Belgium-based knowledge and training platform for SMEs, Whale, has bagged €1 million in funding from Volta Ventures, Peak Capital, and the founding team.
The new funding will fast-track Whale’s global expansion and marketing initiatives. It will also help them improve their product and augment their international sales and marketing efforts.
About the startup
Bram Billiet and Gary Vanbutsele founded Whale in 2018. The SaaS startup helps teams centralize their processes, techniques, policies, and tribal knowledge in one place, so they can recruit and train employees faster. Its web platform and web plugin empower teams with bite-size training content, within the background of their work and on-time delivery. The startup mainly caters to service companies with knowledge workers and companies that use frameworks such as EOS or Scaling up.
Gary Vanbutsele had previously led an IT services firm and knows how laborious educating employees the traditional way can get. He said that sometimes it felt like all he did was repeat himself over and over again without any real progress. He was searching for a more scalable and efficient way to empower his teams with the knowledge they required.
Whale’s aim is to help companies develop in the most efficient and effective way possible, achieved by its 4 core components that are:
- Create: It helps companies process document, procedures, and company policies. Its editor helps create bite-sized dynamic content with text, images, videos, and more.
- Maintain: Whale’s board interface offers an easy to overview structure of all of the operational knowledge. It helps organise and maintain operational knowledge in a centralised hub that is easy to keep up-to-date.
- Share: After the documentation, with the company’s plug-and-play web extension, users can share that information to onboard, train, and reinforce the right knowledge to the right people. As a manager, the platform allows users to select who should be trained on what as well as provide the progress of their learners.
- Measure: With the measure component, Whale gives users new insights on what processes are working and which need improvement so their company can keep on growing the right way.
Gary while commenting on the funding said, “We are very excited to bring not one, but two experienced partners onboard that will empower us in our mission to help companies train and work more effectively.”
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