HR Tech Startup Talentguide Raises €1.3M To Expand Skills Management Across Europe

The funding round included participation from NXT II, Travvant (Partena Professional), Miles Ahead Capital, imec.istart, the company’s founders, and entrepreneurs Ewout Meyns, Koen Handekyn, and Jan Delaere.

The investment comes as organisations confront growing challenges with workforce skills and planning. Automation is rapidly changing the competencies needed, yet many companies lack visibility into the skills their workers already possess especially blue-collar employees, whose abilities are often undocumented making upskilling, reskilling, and long-term talent planning more difficult.

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Based in Ghent’s Wintercircus innovation hub, talentguide helps mid-sized and large organisations map, develop, and plan workforce skills through its AI-powered SaaS platform.

We previously spoke with Filip Tack, CEO, and Julia Beatrice Toussaint, Chief of Product, about the company’s approach and vision.

Using AI and natural language processing, the platform organises skills across tasks, traits, and knowledge domains. It supports personalised employee development, performance management, and strategic workforce planning for both office and blue-collar workers and can be deployed quickly without complex installations.

Talentguide builds its skills intelligence from existing unstructured company data such as CVs, job descriptions, work instructions, evaluations, and system integrations to create a skills-based job architecture and evaluate 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.

The platform also predicts future skill needs, such as those driven by automation, and supports employee development with AI-generated personalized growth plans.

Organisations like Travvant, MCC Verstraete, Banqup, Robovision, mtech+, and Syntra Bizz are already using talentguide’s skills intelligence platform.

The new funding will help expand talentguide’s revenue, product, and engineering teams, with plans to hire software and AI engineers, as well as customer success professionals.

About Talentguide

Talentguide provides AI-powered skills intelligence via a ready-to-use SaaS platform, helping organisations optimise talent development and strategic workforce planning. By mapping, assessing, and forecasting workforce skills, the platform enables personalised employee growth, smarter reskilling and data-driven decisions, supporting both office and blue-collar teams for long-term organisational success.