Lille-based eLamp raises €2 million to expand its employee skills management platform

French startup eLamp has announced raising €2 million to expand its technology for skills management platform. Self-financed from the outset by its 30 customers (Bouygues Construction, Eurotunnel, SPIE, etc.), the company raised this first round of financing from MySeedCap, BPI France, BNP, CIC, Société Générale and a group of Euratechnologies Business Angels.  Created in 2015 by 3 mining engineers, Olivier Rohou, Florian Bojda and Jean-Baptiste Noachovitch, eLamp aims to become the platform of reference when companies wish to map data on the knowledge of their teams and employees. In simple terms, it captures the competencies of teams, wherever they are, and makes them usable in business processes. Its technology, which makes uses of AI and machine learning, can match different skill portfolios (employees, projects, professions, training, etc), and adapt skills management rules to meet structural and regulatory challenges of companies, among others. Easy to implement, its open and documented APIs are based on market standard technologies. Currently, the platform is available in 10 languages and 13 different countries (including China and Russia,) in both web and mobile versions, and has more than 30 customers worldwide.

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