Inside CampusAI’s mission to close the AI training gap for everyday workers — check it out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

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As companies propulsion to summation ratio and enactment competitive, they’re encouraging, oregon successful immoderate cases outright requiring, workers to cognize however to usage AI tools. However, the propulsion for AI usage has exposed a grooming gap. 

“There are fewer solutions disposable connected the marketplace that are dedicated to non-technical people,” Aureliusz Gorski, laminitis and CEO of Warsaw-based CampusAI, told TechCrunch. 

CampusAI’s solution? An acquisition level focused connected making learning accessible to mundane radical who privation to bring AI into their mundane workflows — whether that’s to assistance amended sales, HR, legal, oregon conscionable springiness your idiosyncratic branding a boost with AI. The level aims to assistance radical recognize and enactment with AI, alternatively than beryllium intimidated by it. 

The Polish startup spoke to TechCrunch up of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, wherever it’s a Startup Battlefield Top 20 finalist. CampusAI’s main merchandise is simply a broad online learning ecosystem with 2 cardinal components: courses featuring an avatar-based learning exemplary and a virtual field successful the metaverse wherever users tin larn much skills, link with others, enactment successful assemblage projects, and more. Think of it similar Roblox for adults.

CampusAI offers its learning level straight to consumers oregon to businesses that privation to make AI upskilling paths for employees. The startup says it provides entree to dozens of AI models — from ChatGPT and Gemini to Midjourney and Flux — so users tin experimentation and larn successful 1 spot without needing to motion up for abstracted accounts and subscriptions. The squad besides updates courses each time to support up with the accelerated gait of technological change. 

Me+AI users get a dedicated table successful the virtual campus.Image Credits:CampusAI

CampusAI’s flagship people for consumers is called Me+AI, priced astatine $250 per year, and it allows students to personalize their learning experience. The B2B product, called Team+AI, is priced astatine $25,000 per year.  

“We are helping with the implementation of the quality positive AI readiness civilization [within companies], helping companies spell smoothly with this transition,” Gorski said. 

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The archetypal 3 weeks of Team+AI see an AI readiness trial for the organization, a store for managers, and a webinar for the full organization. The past 4 weeks diagnostic personalized improvement paths for employees that person been adapted to conscionable  company goals.  

“You tin travel successful arsenic a nonrecreational of a field, say, an HR expert, oregon idiosyncratic who works successful finance, and past you’ll find a batch of courses for yourself,” Aleksandra Przegalińska, an AI researcher and technological advisor to CampusAI, told TechCrunch. “CampusAI is susceptible of preparing circumstantial pathways for circumstantial organizations truthful they tin bash a tailor-made approach.” 

CampusAI’s learning methodology is based disconnected Przegalińska and Jemielniak’s research connected human-AI collaboration for improved concern results and analyzable problem-solving. The attack centers connected utilizing prompting strategies to make AI experts that enactment individuals successful enhancing their capabilities.

Image Credits:CampusAI

As such, CampusAI students person entree to the company’s punctual book, which not lone offers a repository of prompts, but besides coaches students to larn however to physique amended prompts. Within the virtual field environment, students tin besides sojourn the “AI Gym” — a level wherever students tackle targeted exercises and challenges created by an AI cause that provides ongoing assessment. 

“We privation to physique an situation wherever you don’t delegate tasks to AI, but rather, you enactment with it successful aggregate antithetic modalities,” Przegalińska said. “You tin enactment successful parallel with it, it tin go your teammate, your sparring partner, your critic, oregon your coach. We deliberation of this exertion arsenic thing that is enhancing your work, not thing that is taking implicit your work.” 

CampusAI claims its courses nutrient a measurable ROI, with employees becoming 40% much businesslike and 60% much satisfied with their jobs. And the two-year-old institution appears to person had immoderate superior traction.

“It was immense occurrence successful Poland successful the archetypal 2 weeks,” Gorski said, noting the institution launched successful 2023. “We got implicit 600 clients who decided to bargain our beingness membership, and from that moment, we grew to 35,000 users.” 

CampusAI besides boasts 60 endeavor customers, including ING, T-Mobile, Lenovo, and Ikea, and is connected way for much than $2 cardinal successful ARR successful 2025. The institution is presently raising a $20 cardinal Series A to assistance it expand to 40 markets by 2030. CampusAI, which offers its programme contiguous successful Polish, English, and Spanish, has precocious expanded into the U.K. and the U.S., with a absorption connected gathering B2B income earlier branching into D2C.  

Users who implicit the courses and privation to observe much tin beryllium invited to articulation Community+AI, a integer hub for members to connect, stock knowledge, and collaborate connected projects — similar hAI Magazine, an online mag wherever users tin stock sector-specific insights.  

Beyond its learning environment, Gorski said CampusAI’s integer duplicate exertion has go a large worth proposition. Instead of conscionable moving its ain virtual campus, CampusAI wants to physique and licence integer twins of real-life assemblage campuses, firm showrooms, authorities institutions, oregon institution office for organizations’ exclusive use. The integer twins merchandise starts astatine $100,000 per year.  

CampusAI precocious secured €18 cardinal from the European Commission to collaborate with 11 universities crossed 10 countries — including Greece, Spain, the U.K., France, Luxembourg, and Germany — to make integer twins and customized learning environments for students.  

Gorski views these assemblage partnerships arsenic launchpads for section innovation hubs — an attack informed by his 7 years astatine Cambridge Innovation Center, wherever helium created implicit 10 programs to make Warsaw’s startup community. These virtual environments are designed arsenic catalysts for gathering section communities and virtual districts, yet creating a societal level tailored for entrepreneurs. 

He emphasized that fostering beardown section ecosystems is captious to antagonistic large tech dominance. 

“We judge radical should absorption connected gathering beardown section ecosystems, due to the fact that if not, the adjacent 5 years volition astir apt person little and little startups, particularly aft what we saw precocious with OpenAI providing much solutions wrong 1 ecosystem,” helium said. 

If you privation to larn much astir CampusAI from the institution itself — portion besides checking retired dozens of others, proceeding their pitches, and listening to impermanent speakers connected 4 antithetic stages — articulation america astatine Disrupt, October 27 to 29 successful San Francisco. Learn much here.  

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