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Find and onboard the best-skilled Volunteers (SkilledUp Lifers) for your technology startup. Volunteer remotely to gain EXPERIENCE and demonstrable SKILLS to improve your career prospects including career transition.

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SkilledUp Life is a two sided market place where 55,000+ skilled volunteers meet hundreds of early stage tech companies looking for volunteer talent to build their tech companies.

Tech Companies:

You can now focus on going from £0 to £10k Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) and beyond with the help of SkilledUp Life Volunteers (SkilledUp Lifers).

Rule: You cannot financially compensate Volunteers. No stipends. Not even gift vouchers. All remote. No promises of paid work post volunteering shall be made either.

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SkilledUp Lifers (Volunteers):

You can help build tech startups and gain invaluable Experience and demonstrable Skills to land your dream job, go freelance, career transition or just give back.

Rule: All Opportunities listed are voluntary. You cannot earn financially or gain any taxable reward in kind. There are no paid jobs provided via SkilledUp Life after your volunteer period ends.

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SkilledUp Lifers (143 Countries)

Updated 24 February 2025

Tech Companies Helped

Updated 24 February 2025

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Our Tech Companies

From HealthTech to AI and NFTs. From the UK, USA and Europe to Africa, Asia and South America. Open to early-stage tech companies from anywhere in the world.

Want to build your tech startup team but got no capital to pay for salaries? Running out of funds raised from the Pre-Seed round and need more hands to hit metrics needed for the Seed round? Whatever the reason, we are here to help you with skilled volunteers.

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Rule: Replacing paid talent with volunteers will not be tolerated. SkilledUp Lifers should always be an additional resource and not a replacement. We do not tolerate exploitation of any kind.

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**Case study 1: Inexperienced**

Wishma joined us as the first Customer Support Volunteer when she was in second year of undergraduate studies. She built the support team and wrote the knowledge base, which we still uses today. After several volunteer term stints at SkilledUp Life, she was offered a full time position at Deal Lite.

"Volunteering through SkilledUp Life was an invaluable experience for me and I believe it helped me progress massively in my professional life. I highly recommend it."

Wishma Wickramatunga (Sri Lanka) - Multiple Volunteer roles (2021 to 2022)

**Case study 2: Career transition**

Elise dreamed of breaking into HR. All her previous attempts resulted in rejections. Before her Volunteer term ended, she landed a HR job with an American company thanks to the Experience and Skills she gained during her Volunteer Term. She was our first HR Volunteer.

"I recommend SkilledUp Life to anyone going through any kind of change in their career or any students looking to gain professional Experience and Skills."

Elise Singleton (UK & Germany) - HR Lead Volunteer (2021)

**Case study 3: Giving back**

Godwin joined us not seeking to gain experience and skills but because he felt strongly that SkilledUp Life will be able to help his country men and women uplift their lives. Godwin volunteered for more than a year before we were able to offer him a job. Today he is our Head of Marketing.

"You are practically limited only by your willingness to commit, explore and grow through SkilledUp Life. It has been an enjoyable journey networking and building a pool of new friends."

Godwin Mayaki (Nigeria) - Marketing Lead Volunteer (2021 to 2022)

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Our SkilledUp Lifers (Volunteers)

Our 50,0000 SkilledUp Lifers come from 134 countries and find immense value through volunteering in addition to gaining EXPERIENCE and SKILLS to improve their career prospects.

SkilledUp Lifers can be broadly split into three demographies:

Youngsters who want to gain the first set of real Experience and Skills to improve their career prospects. Typically aged 18 to 25 yrs.
Those in employment and in 30s and 40s exploring career transitions. SkilledUp Life gives them a safe environment to acquire Experience and Skills needed.
Middle aged and retired with immense experience wanting to give back and help a young tech company survive and grow.

Given the technology advancements taking place all around us, no one can stay still. We all need to continually upskill and stay relevant.

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Rule: Volunteer opportunities are not financially compensated. If you need to be financially compensated, that's not volunteering and you should not be on SkilledUp Life. Those who harass our tech companies demanding financial compensation will not be tolerated.

Our Partners

Range from education providers to startup accelerators. Do get in touch to discuss mutually benefiting partnerships.

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Our team Leaders

Our team has grown from one man in August 2020 to a larger team with circa 80 skilled volunteers. Current teams include: Product, Marketing, Sales, Volunteer Acquisition, Partnerships, Support and HR.

Manoj

Founder & CEO

Chidinma

Head of Support

Asinsala

Lead Product Engineer