve higher education and support educators.

💰 Education Funding

🎓 Udemy, an online education platform, secured a $200M credit line to expand its AI-powered skills platform and support global growth for enterprises and consumers.

🖥️ Principia, a Brazilian higher ed financial management system, raised $35M to integrate AI to automate processes such as re-enrollment and class scheduling.

💡 Prepia, a Serbian AI-powered exam prep platform, has raised $1.7M to scale its AI-driven exam prep platform across +300 markets. 

🏫 Taawoni, a Saudi edtech startup, raised $1.6M to scale its platform that connects universities and employers for cooperative training programs.

📢 Wolters Kluwer Health, a global provider of information services and solutions, has acquired IntelliLearn, an Australian company that offers online courseware solutions for nursing school.