Educators across the country are turning to mobile-first learning platforms to help their students stay on top of their lessons and achieve success. Opus, a leading platform for businesses with a deskless workforce, recently raised $6.8 million in its Series A round led by Stage 2 Capital. With the funds, the company plans to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams and further develop its SaaS platform.
Co-founded by Rachael Nemeth, Jeffrey Silver, and Vince Li, Opus is designed to help businesses with large distributed workforces minimize labour costs and increase sales by offering accessible training technology that can reach 99% of employees. The platform automates the entire employee training lifecycle in a single system, and delivers all forms of training to employees’ phones through a mobile application in more than 100 languages.
Mandy Cole, Partner of Stage 2 Capital, commented: “The businesses that employ these people must deliver effective training that is accessible and leads to better workplaces. We invested in Opus because the company is trailblazing a training solution for any business with a frontline workforce – something that is lacking in the current market. And we’re excited to join their Board of Directors to help the team scale and make an impact in today’s working world.”
Opus is leveraging AI through its translation technology and content builder. The content builder helps customers take any content, such as a procedure change, and convert it into an interactive lesson 20 times faster than legacy solutions. As a result, their customers are seeing a decrease in manager admin time by 40% while lowering frontline labour costs by 5%-15%. Its translation technology helps reduce operating costs by automatically translating every course, message and interaction on the platform into over 100 global languages. By leveraging neural networks for automated translations and a proprietary machine learning model that understands the quality of the system’s translations, the firm achieves 95-99% accuracy.
For educators, Opus is an invaluable resource for their students’ success. With its mobile-first platform, employees can access training materials quickly and easily, no matter where they are. This allows educators to ensure their students are staying on top of their lessons and can properly apply new knowledge. Opus is helping to bridge the gap between traditional learning methods and the digital age, making education more accessible to all.
