the Y Combinator Summer 2016 class<\/a>\u00a0and previously raised $120,000.<\/p>\nWorkramp co-founder Ted Blosser, who spent almost five years at Box, says his company wants to transform traditional learning management systems (LMSs) in the enterprise, not unlike how Box changed content management.<\/p>\n
\u201cTraining and development has been around forever, but LMSs are boring, stodgy, super expensive and no one likes to use them,\u201d Blosser said. Workramp\u2019s goal has been to build something that\u2019s much more engaging for users and easier for managers to access valuable data on the back end.<\/p>\n
The idea for starters is to streamline the onboarding process for new employees, giving them a clear digital path for\u00a0getting started with the company. Creating a process to bring new employees into the fold is a huge challenge for companies of all sizes, but especially for fast-growing startups.<\/p>\n
Workramp provides a platform for organizing all of the tasks new employees need to complete to get comfortable working with the company and doing their specific jobs. It can include not only nuts and bolts training\u00a0on the systems in place, but also building a concrete set of goals to get the employee up to speed in an organized fashion.<\/p>\n
For instance, a new salesperson may have to learn to use Salesforce.com, write a sample contact email, create a video of a sales\u00a0presentation\u00a0and set up 30-, 60- and 90-day goals by the end of the first week with the company. Workramp can move the new employees through this process and give them a systematic way of getting going, an approach that seems obvious enough, but is often lacking, especially in newer organizations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are transforming a disjointed process into a formalized and consistent process, which gives management visibility into how new [employees are] doing,\u201d Blosser explained.<\/p>\n
Managers get that visibility through a dashboard, which provides a comprehensive view of each\u00a0employee\u2019s progress\u00a0on completing their onboarding\u00a0tasks. While Blosser acknowledges that many SaaS\u00a0companies are providing usage data to managers, he wants Workramp to be the training center across all of them.\u00a0\u201cEvery team has systems of record and systems of engagement. We want to give horizontal training data across [all of that],\u201d Blosser said.<\/p>\n
Photo: Workramp<\/p>\n
Over time, the company hopes to be part of the on-going development and goal tracking of employees, giving managers insight into the progress of employees throughout the year, not just when they are starting or when it\u2019s time for an employee performance review.<\/p>\n
For now, the $1.8 million allows Workramp,\u00a0which launched in 2015 and currently has 7 employees, to bring in more sales and engineering talent as it ramps up and looks to grow beyond the 50 customers it currently has.<\/p>\n
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