Customer Testimonials
What our Tech Startup Customers say
Less than 0.1% of tech founders succeed in raising equity finance to turn their ideas into successful technology companies. People and teams build companies. Without capital, it is impossible to build teams as founder savings will not last long leaving companies vulnerable to failure. SkilledUp Life gives cash-strapped tech founders wings to operate like if they are venture-backed. For a small monthly or annual subscription, our founders are punching above their weight in building tech companies focusing on revenue growth.
“I’ve come to realise that my team of SkilledUp Life Volunteers is what will propel me to the next level. While some will choose to move on, those who extend their commitment are absolute gold 👌. They’re not staying for financial incentives, they stay because they truly believe in what we’re building. And that kind of belief and validation is something money can’t always buy, even with paid employees.”
Micheal and his team of SkilledUp Lifers are building the next generation intelligent address book by solving the problem of 80% of friends and family don’t know each others postal details.
DustID's marketing and product engines are powered by SkilledUp Lifers.
Michael Livingstone (Manchester, UK)
Founder & CEO, DustID
"Manoj and his team have been instrumental since I met him in 2022 and signed up. We have worked with talented SkilledUp Lifers in Virtual Assistant work, Design, Social Media Management, Blog Content Creation, Web Development and more from all over the world. Our company would not be where it is if not for our valued SkilledUp Life team members as they've helped us grow and maintain a good reputation in the process.”, Michael Hoeft, Founder & CEO, Learnhall
"Michael and Learnhall have been a tech startup customer since January 2022. Michael met our me first at online accelerator community, Pioneer. Michael is building an EdTech platform for private in-person and online tutoring. We have been happy to help in his tech founder journey." Manoj Ranaweera, Founder & CEO, SkilledUp Life
Michael Hoeft (USA)
Founder & CEO, Learnhall
"I am very pleased with my SkilledUp Life Volunteer marketing team. In celebration of SkilledUp Liife, In celebration I created a song using AI."
Keith Jordan (USA)
CEO, Couples Therapy
Our experience with SkilledUp Life has been great. As an early-stage startup filling all the roles that are critical to our mission was difficult. SkilledUp Life has allowed us to find talented volunteers who were able to help with new projects in design and marketing that we didn’t imagine we could explore at this early stage."
Tim Osterbuhr
Founder & CEO, Kosmo
SkilledUp Life is a great free talent service that I was impressed to find available on the market. Our education tech startup HeyArt.info was going through its most difficult recruiting effort in the initial bootstrapping phase when we came across SkilledUp Life. We easily recruited the Volunteers we need through the platform. We are using their valuable human resource support for our projects."
Nikolay Nikolaev
Founder & CEO, HeyArt
“SkilledUp Life was a great way to punch above our weight by acting as a force multiplier, giving us access to talent that a fledgling startup like ours would never normally get access to”, Thomas Ballin, Co-Founder, Cytix
Cytix subscribed to SkilledUp Life for 20 months, de-risked their business by leveraging our Volunteer talent pool and went on to secure £1.6 million Seed equity investment led by Praetura.
Thomas Ballin (Manchester, UK)
Co-Founder, Cytix
"This truly helps everyone involved.
There's no demands, everyone involved wants to be involved; therefore the mutual agreement where everyone benefits, is transparent.
So far we have partnered with some amazing people, with fantastic work ethics and ambition.
I tell all of the tech founders on my accelerator about SkilledUp Life and I'm positive you will see them sign up soon.
What's not to like?
Adam Botterill
CEO, Equal Company
With Skilled Up Life, our company, the VR Superstore, committed early in our startup development to build a talent pool of excellence in fresh starting and young professionals but also career transitioners from all around the world and all levels of experiences in digital technology and virtual reality.
While leveraging Skilled Up Life leadership, volunteers gain valuable experience and skills while making a positive impact in the startup community.
Skilled Up Life offers the opportunity to connect with professionals in various markets, such as Product, UX, HR, Sales & Business Dev, Project Management, AI/ML, Data Analysis, Software Dev etc.
In over 2 years of presence in the Skilled Up Life Community, our company has welcomed and certified over 50 volunteers in various field of expertise, which put them in good standing to break into their respective industries.
We are really pleased to be part of SkilledUp Life and to be able to provide opportunities to individuals from all over the world. We have been able to recruit volunteers with an impressive range of IT, marketing and HR expertise and build a strong and enthusiastic team. Along with the support from SkilledUp Life, we will be able to realise our concept much more quickly than we ever expected."
Graham Bonwick (UK)
Founder & CEO, Valorise
"I really appreciate SkilledUp Life free talent platform that I have been using since it went live on 1st Aug 2020. I found our technical co-founder Navindra through SkilledUp Life. I regularly recruit HR Coordinators, Design Marketing Specialists, Programme Managers and Executive Virtual Assistants from SkilledUp Life."
Kelly Keurzoneff (USA)
Founder & CEO, Givelist
"Our team is still quite young but we are 98% powered by SkilledUp Life Volunteers."
Yvonne Buluma-Samba (London, UK)
Founder & CEO, LocaeRise
