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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.
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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
Company values
- Embrace Differences and actively seek as well as respectfully express perspectives; our best learning comes from our differences
- Take ownership, roll up our sleeves and do something when we see an improvement opportunity
- Are bold and try new ways of solving old problems. After all, we are trying to change the face of learning in the workplace
- Commit to the best idea regardless of where it came from. Innovation is more important than tenure or titles
- Have a Growth Mindset. We are building something new that does not exist; we do not have all the answers, but are confident we can find them
- Play the long game and don't take shortcuts. We make decisions that build products and relationships for the future
- Have each other's back and always look for ways to elevate their coworkers. We succeed as a team and we fail as a team
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.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Electives
- Electives is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We value the individual and diversity of perspective and believe that creating teams composed of individuals from various backgrounds and experiences is not only the fair approach, but the best approach.
- We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Electives prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.