SkyHive

What SkyHive does

SkyHive is an AI-driven workforce analytics and skills intelligence platform founded in 2017 and headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with US incorporation. The company built and operates what it describes as the world's largest skills knowledge graph, ingesting 28TB of global labor market data daily and performing 150 trillion computations against 1 billion profiles and 5 billion job roles across 190+ countries. Its product suite, now commercialized as 'SkyHive by Cornerstone' following acquisition by Cornerstone OnDemand, includes a Skills Transformation module (skills inventory, gap analysis, and action planning), a Skill Passport module (skills-centric labor economy connecting workers, educators, employers, and governments), and a Workforce Intelligence module (talent insights and mobility). The platform targets three primary customer segments: large enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions, addressing pain points around workforce reskilling, skills gaps, and labor market intelligence.

SkyHive operates a B2B enterprise SaaS subscription revenue model with quote-based enterprise pricing and a direct enterprise field sales motion, supplemented by strategic platform partnerships. The technology is distributed both as a standalone offering and embedded as the knowledge graph engine inside Cornerstone OnDemand's broader HR and talent platform, with flagship OEM-style integrations into Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft 365, and Salesforce Agentforce announced in May 2025. The go-to-market combines direct enterprise sales with API-first and OEM-style channel distribution through Cornerstone's global sales organization and partnership ecosystem.

SkyHive was originally an independent venture-backed company, raising approximately $48 million in disclosed funding (including a $40 million Series B in October 2021 led by Eldridge Industries and an $8 million Series A in November 2020) plus a strategic Deutsche Bank equity investment in April 2022 with a board seat. It was subsequently acquired by Cornerstone OnDemand and now operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary, with its technology integrated into Cornerstone Transform. The platform's go-to-market and growth trajectory are now driven primarily through Cornerstone's enterprise distribution infrastructure and flagship partnerships with Microsoft and Salesforce.

Name

SkyHive

Legal name

SkyHive Inc.

Website

https://skyhive.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

SkyHive is an AI-driven workforce analytics platform that operates the world's largest skills knowledge graph, processing 28TB of daily labor market data across 190+ countries to deliver skills intelligence, workforce planning, and reskilling solutions for enterprises, governments, and educational institutions, now operating as a Cornerstone OnDemand subsidiary.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workforce Analytics and Skills Intelligence Software

NAICS

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise AI Data & Knowledge Platforms (Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs) (HDAEANAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

End-to-End Enterprise AI Platforms (MLOps & Model Lifecycle Management) (HDAEANAA)

Keywords

• Workforce analytics software
• Skills intelligence platform
• Labor market data
• Talent management software
• Reskilling and upskilling

Headquarters

HQ city

Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Enterprise SaaS Platform Subscription: AI-powered workforce analytics and skills intelligence platform delivered as a subscription service to enterprises, governments, and educational institutions. The platform provides real-time labor market data and workforce planning insights.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

SkyHive sells an AI-driven workforce analytics and skills intelligence platform built on a proprietary knowledge graph that ingests 28TB of global labor market data daily and performs 150 trillion computations against 1 billion profiles and 5 billion job roles across 190+ countries. Its core offerings—Cornerstone Transform, Skills Transformation, Skill Passport, and Workforce Intelligence—enable enterprises, governments, and educational institutions to inventory workforce skills, identify gaps, and plan reskilling initiatives. The technology is now distributed as part of Cornerstone OnDemand's enterprise talent platform with integrations into Microsoft and Salesforce ecosystems.

Product overview

SkyHive operates as an AI-driven workforce analytics platform now integrated into Cornerstone OnDemand's portfolio. The core offering consists of SkyHive's knowledge graph providing real-time global labor market data, which powers Cornerstone Transform—a skills-based HR and talent intelligence platform. This unified platform comprises three main modules: Skills Transformation (for identifying and closing skill gaps), Skill Passport (for connecting workers, educators, employers, and governments in a skills-centric economy), and Workforce Intelligence (for uncovering talent insights and accelerating mobility). The technology processes 28TB of labor market data daily across 190+ countries, enabling AI-powered workforce planning for businesses, governments, and educators.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cornerstone Transform: Skills-based HR and talent intelligence platform powered by SkyHive's knowledge graph for workforce agility
• Cornerstone Workforce Intelligence
• Skill Passport

