Yoodli moves beyond practice sessions into AI-driven corporate training
Seattle-based Yoodli is expanding beyond AI practice sessions for speeches, sales pitches, and interviews into a broader workplace training platform. The startup's new tools can create courses, answer employee questions, coach workers during calls and meetings, and help managers track skill improvement. Yoodli has raised nearly $60 million and counts Google, Snowflake, and Databricks among its customers.
Yoodli started five years ago as an AI2 Incubator spinout focused on public-speaking practice. It later moved into company sales, with Google, Snowflake and Databricks using it to train sales teams. El Salvador’s government uses it for doctor-patient communication, while the University of Washington uses it for interview preparation. The Seattle company has raised almost $60 million from WestBridge Capital, Neotribe, Madrona and AI House.
Founders Varun Puri and Esha Joshi previously worked at Google’s X and Apple. New tools can build courses, explain software and AI, answer employee questions, assist during calls and meetings, and show managers skill progress. Yoodli now competes in corporate training with Workday and LinkedIn.
Yoodli’s expansion could make workplace learning more continuous and personalized, affecting sales teams, doctors, students and other employees who use AI coaching. Managers may gain clearer signals about skill growth, while workers could receive faster feedback during calls and meetings. At the same time, reliance on AI assessments may raise questions about privacy, fairness and whether measured improvement reflects real competence. Employers and training providers may need to weigh these benefits against possible over-monitoring.