The Top 22 Skill Assessment Startups To Watch Out For In 2021

February 9, 2021

This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Skill Assessment startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Skill Assessment industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top Skill Assessment Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

SkillSet

SkillSet

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Skillset is an online platform for assessing the suitability of candidates with disabilities to work.

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Campusbees

Campusbees

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Campusbees is an early talent management platform offering a comprehensive eco system for college students including – skill evaluation, skill development, campus events, placements, resources and market place. We aim to digitize 300million student profiles by December 2022.

The platform offers latest student management technology to universities and colleges.. .

IndyWise

IndyWise

Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin

IndyWise is a next-gen mentoring driven online platform for reskilling and upskilling. IndyWise offers 1:1 mentoring sessions from quality mentors, mentoring subscription packages, and Mentored Internships to students and job seekers with global startups.

We enable startups to source Mentored Interns.. .

MuchSkills

MuchSkills

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MuchSkills is a skills and strengths visualization tool that helps individuals and teams look into their skills in a new way to improve productivity, engagement and job satisfaction by matching the right person for the right project. At the core of MuchSkills is the belief that every individual strives to work with what they love doing.

MuchSkills allows people to showcase exactly that to the world.. .

Safeguard Scholar

Safeguard Scholar

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Reimagining cybersecurity training software.

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Knowledge Pillars

Knowledge Pillars

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Knowledge Pillars (KP) is a vendor-neutral IT Testing and Certification Provider and it’s the result of 80+ combined years of experience in the Certification and Learning industries on a global scale. Focusing on coding and web-development, KP has developed a new browser-based and live-in-the-app assessment technology that significantly contributes to add a new level of reliability, by testing candidates’ skills on their concrete ability to write code and/or using web tools.

Moving away from the outdated multiple-choice questions format, KP delivers a unique and innovative way to assess software developers skills, by challenging them on their creativity and their hands-on expertise. Employers will also largely benefit when looking to hire professionals for a job-role, relying on candidates possessing these credentials as an assurance they actually own the right knowledge for the role..

Ludus Technologies LTD

Ludus Technologies LTD

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AI For Educational Organizations

Vectorly

Vectorly

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Vectorly drives company growth by providing employees with personalized career paths based on continuous skill feedback and working activity. With Vectorly, IT team leaders create career matrices, review skill levels, set action plans for every team member, and integrate it with 3rd party working tools like Jira, Trello.

Team leaders currently spend 6 months to bootstrap this process with many no-integrated tools like Excel, online forms, Google docs, Notion, etc. With Vectorly, they get results in 2 weeks instead of 6 months in the integrated all-in-one workspace with 40+ IT role skill matrix templates, learning recommendations for skills, team reviews, growth plans, and 3rd party working tools integration..

Sigma Polaris

Sigma Polaris

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Recruitment is broken. Manual processes are time-consuming, inaccurate, and prone to bias.

Sigma Polaris provides data-driven candidate-assessment and shortlisting technology to help HR professionals easily and quickly make well-informed decisions without bias. Our technology saves up to 90% of pre-screening time, finds 4-5 times more qualified candidates than manual methods, and prevents an average of 29 cases of biased valuations per hire..

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Game Academy

Game Academy

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Players of video games are super-talented. The global labour market needs those skills.

Game Academy bridges the two. The venture is an alumni of the LocalGlobeVC/Atomico/London School of Economics-supported ZincVC venture builder programme; a member of the U.K.

Department for Education/NESTA CareerTech Challenge and UfI VocSeed Tech 2020 portfolio.. .

Edqate

Edqate

Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin

Edqate provides you, expert, advice on choosing the best learning platforms for your child. Expert Counsellors at Edqate will lead you to best online coaching for Class 1-12, IIT, JEE, NEET & UPSC.

Edqate + give you an opportunity to learn the world’s most important languages with hundreds of new techniques Edqate+ will give you a variety of workshops spread across various interests of children and from a variety of workshops that includes everything from Robotics to Abacus to Fashion and so much more!. .

HunarPro

HunarPro

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EdTech, Skilling, e-Commerce

Test Invite

Test Invite

Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin

Question bank, video monitoring, real-time proctoring, secure lock-down browser, random question selection, shuffling, time limitations, multiple-step automated assessments are among the features that make Test Invite unique solution. Test Invite provides a secure examination platform.

Every major action of the users can be watched in real-time. If users have a web camera, the proctor can even watch users when they are in examination.

Test Invite offers a very advanced exam editor so that you can design professional exams with multiple sections or pages. The exam, sections or pages can have time limitations.

There are a variety of question types. In addition to multiple-choice questions, open-ended questions can be created so that the users can respond by writing or recording audio/video.

Test Invite provides a question bank. Organizations can import and categorize questions so that they build exams just by selecting questions – within a few minutes..

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Innvocon Learning Solutions Private Limited

Innvocon Learning Solutions Private Limited

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Innvoocn is a platform for companies to hire pre-trained talent with maximum efficiency and a workplace for students to upskill & get hired

Flow of Work Co

Flow of Work Co

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Flow of Work Co is a talent opportunity and insights platform helping organisations grow and retain critical talent and reduce cost.

Acorn.work

Acorn.work

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The leading platform for building successful remote teams, Acorn.work matches firms with experienced professionals from all across the country who are interested in working remotely. Unlike most other sites out there, we vet both sides of marketplace: we vet candidates for likelihood of thriving in a remote environment; and we vet employers ability to set up remote employees for success.

By removing geographic constraints and providing and a simplified way of honing in on the right candidates, we make it quick and easy for firms to attract the best talent. Our goal is to open up opportunities for millions of people all across the country and eliminate the trade-off between personal success and career advancement..

Zoora

Zoora

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Zoora is a digital edutech platform providing digital education in finance, business development, smart agriculture, climate change. They provide rural women farmers to manage their farm records, savings, and more with the use of the Digital Data Management System available on Zoora.

Zoora improves the productivity of women and their financial status via increased financial knowledge, fostering economic sustainability in rural communities and they provide a host of skills to women and assist users in storing their valuable data.. .

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EMPOWER International Students

EMPOWER International Students

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EMPOWER provides career development opportunities for international students to help them jumpstart their careers in Canada.

Rate My Excel

Rate My Excel

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Web App

MinuteMen

MinuteMen

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We Create Solutions for the Super-Problems of the New Generation Educators. At MinuteMen, we work with Educators and EdTech service providers and leverage our expertise in state-of-the-art technologies to improve their work-flows and operations.

Our flagship product AssessCore, helps educators automate every step of their assessment cycle. It is designed to save time, effort, and cost involved in low-value adding operations.

With AssessCore, educators can create or convert their Tests, Practice Sheets, Assessments, Interactive Notes and Work Books into web or mobile compatible digital formats – 10x Faster and 5x Cheaper with Zero Human Intervention. AssessCore is powered by our own rapid data automation intelligence system – MetaRead AI.

MetaRead AI is our State-of-the-art technology to accurately process, analyze, and extract data from Books and other materials into Web compatible formats with zero manual intervention. Our product portfolios include AssessCore, ClassZero, MetaRead AI, and CITE AI.

We are a growing startup with an inventive and creative culture. Our huge growth potential and recent massive advancements have been validated by some of the biggest players in the Industry..

Skuap

Skuap

Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin

Skuap is an online platform that gives access to accomplish leadership skills and manage teams with confidence.

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Yuduyu, Inc.

Yuduyu, Inc.

Crunchbase | Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin

The Next-Gen Resume & Recruitment Platform