What SkillFull does

SkillFull B.V. is a privately held, bootstrapped Rotterdam-based learning and development company that builds AI-powered and game-based training products for workplace soft skills. The company's flagship product, TALKS, is an AI conversation training platform where employees practice realistic workplace dialogues with intelligent avatars that exhibit recognizable personalities and provide evidence-based behavioral feedback tied to competency frameworks. SkillFull augments TALKS with a portfolio of serious games — Leadership Challenge (HR Innovation Award 2021), Leadership Game (developed under the EU Horizon 2020 'Develop Your Career' project), Communication Game, Cooperation Game, and De Beproeving — plus Virtual Reality training delivered through partner WARP VR. The TALKS Wizard enables organizations to author custom AI avatar scenarios in roughly 10 minutes.

The company operates a sales-led go-to-market model with demo-driven conversion, a freemium trial on TALKS, and quote-based enterprise pricing. Revenue streams combine subscription/recurring enterprise training, custom consulting and VR onboarding development, and individual learning products. Distribution is primarily direct enterprise sales supplemented by channel partners — notably Berenschot (BeCome coaching programme), Haufe Akademie (German Future Skills), and Human Insight (organizational growth diagnostics) — and by learning partners across European universities (Erasmus, Bristol, UWE, Hamburg, Saarland, RSM). The team is small (8 employees, founder CEO Joost Modderman) and operates across the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom with multilingual product support in English, Dutch, and German. No external funding rounds or parent company ownership have been disclosed.

Name

SkillFull

Legal name

SkillFull B.V.

Website

https://skill-full.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SkillFull builds AI-powered conversation avatars (TALKS) and serious games that help enterprise L&D teams, executives, and individual professionals train workplace soft skills through realistic practice and behavioral feedback.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Learning and Development Software

NAICS

Professional and Management Development Training (61143), Professional and Management Development Training (611430), Business Schools and Computer and Management Training (6114)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Interactive Practice & Skill-Building (Drills, Games, Mastery Practice) (EDAFACAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI & Automation in Customer Service (Chatbots, Agent Assist) (EDABACAO), AI-Powered Language Tutors, Chatbots & Speaking Practice Tools (EDAFAOAC), Training Delivery Services (Onsite/Virtual Instruction, Workshops, Coaching) (BPAEANAN), Conversational NLP & Dialogue Management (chatbots, agents) (HDAAADAF)

Keywords

• Soft skills training
• AI conversation practice
• Serious games learning
• Leadership development
• Behavioral analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Rotterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Enterprise Training Programs: Ready-made training programs and custom scenario creation sold to organizations for employee development. Includes AI avatar conversations, leadership games, communication games, and cooperation games deployed via subscription or contract.
2. Individual Learning Solutions: Game-based learning products and coaching services offered to individual professionals for personal development and career advancement.
3. Custom Solutions & Consulting: Tailored serious game development, VR onboarding experiences, and consulting services for organizations with specific learning needs. From research & development to production & implementation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

SkillFull develops and sells the TALKS platform, an AI-powered conversation training system where employees practice realistic workplace dialogues with intelligent avatars and receive evidence-based behavioral feedback, complemented by a portfolio of serious games (Leadership Challenge, Leadership Game, Communication Game, Cooperation Game) and Virtual Reality training for soft skills and leadership development. Products are sold to enterprise L&D departments and individual professionals on subscription, consulting, and custom-development terms.

