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Nobody likes corporate trainings. Nobody.<\/p>\n

In fact, one of life\u2019s puzzles that eludes me most is how a person could enjoy corporate trainings enough to spend their time designing and running them. Perhaps only with disdain for the status quo can a startup create something that people not only don\u2019t hate, but find helpful.<\/p>\n

The idea for Butterfly<\/a>, founded by David Mendlewicz,\u00a0Simon Rakosi and\u00a0Marcus Perezi-Tormos, originated from poor experiences the young managers had when receiving leadership training. The startup is announcing a $2.4 million seed round today from Daphni<\/a>, Tectonic Ventures<\/a>, Precursor Ventures<\/a> and a number of angels with the hopes of making things better.<\/p>\n

Mendlewicz told me that the gold standard for training is a compressed quarterly or yearly training. This tends not to work because it\u2019s not targeted in terms of content or timing. Instead, Butterfly monitors team feedback and uses machine learning to push brief, digestible tips to managers via a chatbot named Alex to help improve outcomes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re focusing on content that managers can take advantage of \u2014 short and conversational,\u201d Mendlewicz added.<\/p>\n

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The startup is moving its focus to Fortune 500 companies. The team has already managed to onboard 20 large companies, including Citibank, Ticketmaster and Coca-Cola,\u00a0with paid contracts reaching 50 percent or more of the addressable workforce at most customers.<\/p>\n

Butterfly collects feedback about the impact it\u2019s having within corporations. By building relationships with academics from the University of Oxford and Columbia University\u00a0researching human behavior in the workplace, Butterfly hopes to unpack key drivers and use them to affect change.<\/p>\n

\u201cYounger workforces thrive on more feedback,\u201d\u00a0Charles Hudson, an investor in Butterfly from\u00a0Precursor Ventures, told me in an interview. \u201cYou need a mechanism for delivering feedback to them in a way that works.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Right now about a third of Butterfly\u2019s content comes from third-parties and two-thirds is content the startup has indexed and reframed. In the future, the platform could make for an interesting content marketplace where managers could opt into the tools they think they could most benefit from.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuying central learning resources is going away and people at the individual or team level are going to have control over those budgets,\u201d\u00a0Hudson added.<\/p>\n

With data of which resources work for which teams, Butterfly can inform decisions around which training content companies should be spending their money on. And ideally managers get accustomed to the format enough that learning starts to feel more like reading a story a friend sent via Messenger and less like a clunky, outdated training exercise.<\/p>\n

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Featured Image: Camelia Dobrin\/Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n

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