SkillSoft

What SkillSoft does

Skillsoft Corporation (NYSE: SKIL) is a publicly listed enterprise learning technology company headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire, providing an AI-native skills management platform to global enterprises, SMEs, governments, and educational institutions. The company's core product is the Skillsoft Percipio Platform, which unifies skills intelligence, learning content, AI-driven practice (CAISY Conversation AI Simulator), AI-powered authoring (LX Design Studio), and AI Insights Dashboards into a single SaaS system delivered through HR/HCM/LMS integrations. Skillsoft reports that 60% of the Fortune 1000 manage their skills on the platform, with named enterprise customers including CACI, Lenovo, CGI, Delta, and Johnson & Johnson under multi-year master services agreements.

The business is organized around four primary revenue streams: recurring SaaS subscriptions to Skillsoft Percipio, professional services and Customer Success engagements, Codecademy consumer and enterprise subscriptions (acquired April 2022 for approximately $525M, serving 40 million learners), and premium content access including certifications, labs, and Aspire Journeys. Pricing is quote-based with multi-year enterprise contracts negotiated through direct enterprise field sales, supplemented by channel and integration partners, an AWS Marketplace listing, and event-driven demand generation (Leadercamps, webinars, Skills Readiness Assessments). During 2025-2026 Skillsoft is executing a strategic transformation: divesting the Global Knowledge instructor-led training business to Enduring Ventures (announced May 2026 for $10M initial plus $10M deferred), launching the next-generation AI-native Percipio platform (September 2025 / GA February 2026), forming partnerships with Salesforce (June 2025) and edX (December 2025), refreshing its brand (February 2026), and refreshing senior leadership including CFO Ron Kisling (May 2026, ex-Fastly and Fitbit) and Chief Technology and Product Officer Bernard Barbour (December 2025). The company received an NYSE non-compliance notice in March 2026 after market capitalization fell below $50 million (reported at $37.22M), and faces a fiduciary duty investigation announced by Greenwich Legal Associates, introducing material governance and capital-structure risk alongside the ongoing product pivot.

Name

SkillSoft

Legal name

Skillsoft Corporation

Website

http://www.skillsoft.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Skillsoft Corporation is a publicly listed enterprise learning technology company that provides an AI-native skills management platform — Skillsoft Percipio — used by 60% of the Fortune 1000 to identify, build, and deploy workforce skills. It also operates the Codecademy brand for technology skilling and is divesting its instructor-led Global Knowledge business to focus on AI-driven skills intelligence.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Nashua

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Skillsoft Percipio (SaaS subscriptions): Recurring subscription revenue from the AI-native Percipio skills management platform sold primarily to enterprise customers; FY27 guidance of $388M–$406M revenue with new Percipio customer agreements growing 67% quarter-over-quarter in Q1 FY27.
2. Professional Services and Customer Success: Fee-based consulting and instructional-design services, plus dedicated Customer Success engagements, delivered to expand enterprise deployments and tailor programs to client needs.
3. Codecademy consumer/enterprise subscriptions: Subscription-based coding-skills content (acquired with Codecademy in April 2022 for ~$525M), serving both individual learners and Codecademy for Enterprise customers.
4. Certifications, labs and premium content access: Premium catalog and certification-prep offerings accessed through Skillsoft Percipio and Codecademy for Enterprise (5,000+ on-demand courses, practice labs, certification prep, Aspire Journeys).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Core offering

Skillsoft provides an AI-native skills management platform (Skillsoft Percipio) that combines learning content, skills intelligence, AI-driven practice/simulation, and compliance training for global enterprises. Its offerings include the Percipio platform, CAISY AI conversation simulator, LX Design Studio authoring tool, AI Insights Dashboards, Skillsoft Coaching, Codecademy for Enterprise, and a Compliance Suite — sold primarily as multi-year SaaS subscriptions to large organizations.