Product overview

SkillFull offers a suite of game-based and AI-powered learning solutions for workplace soft skills development. The core product portfolio centers on TALKS, an AI conversation training platform featuring intelligent avatars, complemented by six serious games: Leadership Challenge (award-winning leadership development), Leadership Game (behavioral style measurement), Communication Game, Cooperation Game, Virtual Reality training, and De Beproeving (team intervention). The Wizard tool enables users to create custom training scenarios. All products combine evidence-based psychology with engaging game mechanics to drive behavioral change through practice, feedback, and measurable learning analytics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• TALKS AI-powered conversation training platform where employees practice realistic workplace conversations with intelligent avatars that have recognizable personalities and human-like interaction, receiving targeted evidence-based feedback. Designed for L&D departments and individuals practicing skills such as feedback, assertiveness, leadership, and communication.
• Leadership Challenge Award-winning leadership development game that helps managers become versatile leaders by training style flexibility through immersive scenarios and behavioral feedback. Built on behavioral psychology and the competing values model.
• Leadership Game Serious game that measures and trains behavioral styles and leadership versatility using the competing values model, developed as part of the European Horizon 2020 project. Grasp player style and versatility through realistic work situations based on interviews with international company experts.
• Communication Game Interactive game-based training that helps employees become effective in their communication and adapt their style effectively to different workplace situations.
• Cooperation Game Team development game focused on building trust, enhancing cooperation, and stimulating knowledge sharing within teams through immersive scenarios measuring four distinctive cooperation styles.
• Virtual Reality Training Fully immersive and remote behavioral training experience delivered through virtual reality technology, partnered with WARP VR for hands-on skill development and onboarding experiences.
• De Beproeving Team intervention activity focused on trust and cooperation that combines interactive simulation with group workshops and interactive team events.

Quantifiable outcome

• Gaming can train behavior better, faster, and more reliably than traditional methods
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• Human InsightcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership providing unique tooling to determine organizational growth phase. Combined solution enables companies to grow effectively by identifying which growth phase they are in and offering tailored SkillFull learning solutions.
• Horizon 2020 - Develop Your CareerflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean research project (Horizon 2020) that funded the development of the Leadership Game. Project focuses on contemporary ways of assessing soft skills like leadership through game-based assessments.
• BerenschotcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerTogether with Berenschot, developed the online coaching programme BeCome - a 6 to 8 week program offering interactive games, reflection questions, personal assignments, and one-to-one remote coaching for leadership development.
• Haufe AkademiecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on out-of-the-box Future Skills projects resulting in unique lifelong learning programmes including personality-based formats and serious games.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Zenarate: Zenarate delivers AI simulation training focused on contact center and customer service agents. It is comparable to SkillFull's customer-service-conversation use cases but is a larger, more specialized incumbent in a narrower vertical.
• CoachHub: CoachHub is a European digital coaching platform for leadership and professional development. It targets the same L&D and HR buyer as SkillFull but delivers human coaching at scale rather than AI avatar practice, making it a broader incumbent in the same category.

Direct peers

• Mursion: Mursion provides AI- and human-driven virtual-human simulations for workplace conversations, including leadership, communication, and customer-interaction scenarios. It is the closest direct competitor to SkillFull's TALKS avatar platform in both technology and target L&D buyer.
• VirtualSpeech: VirtualSpeech combines VR and AI for soft-skills practice in public speaking and workplace communication. It is a comparable peer in the intersection of immersive technology and communication/leadership training.
• Yoodli: Yoodli offers an AI communication and presentation coach that gives feedback on speech and conversational behavior. It overlaps with SkillFull's AI-driven behavioral feedback for individual professionals and corporate learners.
• Talespin: Talespin offers immersive VR and AI-driven soft-skills and leadership training for enterprises. It overlaps with SkillFull's Leadership Challenge, VR training, and AI-coaching offerings for L&D departments.
• Second Nature AI: Second Nature provides AI avatar role-play for sales and customer-conversation training. It competes head-on with SkillFull's TALKS in the AI-conversation-practice category, particularly for sales-led use cases.
• Quantified AI: Quantified AI builds AI avatar role-play and communication-coaching simulations for sales and customer-facing teams. The product and target buyer closely mirror SkillFull's TALKS avatar training scenarios.

Emerging players

• Rehearsal: Rehearsal is a UK-based conversation-rehearsal and soft-skills training platform. It is a geographically adjacent emerging player with overlapping AI-driven practice functionality for professional communication.
• PitchMonster: PitchMonster provides AI-driven sales pitch and conversation training. It overlaps with SkillFull's sales-call and communication-scenario practice but is focused specifically on sales enablement rather than broader L&D.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/skillfull-serious-games

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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