Products and services

• Cornerstone Transform Skills-based HR and talent intelligence platform powered by SkyHive's knowledge graph, providing a unified offering that combines skills inventory, skills transformation, skill passport, and workforce intelligence for enterprises, governments, and educators.
• Skills Transformation Module enabling organizations to identify their workforce skills inventory, define skills aligned to strategy, identify gaps, and plan reskilling and upskilling actions to close those gaps.
• Skill Passport Platform module that unites workers, educators, employers, and governments into a skills-centric labor economy, enabling skills identification and job matching at individual and organizational levels.
• Workforce Intelligence Workforce intelligence module that harnesses people data and SkyHive's real-time labor market data to uncover critical talent insights and bridge skill gaps, accelerating workforce mobility and organizational transformation.
• Massar Al Ghurair Platform Partnership-enabled platform developed with the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation and SkyHive by Cornerstone that prepares up to 45,000 Emirati and Arab youth for the workforce by identifying their skills and connecting them with job opportunities.

Quantifiable outcome

• Prepares up to 45,000 Emirati and Arab youth for the workforce through Massar Al Ghurair platform

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability5 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• MicrosoftflagshipTechnology or Integration · 28 May 2025Strategic partnership announced at Cornerstone Spark Las Vegas to integrate Cornerstone's AI-powered workforce agility solutions (powered by SkyHive's knowledge graph) into Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft 365 platforms.
• SalesforceflagshipTechnology or Integration · 28 May 2025Strategic partnership announced at Cornerstone Spark Las Vegas to integrate Cornerstone's AI-powered workforce agility solutions (powered by SkyHive's knowledge graph) into Salesforce's Agentforce platform.
• Abdulla Al Ghurair FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership to produce research on UAE job market skills and develop the Massar Al Ghurair platform. The platform aims to prepare up to 45,000 Emirati and Arab youth for the workforce by identifying their skills and connecting them with job opportunities.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Visier: Visier is a workforce analytics and people analytics platform serving enterprise HR teams with predictive insights — closely comparable to SkyHive's Workforce Intelligence module and skills gap analytics.
• Degreed: Degreed is a learning and skills development platform that maps skills across an organization's workforce — comparable to SkyHive's skills inventory and upskilling/reskilling workflows.
• Beamery: Beamery provides a talent platform with skills-based candidate matching, internal mobility, and workforce planning — overlapping directly with SkyHive's Skill Passport and skills transformation modules.
• Eightfold AI: Eightfold AI operates a talent intelligence platform built around a skills graph for workforce planning, talent acquisition, and reskilling — directly comparable to SkyHive's skills transformation and workforce intelligence capabilities.
• Lightcast (formerly EMSI/Burning Glass): Lightcast provides real-time labor market data, job postings analytics, and skills taxonomy — the most direct competitor to SkyHive's 'real-time global labor market data' knowledge graph on the data supply side.

Emerging players

• Filtered: Filtered provides skills-based assessment and candidate-job matching for technical roles — an emerging player in the same skills intelligence category as SkyHive, focused on a narrower technical segment.
• Pymetrics: Pymetrics applies AI to talent assessment and matching, including skills-based career navigation — overlapping with SkyHive's skills inference and workforce mobility use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Workday: Workday's HCM suite now includes Workday Skills Cloud and Illuminate, applying AI to skills inference and workforce planning — overlapping with SkyHive's enterprise skills and labor-market intelligence offering at much larger scale.
• LinkedIn Talent Insights: LinkedIn Talent Insights delivers labor market analytics and workforce benchmarking from LinkedIn's professional network — directly comparable to SkyHive's labor market intelligence and skills demand insights for enterprise buyers.
• iCIMS: iCIMS offers a talent acquisition platform with skills matching and candidate intelligence — adjacent to SkyHive's Skill Passport and skills-based candidate-job matching capability.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SkyHiveAI
• Facebookfacebook.com/SkyHiveAI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/skyhive
• Instagraminstagram.com/cornerstoneondemand

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors8 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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

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