Skiller Whale
Live team coaching for tech teams
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Education
- Training
- SaaS
- Holborn, London, UK
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Company mission
To change what engineering teams are capable of.
Our take
Given the rapid pace of growth in tech, developers are in constant need of upskill to keep up. Skiller Whale offers an online live training platform for tech teams to upskill via skills assessment and small expert-led classes.
Tech training schemes exist but are usually expensive and intensive, weeklong or more courses, which many startups can’t afford or risk losing their dev team to. Skiller Whale remedies this by offering live, intensive coaching which is affordable and sustainable. And the subscription model allows companies to opt in and out at their free will.
Skiller Whale is using seed funding, led by Brighteye Ventures, to scale up its on-job learning offers. In doing so, the company will enable increased flexibility and easier integration with tech teams’ schedules. And there are even plans to expand offerings beyond language-specific coaching to broader topics such as writing clean code, as well as soft skills like time management.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$2.9m
SEED
Sep 2020
$0.9m
SEED
Total funding: $3.8m
Leadership
Hywel Carver
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded and acted as CTO of Bridge U and Matopy, as well as Tech Leader Dinners, still serving here as organiser. Experience as a Consulting CTO, Tech Mentor for Seedcamp, Technology Advisor and Interim CTO for UpMail, and as a Software Engineer for Softwire.
Dave Millican
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously acted as Lead Data Scientist for BridgeU, Software Engineer for Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team and Interned as a Process Chemist for AstraZeneca,
Hayley McCarthy
(Co-Founder & CMO)Previously acted as CMO for Aula, Director of Customer for BridgeU and as Chief Business Development Officer for Future Perfect.