Post by Amelia Miller

I CANNOT believe I am typing this... ivee RAISES $1M TO BRING AI UPSKILLING TO THE MASSES I am SO ecited to annouce our Seed round (first close) and ivee's expansion! Thank you Sifted for breaking the story!! 🤯 We’re backed by an incredible group of investors, including Social Impact Enterprises and Techstars as well as high‑profile angels: Steven Bartlett, Deborah Meaden, and senior leaders from Microsoft AI SuperIntelligence Lab, Dawn Capital, and Balderton. 👊 Picture this: you hear about the newest, shiniest AI tool from a friend - "Claude just dropped their Nimbus 2000 model" they proclaim "and it only costs $1,999 per month!". You swallow the familiar feeling of anxiety and get back to your frustrating back-and-forth with ChatGPT, wondering how you fell so behind on technology that felt cutting-edge just months ago. If this resonates with you, you're not alone. AI tool overwhelm has become a tidal wave. 🌊 I founded ivee alongside my sister Lydia to fix this. AI investment has skyrocketed, and Silicon Valley has flooded the market with thousands of new tools. The result? Overwhelm, and stalled adoption. I told Sifted: “Companies are investing in AI technology their workforce isn’t trained to use. Most employees were hired long before Gen AI even existed, so they don’t know how to use AI in it's basic form, let alone the shiny new tools.” We're stuck in a MASSIVE adoption lag paradox: the technology is getting better and better, but usage is lagging. When Microsoft Excel was the only answer to finance problems, a 50 hour upskilling course was justified. The ROI was there. And Excel sat proudly on our CVs for over a decade. Gone are those days. Now, finance professionals have 35 AI tools to choose from, any of which could get knocked off the top spot tomorrow. As a result, companies and individuals stand still, reclusing back to ChatGPT and Copilot, not daring to experiment with the newer tools in case they waste our time - or worse - steal our job. ivee helps people learn and improve their AI skills by: 👉 Curating the best and most relevant AI tools for any given problem 👉 Offering short practical lessons built around real tasks and designed for immediate application 👉 Providing a clear framework to validate, track and showcase your AI skills 👉 Offering companies access to a network of AI-fluent talent to hire Every user builds a dynamic AI Skills Profile that updates as they learn, giving leadership visibility into capability across the organisation, and providing access to a wider pool of AI-fluent talent for recruitment. This moves talent beyond “AI awareness” into real operational adoption.   We JUST launched a brand-new AI tool discovery platform, which shows you the best-in-class AI tool to use for a particular task. Comment "IVEE" and I'll send you the link to try it! 👇 🔁 Repost this to spread the word and bring AI upskilling to the masses! ✅ Follow me to keep up with the behin-the-scenes of building ivee