We are proud to announce that we have raised over $100M in our latest funding round closed in May. The new capital will help us accelerate our journey to reach a billion learners with upskilling, reskilling and knowledge tools that empower workers across the globe.

The round brings Go1’s total funding to over $400M, increasing our valuation to over $2B. Participants in the round include AirTree Ventures, Blue Cloud Ventures, Five Sigma, Madrona, Salesforce Ventures, and SoftBank Vision Fund 2.

“Companies are embracing the opportunity to programmatically upskill, reskill and empower their workforces, and Go1 has emerged as the go-to provider of learning content to make that opportunity a reality,” said Craig Blair, Founder at AirTree Ventures. “We’re delighted to be a part of Go1’s global journey in building an enduring company at the helm of the Learning & Development ecosystem.”

“Go1 has built a platform that serves the needs of both employers looking to retain and upskill their talent and employees seeking training for their professional and personal development,” said S.Somasegar, Managing Director, Madrona. “Go1’s successful expansion into the US and other global markets means they not only serve global corporations but are uniquely suited for the far flung remote workforces of the next decade. We are excited to work with the team on the next phase of growth.” 

Here at Go1, we are continuing to invest in the rapid growth of our global ecosystem of corporate learning. North America has recently emerged as our largest market, and we have also recently announced a further step into the European market via the acquisition of Coorpacademy, which extends our French and German language content partner offerings and creator reach. 

Similarly, we've expanded our reach in Southeast Asia with offices in Malaysia and Singapore, affording multinationals and local organizations the ability to reskill the enterprise and promote ongoing learning. We've also expanded our content offering with recent announcements of Pluralsight and Harvard Business Publishing content now available to our audience of over 5 million learners. 

“Leading organizations are recognizing the acute need to future-proof their workforces by providing comprehensive learning and development opportunities,” said Andrew Barnes, CEO of Go1. “The incredible team at Go1 has made huge strides in expanding our capabilities and offerings to ensure users have access to education that supports their growth. These recent investments allow Go1 to build on that momentum to explore new content and resources, enabling our platform to meet the needs of every organization and employee, and brings us closer to our goal of supporting one billion learners globally.” 

“Digital transformation and the changing world of work have amplified the need for companies to invest in their people and uplevel their capabilities,” said Peter Mobbs, founding partner of Five Sigma, a global growth fund specializing in EdTech. “Go1 is uniquely suited to help companies tackle this challenge with a comprehensive solution for workplace learning content. We’re proud to have led this latest financing round.”

The new investment round also coincides with key appointments to the executive leadership team (pictured). In addition to recently welcoming Marc Havercroft, formerly of SAP SuccessFactors, we are so excited to welcome:

●      Ashleigh Loughnan, Chief People Officer. Loughnan has more than a decade of experience working in generalist human resources, operational, and leadership roles in both startup and public companies, including Wotif (owned by Expedia). She is responsible for creating different pathways to secure top talent and create and execute a DEI strategy.

●      Ben Allen, Chief Marketing Officer. Allen brings nearly a decade of experience in B2B SaaS go-to-market leadership, including leading marketing at Snapdocs and Apttus (now Conga). He will lead Go1’s marketing strategy and execution globally from the U.S.

●      Antony Ugoni, Chief Data Officer. Ugoni has held a variety of senior leadership positions in data and analytics and is currently Chairperson on the advisory board for the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia. Ugoni will lead Go1’s data and data science teams, serving both internal business intelligence needs and enhancing the Go1 platform’s governance and utility of data.  

●      Jared Goralnick, Senior Vice President, Product Management. Goralnick has a track record of leading innovative and high-performing product teams, most recently holding the position as VP of Product at Upwork. At Go1, he will lead product development efforts globally.

For more insights, subscribe to the Go1 newsletter to stay on top of all the latest L&D trends. Or, you can book a demo today to find out how Go1 can help with your team’s learning needs.

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We are so excited and proud to announce the results of our latest funding round closed in May. Helping with upskilling, reskilling and knowledge tools, this new capital will accelerate us on our journey to reach one billion learners.

