Talespin Secures $15 Million to Boost Its XR Tech Platform ‘Runway’

Talespin's Runway platform accelerates knowledge transfer for soft and hard skills and offers advanced skills data to enable purpose-driven career decisions for employees, and better talent decisions for organizations.

FREMONT, CA: Talespin, a spatial computing company focused on workforce knowledge transfer and skill alignment, raised $15 million in Series B round of financing. This venture capital financing round was led by Cornerstone OnDemand, a provider of cloud-based learning, talent management, and talent experience software. HTC also joined the round as a new investor, with participation from existing investors, including Farmers Insurance Exchange.

This new funding brings Talespin's total funding raised to $20 million. The company intends to use the capital to continue powering its talent development platform, Runway, as well as to expand research and development, and to continue growing its VR learning content library.

Cornerstone is partnering with Talespin to develop technology and products to up-level HR and L&D practices. Talespin's VR learning content will be made available to customers through Cornerstone's product offerings. Talespin's Runway platform will also be integrated with Cornerstone's Learning Management System to power XR training deployment and skills matching analytics at scale.

"We share Talespin's vision that the workforce needs innovative solutions to stay competitive, maximize opportunity, and increase employee satisfaction," said Jason Gold, Vice President of Finance, Corporate Development and Investor Relations at Cornerstone. "We've been incredibly impressed with Talespin's technology, leadership team, and vision to transform the workplace through XR. Talespin's technology is a perfect fit in our suite of products, and we look forward to working together to deliver great solutions for our customers."

Founded in 2015, Talespin leverages its proprietary XR technology platform Runway to deliver XR-based learning and training applications, mixed reality field tools to support employee job performance and to advance the collection and alignment of skills data. It empowers companies to systematically transition their workforces toward a new, skills-based economy with spatial computing.

"Farmers work with Talespin continues to deliver innovative technology to help empower our employees to provide a high level of customer service," said Scott Lindquist, the chief financial officer of Farmers Group, Inc, the attorney-in-fact of Farmers Insurance Exchange. "Their immersive VR and AR platforms have helped us reshape the way we look at training Farmers Insurance Claims Adjusters, and we're excited to continue to support the Talespin team through this next phase of growth and development."

"Creating better alignment between skills and opportunities is the key to solving the reskilling challenges organizations across the world are facing," said Kyle Jackson, CEO, and Co-Founder of Talespin. "That's why it's critical companies find a way to provide accelerated, continuous learning and create better skills data. By doing so, we will open up career pathways for individuals that are better aligned to their natural abilities and learned skills, and enable companies to implement a skills-based approach to talent development, assessment, and placement. Our new funding and partnership with Cornerstone will allow us to expand our product offerings to achieve these goals, and to continue building innovative solutions that redefine what work looks like in the future."