Product overview

Skillsoft offers a unified, AI-native platform-plus-modules architecture anchored by the Skillsoft Percipio Platform, its enterprise skills management system. Percipio serves as the central hub for the Skills Supply Chain, providing AI-driven skills intelligence, AI content creation via LX Design Studio, and the CAISY Conversation AI Simulator for practice. Surrounding this core platform are integrated modules and offerings: the Codecademy enterprise technology training brand (acquired in 2022 for $525M); Skillsoft Coaching, which combines ICF-accredited human coaches with the AI Coach (CAISY); the Compliance Suite for risk-based ethics, legal, cybersecurity, and workplace safety training; the Skillsoft Leadership Development Program (SLDP) powered by MIT Sloan Management Review; Aspire Journeys and Business Advance for role-based and business skills development; the Frontline Workforce Solution with micro-modules; AI Insights Dashboards for real-time workforce skills intelligence; and Interactive Skill Benchmarks for proficiency assessment. Global Knowledge, the instructor-led training business, is being divested. Together, these products combine AI-native skills intelligence, personalized learning content, immersive AI-driven practice simulations, and human coaching to deliver workforce readiness outcomes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Skillsoft Percipio: The AI-native skills management platform (next-generation released September 2025 / GA February 2026) that identifies, builds, and deploys human and AI skills across the workforce.
• Skillsoft CAISY
• Skillsoft Coaching
• Codecademy for Enterprise (Skillsoft's Codecademy)
• Global Knowledge
• Skillsoft LX Design Studio

Products and services

• Skillsoft Percipio Platform AI-native skills management platform that connects skills, learning, and work in one system, helping organizations identify, build, and deploy human and AI skills that drive workforce readiness. Used by 60% of the Fortune 1000.
• Skillsoft CAISY AI conversation simulator that presents the learner with a business scenario and plays the role of the other person in the conversation, providing a safe space to practice skills, apply judgment, and receive personalized feedback.
• Skillsoft Coaching Professional coaching platform combining ICF-accredited human coaches (1:1, specialized, group), an AI Coach, and targeted learning content to develop leadership capabilities at enterprise scale across 30+ countries and 25+ languages.
• Codecademy for Enterprise Hands-on and comprehensive technology skilling solution offering interactive courses, on-demand video, live instructor-led training, practice labs and sandboxes, certification prep, and Aspire Journeys in coding, cloud, cybersecurity, web development, and AI.
• Skillsoft Compliance Suite Risk-based compliance training suite with AI capabilities covering ethics, legal, cybersecurity, ESG, workplace safety, and code of conduct; includes tailored course materials adaptable to organization-specific policies.
• Skillsoft Leadership Development Program (SLDP) Leadership development program powered by MIT Sloan Management Review with over 30 leadership competencies organized into three learning tracks: Leading Yourself, Your Team, and Leading the Business. Enhanced by Skillsoft CAISY for practice.
• Skillsoft Aspire Journeys Role-based and skill-based learning paths that empower learners to develop from their current level to their target role with on-the-job expert insights and Aspire Journey completion certificates and badges.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability10 records

Feature8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Coursera: Public enterprise-and-consumer online learning platform with overlapping content, certifications, and enterprise sales motion into the same Fortune 1000 buyer as Skillsoft Percipio and Codecademy for Enterprise.
• LinkedIn Learning: Microsoft-owned enterprise learning platform bundled with LinkedIn talent data; directly competes with Skillsoft's content + skills intelligence stack for L&D budget.
• Pluralsight: Enterprise technology-skills platform (Vista Equity portfolio company) that overlaps directly with Skillsoft's technology-skills portfolio and Codecademy for Enterprise offerings.
• Degreed: Enterprise learning experience platform (LXP) focused on skills visibility and content aggregation — directly comparable to Percipio's skills-intelligence and learning-layer positioning.
• Docebo: Public AI-native learning platform with enterprise LMS/LXP capabilities that competes head-to-head with Percipio for mid-market and enterprise L&D contracts.
• Cornerstone OnDemand: Enterprise talent and learning management suite (Clearlake Capital) covering LMS, content, and skills — overlapping with Skillsoft's Compliance, Leadership, and Skills Supply Chain offerings.
• Udemy: Public enterprise-and-consumer learning marketplace with a technology-skills catalog that competes with Skillsoft's content breadth and Codecademy for Enterprise positioning.

Emerging players

• Sana Labs: AI-native enterprise learning and knowledge platform; competes with Skillsoft's CAISY and LX Design Studio in the AI-driven authoring and personalized-learning category.
• 360Learning: Collaborative learning platform with AI authoring tools; an emerging mid-market alternative that overlaps with Skillsoft's LX Design Studio and collaborative course-creation use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Workday Learning: Learning module embedded inside Workday HCM; competes with Skillsoft for enterprise L&D wallet share via deep HR-system integration, particularly with large Workday customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SkillSoft
• Facebookfacebook.com/skillsoft
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/skillsoft

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors4 records

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M&A6 records

Investments1 record

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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