As firms push to extend effectivity and keep aggressive, they’re encouraging, or in some circumstances outright requiring, employees to know easy methods to use AI instruments. Nonetheless, the push for AI use has uncovered a coaching hole. 

“There are few options accessible in the marketplace which might be devoted to non-technical folks,” Aureliusz Gorski, founder and CEO of Warsaw-based CampusAI, advised TechCrunch. 

CampusAI’s resolution? An academic platform centered on making studying accessible to on a regular basis individuals who wish to deliver AI into their on a regular basis workflows — whether or not that’s to assist enhance gross sales, HR, authorized, or simply give your private branding a lift with AI. The platform goals to assist folks perceive and work with AI, reasonably than be intimidated by it. 

The Polish startup spoke to TechCrunch forward of the TechCrunch Disrupt convention, the place it’s a Startup Battlefield High 20 finalist. CampusAI’s essential product is a complete on-line studying ecosystem with two key parts: programs that includes an avatar-based studying mannequin and a digital campus within the metaverse the place customers can be taught extra expertise, join with others, take part in neighborhood initiatives, and extra. Consider it like Roblox for adults.

CampusAI provides its studying platform on to shoppers or to companies that wish to create AI upskilling paths for workers. The startup says it offers entry to dozens of AI fashions — from ChatGPT and Gemini to Midjourney and Flux — so customers can experiment and be taught in a single place while not having to enroll in separate accounts and subscriptions. The crew additionally updates programs day-after-day to maintain up with the quick tempo of technological change. 

CampusAI’s flagship course for shoppers is named Me+AI, priced at $250 per 12 months, and it permits college students to personalize their studying expertise. The B2B product, known as Crew+AI, is priced at $25,000 per 12 months.  

“We’re serving to with the implementation of the human plus AI readiness tradition [within companies], serving to firms go easily with this transition,” Gorski stated. 

The primary three weeks of Crew+AI embrace an AI readiness take a look at for the group, a workshop for managers, and a webinar for the whole group. The final 4 weeks characteristic customized improvement paths for workers which have been tailored to satisfy firm targets.  

“You possibly can are available as an expert of a discipline, say, an HR knowledgeable, or somebody who works in finance, and then you definately’ll discover a batch of programs for your self,” Aleksandra Przegalińska, an AI researcher and scientific adviser to CampusAI, advised TechCrunch. “CampusAI is able to making ready particular pathways for particular organizations to allow them to do a tailored strategy.” 

CampusAI’s studying methodology is predicated off Przegalińska’s analysis on human-AI collaboration for improved enterprise outcomes and complicated problem-solving. The strategy facilities on utilizing prompting methods to develop AI specialists that help people in enhancing their capabilities.

As such, CampusAI college students have entry to the corporate’s immediate guide, which not solely provides a repository of prompts, but in addition coaches college students to discover ways to construct higher prompts. Throughout the digital campus setting, college students also can go to the “AI Fitness center” — a platform the place college students deal with focused workout routines and challenges created by an AI agent that gives ongoing evaluation. 

“We wish to construct an setting the place you don’t delegate duties to AI, however reasonably, you’re employed with it in a number of totally different modalities,” Przegalińska stated. “You possibly can work in parallel with it, it may possibly grow to be your teammate, your sparring associate, your critic, or your coach. We consider this expertise as one thing that’s enhancing your work, not one thing that’s taking up your work.” 

CampusAI claims its programs produce a measurable ROI, with workers turning into 40% extra environment friendly and 60% extra glad with their jobs. And the two-year-old firm seems to have had some severe traction.

“It was big success in Poland within the first two weeks,” Gorski stated, noting the corporate launched in 2023. “We bought over 600 shoppers who determined to purchase our lifetime membership, and from that second, we grew to 35,000 customers.” 

CampusAI additionally boasts 60 enterprise clients, together with ING, T-Cellular, Lenovo, and Ikea, and is on observe for greater than $2 million in ARR in 2025. The corporate is at present elevating a $20 million Collection A to assist it increase to 40 markets by 2030. CampusAI, which provides its program immediately in Polish, English, and Spanish, has lately expanded into the U.Okay. and the U.S., with a concentrate on constructing B2B gross sales earlier than branching into D2C.  

Customers who full the programs and wish to uncover extra will be invited to hitch Neighborhood+AI, a digital hub for members to attach, share data, and collaborate on initiatives — like hAI Journal, a web-based journal the place customers can share sector-specific insights.  

Past its studying setting, Gorski stated CampusAI’s digital twin expertise has grow to be a serious worth proposition. As an alternative of simply working its personal digital campus, CampusAI desires to construct and license digital twins of real-life college campuses, company showrooms, authorities establishments, or firm headquarters for organizations’ unique use. The digital twins product begins at $100,000 per 12 months.  

CampusAI lately secured €18 million from the European Fee to collaborate with 11 universities throughout 10 international locations — together with Greece, Spain, the U.Okay., France, Luxembourg, and Germany — to create digital twins and customised studying environments for college kids.  

Gorski views these college partnerships as launchpads for native innovation hubs — an strategy knowledgeable by his seven years at Cambridge Innovation Heart, the place he created over 10 applications to develop Warsaw’s startup neighborhood. These digital environments are designed as catalysts for constructing native communities and digital districts, in the end making a social platform tailor-made for entrepreneurs. 

He emphasised that fostering sturdy native ecosystems is essential to counter massive tech dominance. 

“We consider folks ought to concentrate on constructing sturdy native ecosystems, as a result of if not, the following 5 years will in all probability have much less and fewer startups, particularly after what we noticed lately with OpenAI offering extra options inside one ecosystem,” he stated. 

If you wish to be taught extra about CampusAI from the corporate itself — whereas additionally testing dozens of others, listening to their pitches, and listening to visitor audio system on 4 totally different levels — be a part of us at Disrupt, October 27 to 29 in San Francisco. Study extra right here.