UBITS
YC S18Bogotá, CO · Founded 2018 · 300 employees · 9 known investors
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UBITS is a modular AI-powered HR platform that helps organizations recruit, train, and develop their teams across Latin America. The platform provides real-time workforce analytics, automated candidate screening, and learning management capabilities integrated with existing infrastructure.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHR TechSaaSEducationeLearningB2BMexicoChilePeruPanamaLatin AmericaFully Remote
Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S18)
UBITS was founded in 2018 by Julián Melo.
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Julián MeloinFounderJulián Melo is Co-Founder and CEO of UBITS, an AI-powered HR platform serving organizations across Latin America with recruitment, training, and workforce development tools. He has previously worked in corporate learning and writes on leadership and the future of work.
Investors · 9
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements- Undisclosed amountSeries BJan 2022Source ↗
- Undisclosed amountSeries AJun 2021
Owl Ventures (lead), Amador Holdings, Salkantay Ventures
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
The YC application· Summer 2018 batch
What they told YC
- What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.
- UBITS is a corporate e-learning company that uses a feature-based machine learning approach to build personalized learning paths and adaptive evaluations from its own content, adjusting to each employee's behavior, learning preferences (video, podcast, article, reading), career level, and role. It aims to train employees faster with better retention at a competitive cost, offering short personalized content taught by industry experts.
Summarized from the founders' answers on their Y Combinator profile.
Competitors · 5
by search overlap
Runa43 shared keywordsRuna is an HR management platform that automates payroll, employee onboarding, offboarding, training, performance tracking, and compliance processes through AI agents. It serves businesses across multiple industries in Latin America, particularly Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.
Crehana33 shared keywordsCrehana offers an HR platform for companies in Latin America that connects recruitment, people management, training, performance, and workplace climate management in a single tool, with real-time analytics and AI-generated insights. It serves enterprise HR teams and reports over 1,200 companies in LATAM as clients.
lapzo28 shared keywordsLapzo is an AI-powered talent development platform that maps competencies, personalizes learning plans, and evaluates employee performance for organizations. The platform combines skills assessments, personalized development pathways, and performance management tools to align employee growth with business objectives.
Platzi27 shared keywordsPlatzi offers online courses on user research methods and techniques, including qualitative and quantitative approaches, for individuals seeking to master UX research practices.
Iadb25 shared keywordsThe Inter-American Development Bank Group provides financing and knowledge to support public sector, private companies, and entrepreneurial innovation across Latin America and the Caribbean. It comprises the IDB, IDB Invest, and IDB Lab, working on development priorities such as security, care, and resilience.
Companies competing with UBITS for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does UBITS do?
- UBITS is a modular AI-powered HR platform that helps organizations recruit, train, and develop their teams across Latin America. The platform provides real-time workforce analytics, automated candidate screening, and learning management capabilities integrated with existing infrastructure.
- Who founded UBITS?
- UBITS was founded by Julián Melo in 2018.
- Who are UBITS's investors?
- UBITS's investors include Amador Holdings, Capria Ventures, Magma Partners, Owl Ventures, Riverwood Capital, Roble Ventures, Salkantay Ventures, Startups and 1 more.
- Where is UBITS headquartered?
- UBITS is headquartered in Bogotá, CO.