A landmark investment from HearstLab will fund Founderz’s expansion alongside Fitch Learning, bringing innovative and personalized AI training solutions to over 125,000 professionals worldwide.
Fitch Learning, the global leader in financial services education, and Founderz, Europe’s premier AI business school, today announced a strategic partnership that will provide learners worldwide with innovative, personalized training that combines Fitch’s deep expertise in financial services education with Founderz’s award-winning, multilingual AI learning platform and global community reach.
The partnership is underpinned by a strategic investment in Founderz by HearstLab, a Hearst investment arm. HearstLab invests globally in women-led companies building high-potential, category-defining businesses. Fitch Learning is part of Fitch Group, which is owned by Hearst.
“HearstLab’s investment in Founderz reflects our long-term commitment to dynamic, women-led technology startups, as well as advancing Fitch Group’s education mission,” said Eve Burton, Executive Vice President, Hearst and Co-Founder & Chairwoman of HearstLab. “This partnership represents an investment model for us to connect companies building great technology with the operators across Hearst looking to scale innovation and maintain their competitive edge in an AI-first world.”
HearstLab’s international portfolio now extends to more than twenty investments outside the United States. “Founderz is a powerful reminder of the importance of international markets. Hubs like Barcelona are producing extraordinary companies with the ambition, talent, and technology to scale globally and connect with leading corporations anywhere in the world,” said Azahara García, Director, HearstLab International.
Both enterprise clients and individual professionals will benefit from critical learning solutions to reduce skill gaps, support compliance and help scale across languages and geographies.
Fitch Learning serves more than 1,200 financial institutions and develops over 125,000 professionals annually, across every financial services sector: banking, global markets and trading, wealth and asset management, private credit and insurance.
“HearstLab’s investment in Founderz signals a step change in how professional skills will be developed in the years ahead. By partnering with Founderz, Fitch Learning is ensuring that financial services organizations can access these next-generation capabilities — empowering their people to learn faster, adapt quicker and stay ahead in an increasingly AI-driven world,” said Andreas Karaiskos, CEO of Fitch Learning.
Founderz is an AI business school and a Microsoft Worldwide Training Partner that specializes in artificial intelligence and business education. With a global community of over 630,000 learners across five continents, it delivers practical and accessible AI learning for professionals and organizations.
“Founderz has built a platform engineered to scale personalized learning, real-world practice, and AI adoption across languages and geographies,” said Anna Cejudo and Pau Garcia-Milà, Co-Founders, Founderz. “Working with Fitch Learning and HearstLab means those capabilities will be applied to content developed by practitioners who know financial services inside out, combining learning paths, simulations, and AI teammates to deliver measurable outcomes that organizations and learners can trust.”
“This partnership is an exciting new step for Fitch Group, designed to future-proof industry learning by delivering a best-in-class solution to our clients. Crucially, by combining Fitch Learning and Founderz, this will be AI-enabled learning built from inside financial services — not generic AI training applied to it from the outside,” said Paul Taylor, President & CEO of Fitch Group.
In this new phase of collaboration, Fitch Learning, HearstLab, and Founderz reinforce their commitment to expanding access to technological education aligned with the needs of the global job market. The goal is to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence skills in the financial sector and contribute to training professionals prepared to lead in an increasingly digital and interconnected economy.
A landmark investment from HearstLab will fund Founderz's expansion alongside Fitch Learning, bringing innovative and personalized AI training solutions to over 125,000 professionals worldwide.
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