Go1 secures fresh support of over $100 million after a year of record growth and international expansion

The HR industry is full of amazing people who are doing amazing things. The UNLEASH America HR technology conference was a great place to learn more about what they're doing, and how they're doing it.

We can't even begin to describe the experience of attending UNLEASH America Technology Conference. The conference was an incredible opportunity to meet some of the biggest names in HR tech, learn about their processes, and have hundreds of conversations with peers and L&D professionals. We absorbed decades of knowledge from these people, and for that, this experience was invaluable!

During the event, we were thrilled to hear from Sam Rogers of ConvaTec about how they use Go1's Content Hub to overcome business challenges. From quick launch to developing various training paths, Sam spoke about how ConvaTec leverages Go1 to improve their jobs, employees, and company.

We also held a reception on day 1 and we couldn't have been more pleased with the turnout. Attendees enjoyed great conversation, appetizers and drinks with Go1 team members and other conference attendees. 

We had a blast meeting new people and catching up with old friends. Thank you all for spending time with us and making it such an incredible experience.

We've got quite a few events coming up over the next couple of months across the globe and can't wait to continue the conversation. Check out our upcoming events here.

The UNLEASH America HR technology conference was a success! Read more about our experience at the event here.

Go1's experience at the UNLEASH America conference 2022

What a week! The ATD 2022 Conference & EXPO was an amazing experience for our team. We were able to network with attendees from around the world, learn about new perspectives on developing talent, maximize potential, and create strategic transformations for organizations and learners.

We had so much fun connecting with other L&D professionals—both old friends and new ones—and we're so grateful for the opportunity to come together with our peers in this field.

⭐️ Networking and interacting with attendees

⭐️ Our fireside chat with customers about how learning overcomes challenges in every industry

Pictured: David Martinez from Sun Coast Credit Union, Karla Rainer from ABC Companies and Stacey Johnson from Moffitt Cancer Centre

⭐️ Mingling with attendees and enjoying appetizers and drinks at our reception 

⭐️ More great conversations and laughs than we can count!

We are so pumped to be able to share all the inspiration and connection we brought home with us from ATD22. It was an action-packed four days.

Looking to get some face-to-face time with us? We've got quite a few events coming up over the next couple of months across the globe and can't wait to continue the conversation. Check out our upcoming events here.

Check out our highlights from the recent ATD 2022 conference. We're so grateful for the opportunity to come together with our peers in this field, and we hope you'll find some of these moments as inspiring and educational as we did!

ATD 2022 recap: Go1 highlights

Our Product, Design & Engineering teams recently held an epic hackathon that levelled up from previous years. The event was mostly virtual with teams taking part from around Australia, Vietnam, and the US. Their challenge was “Go-Gamify” - be inspired by games and gaming technologies to solve a problem for Corporate E-Learning.  

The winning team was the Voodoo Gurus consisting of Jasneet, Tara, Pete, Vivian & Isabel. Their winning pitch was a stand-out as they had designed and validated a new Corporate E-Learning product!  

The winning team - Jasneet Kaur, Tara Hickman, Pete Skalkos, Vivian Nguyen & Isabel Cheung

Graduate Developer Isabel Cheung started at Go1 in March 2022 and couldn’t believe her team had won!  

“The Hackathon was a great learning experience for me and it helped me grow closer with the people in my team. At first, I was shocked by the win, especially as a grad dev who is very new to the whole software developer experience. It was a very intense two days but full of fun, learning and laughter!” 

Team 3D Interactive Learning won both ‘Most Innovative’ and ‘Crowd Favorite’ awards with their virtual learning metaverse created in just 2 days!  

Other prize categories went to ‘Best Technical Application’ and ‘Most Finished Product’.  

Our next event is due to be held in November 2022. If you’d like to get in on the fun... we’re hiring!  

