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Cytix — £1.6M seed investment case study
£1.6M
seed raised
Case study · Cytix

De-risked for 20 months, then raised £1.6M in Seed.

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.

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
Thomas Ballin
Co-Founder, Cytix
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Founders building faster with Volunteer talent.

From first-time bootstrappers to venture-backed teams, hear how tech founders use SkilledUp Life to build, ship and grow.

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.

Michael Livingston
Michael Livingston
Founder & CEO, DustID
SkilledUp Life Tech Startup Customer Feedback from Learnhall
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Michael Hoeft
Michael Hoeft
Founder & CEO, Learnhall

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
Michael Hoeft
Founder & CEO, Learnhall

SkilledUp Life is wonderful. Love the people we found through you.

Yana Lapitskaya
Yana Lapitskaya
Co-Founder & CEO, YAi Digital
SkilledUp Life Tech Startup Customer Feedback from DustID
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Michael Livingston
Michael Livingston
Founder & CEO, DustID

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
Graham Bonwick
Founder & CEO, Valorise

Our team is still quite young but we are 98% powered by SkilledUp Life Volunteers.

Yvonne Buluma-Samba
Yvonne Buluma-Samba
Founder & CEO, LocaeRise

Through SkilledUp Life, we've connected with some genuinely talented volunteers who've made a real contribution to Potentialisation. It's been a valuable channel for finding people who care about mission-driven work.

Jon Twigge
Jon Twigge
Co-Founder & CEO, Potentialisation

SkilledUp Life is a great volunteer 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, and we are using their valuable human resource support for our projects.

Nikolay Nikolaev
Nikolay Nikolaev
Founder & CEO, HeyArt

I am very pleased with my SkilledUp Life Volunteer marketing team. In celebration of SkilledUp Life, I even created a song using AI.

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Keith Jordan
Founder & CEO, Couples Therapy

This truly helps everyone involved. There are no demands, everyone involved wants to be involved; 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
Adam Botterill
Founder & CEO, Equal Company

With SkilledUp Life, our company, the VR Superstore, committed early in our startup development to build a talent pool of excellence in young professionals and career transitioners from all around the world. In over 2 years of presence in the SkilledUp Life Community, our company has welcomed and certified over 50 volunteers in various fields of expertise, which put them in good standing to break into their respective industries.

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Dimitri Radom
Founder & CEO, The VR Superstore
SkilledUp Life Tech Startup Customer Feedback from The VR Superstore
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Dimitri Radom
Founder & CEO, The VR Superstore

I really appreciate the SkilledUp Life volunteer 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 and marketing specialists, programme managers and executive virtual assistants from SkilledUp Life.

Kelly Keurzoneff
Kelly Keurzoneff
Founder & CEO, Givelist

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
Tim Osterbuhr
Founder & CEO, Kosmo

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