Electives
Live interactive training platform for employees
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- HR
- Training
- Learning
- SaaS
- Bunker Hill, Boston, MA
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Company mission
Electives' mission is to change who we get to learn from at work and what we get to learn at work.
Our take
The invention of employee e-learning massively increased the rate at which staff training can be conducted whilst reducing costs, but it can be difficult to make virtual learning engaging. This is due to learning platforms often following a one size fits all approach to training, with repetitive multiple-choice structures that can prevent meaningful learning.
Electives provide a live interactive training platform for employees, allowing employers to offer interactive lectures, group exercises, collaboration tools, and asynchronous educational content to employees. Unlike mandatory training courses, the platform allows employers to tailor the training experiences of individuals for targeted upskill opportunities, in addition to providing employers with a dashboard of engagement and progress analytics.
Whilst upskilling platforms have existed for consumers for years, Electives has been smart to apply this format to employee training, recognizing that every team and team member is unique and thus virtual training needs to be personalized. The company shows great potential to disrupt the employee training market by empowering businesses to upskill their staff, improve company culture, and ultimately boost employee productivity.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Play a founding role: As one of our first twenty (20) employees, and the first hire for the Partnerships & Growth team, your ideas, passion, and output will become part of our core DNA
- Create meaningful impact: Our team has an ambitious vision to change how we think about learning as adults and how we can shape the future of workplace culture
- Get compensated: We provide competitive salary, performance incentives, equity, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, and 401K contributions). Electives will also make a donation to the charity of your choice during your first week
- Spend more time with loved ones: Paid and flexible vacation, time-off, sick, and parental leave policies, alongside a fully-remote work culture, supported by a home office stipend
- Access to unlimited learning: Every employee can take any Elective at any point. We’ll also provide a learning stipend to learn and grow on your own
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$8m
SERIES A
Oct 2021
$2.3m
SEED
Total funding: $10.3m
Leadership
Jason Lavender
(CEO)Experience as Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Buoy Health from 2018 to 2020. Co-founder of The Players' Impact since 2017.
Krikor Dzeronian
(COO)Experience as Director of Software Development for Eze Software from 2006 to 2017. Vice President of Software Engineering for Acadian Asset Management from 2017 to 2019.