Spotted Zebra
Spotted Zebra’s award-winning skills-based workforce management platform enables the world’s largest enterprises to make skills-based decisions throughout the talent lifecycle – from hiring to reskilling to succession planning.
The skills gap crisis is one of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. Skills shortages will cost businesses $11.5 trillion in lost growth by 2030, according to World Economic Forum estimates. Adopting a skills-based approach to talent management might be the way forward for organizations, but not without the tools to assess, validate and source skills.
Spotted Zebra’s platform combines industry-leading assessment science, AI and human expertise to enable organizations to place skills at the center of every decision they make about people. Each role is associated to a Skills Profile that defines the behavioral and technical skills required for success. Spotted Zebra assesses and validates the skills of employees and applicants, allowing managers to identify the best possible fit for each opportunity. It also uses these insights for hiring, development, reskilling and workforce planning. This results in happier, more productive staff, more effective talent management, and no more skills shortages.
Founders
Ian Monk
CEO
Ian is a serial tech entrepreneur who has covered both CEO and CTO roles in his career. Previous to Spotted Zebra, Ian successfully founded Bathrooms.com, a VC backed technology, data and digital marketing led e-commerce business, which was sold to Travis Perkins in 2018.
Nick Shaw
CCO
Nick is a qualified occupational psychologist and one of the UK’s leading authorities on psychometric testing and talent management. He has previously held senior leadership positions at SHL and 10x Psychology.
Milestones
Founded at Entrepreneur First
Seed ($1.6 million) led by Playfair Capital
Spotted Zebra’s Hiring application wins the Gold Award in Candidate Assessment at the In-House Recruitment Awards
Series A (£7.7 million) led by Nauta Capital