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Skilladder provides AI-powered, context-based skill assessments that generate verified skills profiles for candidates, helping employers screen, assess, place, and develop talent based on demonstrated ability. The platform targets hiring and workforce development, with a stated focus on building skills infrastructure for the African workforce.
Also known as Skill Ladder · Skilladder
Founders & leadership
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Skilladder AI is a Lagos, Nigeria-based education technology company founded in 2024 that builds workforce verification infrastructure intended to help employers and training programmes identify the practical capabilities of entry-level talent. Rather than focusing solely on course delivery, the company positions its offering around evidence of competence: learning resources, continuous skills assessments, simulated test environments, and verified competency profiles that can be presented to prospective employers.
The company frames its work around a gap in the Nigerian labour market, where many young people complete training programmes without the practical competence or demonstrable evidence of skills needed to secure employment, a gap described as falling disproportionately on young women. Its stated emphasis is on helping learners, particularly young women and girls, build applied competence and receive actionable feedback ahead of entering the workforce. As of its listing in the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship directory, the company had a team size of one and was led by founder Kehinde Banasko.
Founding story
Skilladder AI was founded in 2024 in Lagos, Nigeria by Kehinde Banasko, listed as the company's sole founder and team member.
Latest developments
Participation in the 2024 Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, Cohort IV, through which the programme says it will support the team in strengthening its assessment and employability approach.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Positioned as workforce verification infrastructure within the Nigerian edtech and employability sector, supported through the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship.
Emphasis on verified, assessment-based evidence of practical competence for entry-level candidates, rather than course completion or knowledge acquisition alone.
Technology
The company's approach combines access to learning resources, continuous skills assessment, simulated test environments that allow skills to be applied under realistic conditions, and verified competency profiles that record what a learner can do.
Go-to-market
Employers and training programmes seeking to evaluate entry-level talent, and learners entering the Nigerian workforce, with a stated focus on young women and girls.
Geography
Based in Lagos, Nigeria, with a stated focus on outcomes for young Nigerians.
History
The company was founded in 2024 and was selected into Cohort IV of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, profiled through the Co-Creation Hub Future of Learning startup directory.
Compiled by commissioned research from 4 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.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsSkilladder AI was named to Cohort IV of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, run through the Co-Creation Hub Future of Learning programme, which provides support to strengthen the company's approach to workforce readiness and employability for young Nigerians.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 4
primary sources listed
- Skilladder AI - Future of Learningfutureoflearning.cchub.africa · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Skilladder do?
- Nigerian edtech building workforce verification infrastructure that evidences what entry-level talent can actually do.
- Who founded Skilladder?
- Skilladder was founded by Kehinde Banasko.
- Who are Skilladder's investors?
- Skilladder's investors include Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), LoftyInc Capital.