Pete Skalkos, Vivian Nguyen & Isabel Cheung holding the hackathon trophy

Our Product, Design & Engineering teams recently held an epic hackathon that levelled up from previous years. Learn more about the fantastic event here!

Go-Gamify Hackathon  

Revealing the winners of the Go-Gamify Hackathon...  

We are so excited to announce the acquisition of Coorpacademy, an innovative corporate learning platform and content library with a multinational customer base. With offices in France and Switzerland, Coorpacademy will support Go1’s growth plans for Europe, a notable region, expanding its large corporate learning market, and its already vast offerings of digital learning and education resources.

This latest acquisition presents a big opportunity for Go1 and moves the needle closer to our goal of reaching one billion learners globally, as well as highlighting Go1's commitment to continuing momentum of steady growth following its $200M Series D funding round in July 2021. As we continue to scale globally as a leader in the corporate education space, we plan to focus on expansion in the US and Europe but are looking forward to the opportunities of reaching and impacting new regions in the future.

“Go1’s core purpose is to help organisations and learners access great content from thousands of content providers. The combination with Coorpacademy brings an exciting set of new content partners into the mix, and ultimately helps us reach more skills and areas of interest for our customers,” said Andrew Barnes, CEO and co-founder of Go1. “Coorpacademy is already well established in France and Switzerland, and we are excited about this geographic expansion.”

This integration will focus on augmenting existing products and content libraries to ensure that a variety of users have content that fits the needs of their customers. Nearly one million users already utilise Coorpacademy's current offering so its integration into Go1 will accelerate professional growth and development, and support Go1's dedication to the mission of lifelong learning. Additionally, this acquisition will enhance Go1’s existing roots in Europe and extend the e-learning content library in this region to support the growing demand for quality content.

“Go1’s unique approach to learning and development through curated playlists makes this company and leadership team an ideal partner for Coorpacademy,” said Jean-Marc Tassetto, Coorpacademy’s Co-Founder and CEO. “Not only is this a great opportunity for our two companies to come together to make corporate education accessible to millions of learners, but it adds value for existing customers that are prioritizing and expanding their learning and development resources. We are looking forward to building the future of L&D with Go1.” 

Go1 are also super excited to announce that Coorpacademy’s co-founders Arnauld Mitre, Frederick Benichou and Jean-Marc Tassetto will be joining the Go1 leadership team to continue to support company growth and oversee the day-to-day operations for Coorpacademy.

Learn more about Coorpacademy at www.coorpacademy.com

We're excited to unite with Coorpacademy, an innovative corporate learning platform and content library with a multinational customer base.

Go1 and Coorpacademy join forces to diversify content available to learners and expand European reach

We're excited to unite with Coorpacademy, an innovative corporate learning platform and content library with a multinational customer base. 

Go1 is excited to announce the next phase of the partnership with Subscribe-HR. This partnership will provide an all-in-one Cloud HR and eLearning solution to Subscribe-HR’s customers in the Australian and New Zealand markets. 

Go1 is excited to announce the next phase of the partnership with Subscribe-HR, a cutting-edge cloud HR software provider for medium-sized enterprises. This partnership will provide an integrated, all-in-one Cloud HR and eLearning solution to Subscribe-HR’s customers in the Australian and New Zealand markets.  

Subscribe-HR is Australia's only Codeless HR Platform. Their HR software is built on a Platform model that has been designed to offer maximum flexibility so that the customer can get up and running quickly, realising a rapid ROI. If business needs change, customers can reconfigure the system without the need for code, saving time and money on development costs related to customisation. Subscribe-HR delivers the benefits of HR technology to HR specialists and business leaders through their unique Enterprise Cloud HR Software Platform.  

Subscribe-HR has partnered with Go1 to bring to their customers the world's largest digital learning library - fully connected and integrated into Subscribe-HR. The Go1 Content Hub provides Subscribe-HR customers with a diverse range of learning content, whether it be compliance, hard skills, or soft skills development.   

