Talentguide’s AI-powered skills intelligence maps workforce capabilities across tasks, traits, and knowledge domains, and supports personalised development plans to help translate career goals into skills development.
Ghent-based HR tech company talentguide has secured €1.3 million in funding to support the European expansion of its AI-driven skills intelligence platform, which helps organisations manage workforce upskilling and reskilling amid shifting labour market demands. The round included participation from investment funds NXT II, Travvant (Partena Professional), Miles Ahead Capital, imec.istart, and the founders, as well as entrepreneurs Ewout Meyns, Koen Handekyn, and Jan Delaere.
The investment comes as organisations face increasing challenges related to skills mismatches and workforce planning. Rapid automation is accelerating changes in required competencies, while many companies lack clear visibility into the skills they already have, particularly among blue-collar workers, whose competencies are often undocumented. These factors complicate effective upskilling, reskilling, and long-term talent planning.
Based in Ghent’s Wintercircus innovation hub, talentguide supports primarily mid-sized and large organisations in understanding, developing, and planning workforce competencies through its AI-driven SaaS platform.
We previously spoke with Filip Tack, CEO, and Julia Beatrice Toussaint, Chief of Product of talentguide, about the company’s approach and vision.
Using AI and natural language processing, the platform structures skills based on tasks, traits, and knowledge domains. It enables personalised employee development, performance management, and strategic workforce planning, and is designed for both blue-collar and office workers. The solution can be implemented quickly without complex installations.
Talentguide builds its skills intelligence using existing unstructured company data, including CVs, job descriptions, work instructions, evaluations, and system integrations. This data is used to create a skills-based job architecture and assess current employee competencies.
This pragmatic approach ensures that companies can get started with useful insights from day one, without an expensive or time-intensive start-up phase,
says Filip Tack, CEO of talentguide.
In addition, the platform forecasts future skill requirements, such as those arising from automation-driven process changes, and supports employee growth through AI-generated personal development plans.
Organisations including Travvant, MCC Verstraete, Banqup, Robovision, mtech+, and Syntra Bizz currently use talentguide’s skills intelligence platform.
The new funding will be used to expand talentguide’s revenue, product, and engineering teams. As part of this growth, the company plans to hire software and AI engineers as well as customer success professionals.