Scholé AI, an AI-native workforce learning platform, raises $3 million in funding to expand adoption, hire, and continue building its adaptive learning product. The round was led by ACE Ventures with participation from The House Fund and FundF.
The company positions its platform as a response to common challenges faced by businesses. In other words, while organizations are rapidly deploying AI tools, employees often lack training that is timely, practical, and tailored to their actual day-to-day work. Scholé AI says its approach replaces static courses with an agent learning engine that delivers short, interactive lessons tailored to the learner’s role, tools, and tasks while remaining based on a company’s internal workflows and materials. As learners progress, the platform adjusts difficulty, lesson format, and learning preferences in real time.
Scholé AI was founded by Dr. Vinitra Swamy, CEO and co-founder, and Dr. Paola Mejia, CTO and co-founder. He recently completed his PhD in EPFL’s Educational Machine Learning Lab and has over 10 years of experience in AI-driven education. The company is independent from research conducted at EPFL and the University of California, Berkeley, and says its founders have translated academic research into commercial products.
A key initial use case is closing the AI skills gap by teaching employees how to apply AI to their daily work. Cholet also partnered with Harvard University to co-develop an AI intensive course, and said learners from hundreds of global companies, including Bank of America, NASA, Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple, are currently learning on its platform. The program was recently recognized by Forbes magazine as the best way to learn about AI agents for 2026, the company said. In Switzerland, Scholé is piloting personalized learning solutions in collaboration with companies such as Swisscom, Decathlon and Coop.
ACE Ventures Partner Steve Salom said the investment reflects confidence in the team’s technical depth in machine learning for education and its ability to translate that expertise into practical products for enterprises seeking measurable AI adoption. Scholé AI says the new funding will help organizations move from experimenting with AI to improving productivity by enabling employees to learn and adapt as technology evolves.
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“While the adoption of AI is accelerating, learning remains largely static. Decades ago, the internet democratized access to knowledge, allowing anyone to find answers at the click of a button. We are now in a similar moment with AI and learning, where every lifelong learner can find a teacher who is right for them. There is no one-size-fits-all training anymore. That is the future of learning, and that is what we are building at Cholet.”
Vinitra Swamy, CEO and Co-Founder of Scholé AI
“We are proud to lead Scholé’s round. This team combines deep education ML expertise with practical product experience. Scholé’s AI-native, role-specific learning is a game-changer that bridges the front-line hiring gap, delivering context-aware training within the flow of work.”
Steve Salom, Partner, ACE Ventures