“It’s fantastic to be able to extend our partnership with Subscribe-HR,” says Basem Emera, VP of Partnerships at Go1. The integration provides a frictionless experience for users to attain high quality, in demand learning - resulting in more engagement, and better learning outcomes for their customers. With only a few clicks Subscribe-HR users gain access to over 100,000 learning items from the best providers in the world.”  

Go1’s content focuses on key areas that have maximum impact for HR Managers and Business leaders. Subscribe-HR’s customers can benefit from the opportunities for ongoing employee professional development and upskilling with Go1’s business training content. Plus, customers can ensure they remain legally compliant with Go1’s superior content and eLearning capabilities. 

Subscribe-HR is Australia's only Codeless HR Platform. Meaning you can adapt Subscribe-HR to your HR automation needs quickly and cost effectively. 

Not only does Subscribe-HR come pre-loaded with out-of-the-box, pre-configured content like recruitment and onboarding workflows, contracts, letters of offer, reports and performance reviews; the new Team Dashboards system includes a one-of-a-kind Activation Hub. The Activation Hub is a Dashboard that provides self-activating features that enable free trial users and customers to set up and configure the entire Subscribe-HR system themselves. Everything you need to get your very own Cloud HR Software up and running quickly and easily, all in one spot. 

You can then use the powerful Subscribe-HR configuration tools to easily and cost effectively adapt your unique business requirements into Subscribe-HR to automate your people management. That’s how HR Professionals and Business leaders everywhere can say goodbye to the burden of administration and paperwork, connect with employees and do more of the things that make a difference in the workplace. 

Go1 is excited to announce the next phase of the partnership with Subscribe-HR. This partnership will provide an all-in-one Cloud HR and eLearning solution to Subscribe-HR customers and the Australian market. 

Go1 now bringing workplace training to Subscribe-HR clients

Go1 is excited to announce the next phase of the partnership with Subscribe-HR. This partnership will provide an all-in-one Cloud HR and eLearning solution to Subscribe-HR’s customers in the Australian and New Zealand markets.

Go1 now bringing workplace eLearning training to Subscribe-HR clients

Aaron Tait is the Co-Founder and Director of Innovation at Education Changemakers focused on identifying and engaging with ideas that lead to rapid and scaled global impact.

In a world with more than 70 million educators, we’ve decided to think differently about teacher training…

In 2011, in a Sydney bar, we wrote the first ideas for Education Changemakers on a napkin.

Aaron had just returned to Australia after running a school for at-risk children in a Tanzanian township. Dave was working as regional director of schools in the Northern Territory following his leadership of the transformation of Halls Creek District High School.

On the napkin, we sketched out a professional development program that would focus on supporting educators to step up as high-impact changemakers in their schools. A few months later we launched EC, and got to work.

In the ten years since the EC team has engaged with hundreds of thousands of educators around the world. If you have been part of the EC journey you’ve attended one of our workshops, come along to events we’ve run, engaged in a student challenge we’ve launched, listened to our podcast, or read our books. Over the years we’ve heard so many stories of teacher-led change, and whilst there are too many changemakers to name, please know that we see you, and are blown away.

In the last few years Dave and I have thought a great deal about how we can learn from this past decade of effort, and bounce off the trampoline that we’ve built to reach a whole new level of scale.

And that brings us to this moment, and the news we have to share…

Which is that Education Changemakers is joining forces with Go1.

Go1 is a very exciting learning company that already engages millions of people with more than 100,000 online professional development courses. In 2022 we have come together to grow what we hope will be a powerful, engaging, and inspiring way for teachers and school leaders to engage in high-impact professional development from the world’s best providers.

Of course, EC will continue to provide the programs that people have come to know us for, but at the same time, we will be rapidly growing our team and our new learning approach. Becoming a part of the Go1 family will allow us to work at a speed and scale that we are incredibly excited about.

We might need a few more napkins to sketch this new strategy on, but we are also going to need a bunch more people to join the team. If you are interested in working with us, send an email to aaron@educationchangemakers.com.

We’ll be sharing more soon, but until then, and as always… together, for a better world for every child.

