In a drive to improve efficiency and maintain a competitive edge, companies are encouraging, and in some cases outright requiring, employees to know how to use AI tools. However, the push to use AI has exposed training gaps.
“There are very few solutions available on the market exclusively for non-technical people,” Aureliusz Gorski, founder and CEO of Warsaw-based CampusAI, told TechCrunch.
CampusAI’s solution? An education platform focused on making learning accessible to ordinary people who want to bring AI into their daily workflows, whether it’s to help improve sales, HR, legal, or simply enhance their personal branding with AI. The platform aims to help people understand and leverage AI, rather than be intimidated by it.
The Polish startup spoke to TechCrunch ahead of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, where it was named a Startup Battlefield Top 20 finalist. CampusAI’s main product is a comprehensive online learning ecosystem with two major components. Courses featuring an avatar-based learning model and a virtual campus in the Metaverse where users can learn more skills, connect with others, and participate in community projects. Think of it like Roblox for adults.
CampusAI provides a learning platform directly to consumers or businesses who want to create an AI upskilling path for their employees. The startup says it provides access to dozens of AI models, from ChatGPT and Gemini to Midjourney and Flux, so users can experiment and learn in one place without having to sign up for separate accounts or subscriptions. The team also updates the courses daily to keep up with the fast pace of technological change.
CampusAI’s flagship consumer course is called Me+AI, costs $250 per year, and allows students to personalize their learning experience. The B2B product, called Team+AI, costs $25,000 per year.
“We are helping to implement a culture of human and AI readiness (within companies) to help companies navigate this transition smoothly,” Gorsky said.
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The first three weeks of Team+AI will include an AI readiness test for organizations, a workshop for managers, and an organization-wide webinar. The last four weeks will feature a customized development path for your employees, tailored to meet your company’s goals.
“If you join as an expert in a field, for example an HR expert or someone who works in the financial industry, you can find a set of courses that suit you,” Aleksandra Przegalińska, an AI researcher and scientific advisor at CampusAI, told TechCrunch. “CampusAI can prepare specific pathways for specific organizations, allowing organizations to implement a bespoke approach.”
CampusAI’s learning methodology is based on Przegalinska’s research on human-AI collaboration to improve performance and solve complex problems. This approach focuses on using inspiring strategies to develop AI professionals that support personal development.
As such, CampusAI students have access to the company’s Prompt Book, which not only provides a repository of prompts but also teaches students how to write better prompts. Within the virtual campus environment, students can also visit the “AI Gym.” It is a platform where students engage in targeted exercises and assignments created by AI agents that provide continuous assessment.
“Rather than just delegating tasks to AI, we want to create an environment where you can interact with AI in multiple different ways,” Przegalińska says. “You can work alongside it, and you can be a teammate, a sparring partner, a critic, or a coach. We think of this technology not as something that takes over your work, but as something that enhances your work.”
CampusAI claims its courses have generated measurable ROI, increasing employee efficiency by 40% and increasing job satisfaction by 60%. And this company, which was only two years old, seemed to have a lot of momentum.
“We had a huge success in Poland in the first two weeks,” Gorski said, noting that the company, which launched in 2023, “gained more than 600 clients who decided to purchase lifetime memberships, and from that moment the number of users grew to 35,000.”
CampusAI also boasts 60 enterprise customers including ING, T-Mobile, Lenovo, and Ikea, and is expected to generate over $2 million in ARR in 2025. The company is currently raising $20 million in Series A to expand into 40 markets by 2030. CampusAI, which currently offers programs in Polish, English and Spanish, has also recently expanded into the UK and US and is looking to expand into B2B before focusing on building sales there. D2C.
Users who have completed the course and want to learn more can be invited to Community+AI, a digital hub for members to connect, share knowledge, and collaborate on projects. For example, hAI Magazine, an online magazine where users can share sector-specific insights.
Gorski said that beyond the learning environment, CampusAI’s digital twin technology is a big value proposition. In addition to operating your own virtual campus, CampusAI wants to build and license digital twins of real-world college campuses, corporate showrooms, government agencies, or corporate headquarters exclusively for your organization. Digital twin products start at $100,000 per year.
CampusAI recently secured €18 million in funding from the European Commission to work with 11 universities in 10 countries, including Greece, Spain, the UK, France, Luxembourg and Germany, to build digital twins and customized learning environments for students.
Gorski sees these university partnerships as the starting point for a local innovation hub. This approach is based on seven years of work at the Cambridge Innovation Center, where he created more than ten programs to develop Warsaw’s startup community. These virtual environments are designed as catalysts for building local communities and virtual districts, ultimately creating social platforms tailored for entrepreneurs.
He emphasized the importance of fostering strong local ecosystems to counter the dominance of big technology.
“We believe that people should focus on building strong local ecosystems, because if they don’t, there will probably be fewer and fewer startups over the next five years, especially given the recent situation with OpenAI offering more solutions within one ecosystem,” he said.
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