ivee
Techstars '24London, GB · Founded 2024 · 81 employees on LinkedIn · 13 known investors
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Ivee provides AI training, strategy, and policy development services for organizational teams, including custom training programs, AI audits, policy writing, and tool integration guidance.
Also known as Ivee · ivee.jobs
Founders & leadership
ivee was founded in 2024 by Lydia Miller and Amelia Miller.


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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$33M disclosed across 1 round · 2025
- $33MSeries AJan 2025 · 2 sources
PIF, Tribe Capital
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026ivee is a London-based company that helps organisations and individuals build practical AI capability. For businesses it runs four service lines: strategy and governance work for C-suite and executive teams (including AI policy, data security and governance standards, delivered through a focused strategy day and a written plan); bespoke AI training built as a three-to-five week programme around a team's existing workflows and tools; diagnostic and ROI engagements that audit an organisation and quantify where AI will pay off; and AI automation builds, where its engineers rebuild processes using voice agents and n8n automations. A tracking product called Lighthouse gives clients continuing visibility into AI usage, spend, hours saved and where AI output is low value.
On the individual and workforce side, ivee helps people identify which AI skills are worth learning for their role and industry, build verified AI Skills Profiles that update as they complete micro-lessons and assessments, and be hired or promoted on that basis. The product combines short, task-centred learning with a verification layer and a searchable talent network that employers can use to source candidates with demonstrable fluency in areas such as prompting, tool orchestration, automation workflows and AI-native thinking. Named client engagements include Lucky Saint (bespoke training), Founders Forum (AI diagnostic and strategy), Seep (diagnostic and ROI), Pawd (customer service automation) and CoworkHer (flagship upskilling programme).
Founding story
Sisters Amelia and Lydia Miller founded ivee after watching their mother, an accountant, attempt to return to work after raising three daughters and be offered roles far below her experience level; sources describe her taking a 60% pay cut to re-enter the workforce. Amelia had begun her career in sales and trading at Goldman Sachs and Lydia was a corporate venture capital investor at Deloitte Ventures scouting ClimateTech and Future of Work startups; both left those roles to build the company, which one source dates to 2023.
Business model
ivee sells paid services and programmes to employers — strategy days, bespoke multi-week training programmes, diagnostics and automation builds — supported by Lighthouse, its ROI and usage tracking product. It also operates a talent network of individuals with verified AI skills profiles that employers use to hire AI-fluent candidates, and offers a flagship upskilling programme positioned as accessible to small teams without bespoke budgets.
Revenue comes from business engagements (strategy and governance, bespoke AI training programmes, diagnostic/ROI work and automation builds) and from platform products including Lighthouse tracking and AI programmes accessed via user login; pricing is discussed on a per-engagement basis following an introductory call.
Traction
Sources report more than 70,000 members upskilled, a talent network of more than 80,000 candidates with verified AI skills profiles, and more than 42,000 monthly organic visitors to the platform, alongside named client case studies including Lucky Saint, Founders Forum, Seep, Pawd and CoworkHer; one automation is reported to save a founder eight hours per week.
Latest developments
In early March 2026 ivee announced a £745,000 ($1m) seed round led by Social Impact Enterprises with a syndicate of angels including Steven Bartlett and partners from Dawn Capital and Balderton, earmarked for product development, growing the talent pool and deepening employer and training-provider partnerships. The company was also named the UK Government's primary events partner for a £2bn AI upskilling initiative.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
ivee operates in the AI upskilling and HRtech segment, combining learning, credentialing and talent-marketplace functions as organisations adopt AI tools faster than workforces can absorb them. It has been selected as the UK Government's primary events partner for a £2bn AI upskilling initiative, placing it at the intersection of public skills policy and private workforce tooling.
ivee positions its training as bespoke rather than generic off-the-shelf courses, built around a client's existing tools and workflows and preceded by a gap-finding audit, with measurement continuing after delivery via Lighthouse. Its verification layer converts completed lessons and assessments into dynamic AI Skills Profiles, linking learning to a searchable talent network for internal mobility and external recruitment, and its engineering team delivers automations where tools or training are insufficient.
Technology
The platform curates AI tools and delivers practical micro-lessons tied to real tasks, maintains dynamic AI Skills Profiles that update with lesson and assessment completion, and provides managers with organisation-wide capability visibility. Lighthouse tracks AI spend, usage, hours saved and output quality. Automation work includes voice agents and n8n-based workflow automations; earlier product descriptions reference behavioural nudges, learning modules and ATS-integrated hiring tools, and one source describes ivee as an agentic AI platform.
Go-to-market
The company grew through organic content marketing, SEO and PR rather than paid acquisition, building a community alongside the product, and uses televised exposure from Dragons' Den. Business sales run through a "book a call" consultation model with published case studies, and the company works with employers and training providers in the UK and internationally.
Employers and their leadership, HR and L&D teams seeking to raise workforce AI fluency, spanning sectors including FMCG and financial services; smaller teams and startups; and individual professionals — originally women returning to work after career breaks, later broadened to professionals generally.
Geography
Headquartered in the UK, with partnerships with employers and training providers across the UK and internationally; the founders have spoken at London Tech Week.
History
ivee launched as a job platform for women returning to work after career breaks, with a marketplace connecting returners to tailored job opportunities, upskilling and community, alongside ATS-integrated hiring tools for employers. The founders then repositioned the business toward AI upskilling, rebuilding product, messaging, positioning, pricing, customer segments and roadmap while continuing to operate the existing business. The company raised a £220k round in March 2024, appeared on BBC's Dragons' Den where it received four offers and closed investment from Steven Bartlett and Deborah Meaden, and announced a $1m seed round in early March 2026.
Risks & controversies
The company executed a substantial pivot from a returners' job platform to AI upskilling, requiring rebuilds of product, positioning and pricing while running a live business, and its commercial thesis depends on converting verified skills data into reliable hiring signals and measurable AI adoption gains.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 2
by search overlapCompanies competing with ivee for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 5
launches, deals, and filingsSeed round backed by Social Impact Enterprises alongside angel investors including Steven Bartlett and participating partners from Dawn Capital and Balderton, to build out the AI upskilling platform and talent network.
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The founders appeared on BBC's Dragons' Den with two hours' notice, received four offers and closed investment from Steven Bartlett and Deborah Meaden.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- iveeivee.jobs · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does ivee do?
- UK company offering AI upskilling, strategy and automation services for teams, plus a verified AI skills profile and talent network.
- Who founded ivee?
- ivee was founded by Lydia Miller, Amelia Miller in 2024.
- Who are ivee's investors?
- ivee's investors include Techstars, Agent Capital, FJ Labs, Gaingels, humbition, Looking Glass Capital, Tribe Capital Firstlook.
- How much funding has ivee raised?
- ivee has disclosed $33M raised across 1 round.
- Where is ivee headquartered?
- ivee is headquartered in London, GB.




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