Education Changemakers and Go1 have come together to grow a powerful, engaging, and inspiring way for teachers and school leaders to engage in high-impact professional development.

Education Changemakers and Go1 join forces

Education Changemakers joins forces with Go1 

With over 7,660 new learning resources added to the Go1 Content library since December 2020, we are excited that the diversity of our digital learning library continues to grow. 

Our improvements, integrations, and resource additions are consistently driven by our goal to provide quality and accessible learning. We have summarised below a handful of the many exciting changes and updates rolled out over the last 12 months. 

Over 7,660 new courses were added to the Go1 Content library 

15 new learning providers from the US, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Italy, Philippines, New Zealand, and France 

Topics ranging from Cyber Security, Resiliency, Learning Agility, Artificial Intelligence to Change Management and much more 

Popular new key playlists including the L&D Emerging Stronger Series and Pride at Work

Renewed content selector tool – making it easier to browse, curate, and share training with your learners effectively 

Playlists continue to grow and develop, mirroring needs, demands, and trends across industries and regions 

Improved methods to assign and manage learning through the Admin Manage feature 

Reporting improvements - duration analytics and the ability to report on team-specific learning under ‘manager’ and ‘learner’ relationships 

﻿Improvements to customization and branding of the sign-in page and 'Welcome' messaging, including the ability to preview changes before applying them

Learning in the flow app integrations with Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Search, Microsoft Viva, and Workplace from Meta 

Audio learning content, allowing you to listen while you work

Smart searching options, including the ability to save learning while browsing, new search suggestions, and new search filters for regions, dialects, and learning competency levels

Learn at your own pace – with playback speed features on video learning resources

Course feedback – helping Go1 provide top quality course recommendations for learners 

A dedicated Customer Implementation team 

Consistently growing and up-skilled Support and CSM teams, across all time zones 

Technology investments for seamless issue and support activity management, across teams 

We've simplified the process for submitting tickets so that you can get help quicker with less effort

This is only the beginning, with the next few months alone bringing more exciting updates to the Go1 platform and content library, so stay tuned for more announcements in the new year. 

Improvements, expansions and integrations. We’re just getting started.

Year in review 2021

Improvements, expansions and integrations. We’re just getting started. Here, we summarise a handful of the many exciting changes and updates rolled out over the last 12 months.

The Emerging Stronger team combines the expertise of Michelle Ockers, Shannon Tipton and Laura Overton, award winning L&D industry analysts and strategists who have been working together to empower L&D leaders to take bold action to positively influence business value. 

Over the past 18 months, Emerging Stronger has established a reputation for independent evidence based thinking through their global masterclasses, podcast and resources designed to support the post pandemic world of L&D.

Andrew Barnes, CEO of Go1, said: “We have been working with the Emerging Stronger team over the past year and we value the team’s independent evidence informed perspective.”  

“We are pleased to be involved in this publishing partnership as it aligns with our mission to bring independent content to learners around the globe, including individuals and leaders responsible for the learning of others so that individuals, teams and organisations are better equipped to adapt and grow,” Barnes said.

As a result of this partnership, the Emerging Stronger team will develop a range of resources including eBooks, tools, and research reports to support L&D leaders as they upskill their workforces today to address the challenges of tomorrow

The Emerging Stronger Team will begin their publishing partnership with Go1 with a focus on:

Developing a range of evidence-based resources (eBooks and tools)

Hosting community events that explore collective wisdom and uncover actions to increase business value

Sharing evidence informed insight to encourage and build a future proofed L&D

All to support the mission of both to support L&D leaders as they continue the work to upskill and reskill their workforces. 

Laura Overton (UK market), Shannon Tipton (USA market), Michelle Ockers (APAC market), say:

"Our sole focus is to help L&D take the bold action needed to drive better business value. We love working with Go1’s energetic teams around the globe as they realise their vision. This partnership demonstrates their commitment to independent thinking and making useful, accessible content available to those who need it."

