TaskHuman lands $20M to expand its virtual coaching platform – TechCrunch
Summary
The latest infusion brings the companys total raised to $35 million, which CEO Ravi Swaminathan said is being put toward product development, marketing and sales efforts.Swaminathan and Daniel Mazzella co-founded TaskHuman in 2017, with the goal of connecting users with specialists on topics related to their personal and professional lives. Swaminathan was previously a program and logistics manager at Dell and VP of software solutions at SanDisk, while Mazzella was a system admin at Stamps.com. Since then, weve continued to expand and support the entire needs of an individual for personal and professional growth, like financial wellbeing, sales and leadership coaching, pet training, travel planning, and more.TaskHuman users connect with experts over live video chats. According to another survey, 75% of managers were dissatisfied with their companys learning and development function in 2019.At the board and C-suite level, many companies view insufficient attention to employee well-being as a threat to productivity and, conversely, a strong commitment to each workers physical, mental, and spiritual prosperity as a competitive advantage for recruiting and retaining talent in a time of labor shortages and the Great Resignation, Swaminathan said. We will be continually adding to the set of human experience and expertise that are available on the platform and expanding support for providers in even more languages and countries around the world.