The partnership also demonstrates Go1’s ongoing support of the Emerging Stronger Masterclass which provides an opportunity for L&D leaders to adopt transformational perspectives to drive business value. The agreement not only allows the creation of new resources to educate and inform L&D globally but also provides financial support to participants who enter the programme as a scholarship holder.

Emerging Stronger has announced a publishing partnership with Go1, the world's largest corporate education content hub for on-demand training and resources, aimed at supporting learning and development leaders to drive better business value in the changing workplace.

Go1 enters new partnership to help L&D leaders adapt and thrive

A new publishing partnership with Emerging Stronger aims at supporting learning and development leaders to drive better business value in the changing workplace.

Go1 enters new partnership to help L&D leaders adapt and thrive 

From time to time, the question comes up: does Go1 invest in other companies? We think about that question in the context of how we achieve our mission to unlock positive potential through a love of learning.   

There is so much potential in the world, and so many opportunities to help people learn better. We see this every day in how fostering a love of learning can help people get new jobs, be more effective at their work, deliver better for their customers, and develop themselves as individuals. The world is moving quickly, and learning needs to as well. 

At Go1, the main way we’re helping to unlock that potential is by building the world’s best subscription library for corporate learning, and by opening up our technology for content creators to deliver excellent training to their customers directly. We think there’s a better way to get access to the learning and development experiences employers, employees, and citizens need, and we’re proud to be building it at Go1. 

However, we’re not the only people with amazing ideas about how to unlock people’s positive potential, and how to make learning and development better. There are lots and lots of great companies out there making products that we think are pretty great, and so wherever we can we like to help those companies succeed. 

One way we do that is by working with our content partners and our affiliate partners to help them build great businesses of their own. For content partners, that often looks like providing an additional income stream by being part of Go1 Premium. And on top of that, providing them with data and analytics to identify what the next great bit of content they should build is.  

It could also look like using Go1 Connect to deliver their content to wherever they want it to be. For our affiliate partners, that looks like providing Go1 Premium alongside their own great products to produce an amazing L&D experience for their customers. 

Another way we do that is by investing in great companies who are building amazing things we want to see in the world, and our investment can help catalyze. We’re not a VC fund, but we do like backing great companies where we think one plus one can be (much, much) greater than two.   

One example of this is News Over Audio (Noa). Noa makes it convenient for time-sensitive people to understand and know more about the news that matters, in minutes. Their editors work with some of the world’s biggest publications to curate and consciously package articles in a way that guides you through the biggest news topics. Their team of celebrated narrators then read these articles word-for-word so that you can listen anytime, anywhere. 

Why we have invested in Noa is that we see in them a company that is building a great product to make it easier for people to learn about the world around them. In this case, by putting great content into a format that is easier for people to find time to understand. We think Noa’s product is highly complementary with Go1’s own, so much so that we offer every Noa listener a Go1 learner record so they can connect up all of the things they’re learning. We also offer Noa subscriptions to all of our own staff for free. 

 Another set of examples are companies we have partnered with to co-fund the creation of amazing content we want to see in the world. Our content partners are building fantastic learning experiences, and when the right opportunity comes up for us to catalyze that content being made sooner, better, we co-fund its creation.   

A great example of this is our work with social impact organizations to help them create L&D content so that the impact of their missions can live on in the workplace. We're proud of our work with organisations like Challenge DV and Beyond Blue, that has brought learning experiences on important social topics that people can watch and re-watch at their own pace. 

So hopefully that’s given you a taste of how Go1 thinks about our mission of unlocking positive potential through a love of learning, and how investing in other companies can help achieve that mission. 

At Go1, our mission is to unlock the positive of potential of over a billion people through a love of learning. The main way we’re doing that is by building the world’s best subscription library for corporate learning. But we’re also doing that by investing in other companies who we think are building amazing things.

How does Go1 think about investing in other companies?

At Go1, our mission is to unlock the positive of potential of over a billion people through a love of learning. The main ways we’re doing that is by building the world’s best content for corporate learning and by investing in other companies who are building amazing things.

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