Inside CampusAI’s mission to close the AI training gap for everyday workers — check it out at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

As companies push to increase efficiency and remain competitive, they encourage, or in some cases directly required, Employees learn how to use AI tools. However, the push to use AI has exposed a training gap.

“There are few solutions available on the market that are dedicated to non-technical people,” said Aurelius Gorski, Warsaw-based founder and CEO. CampusAITechCrunch said.

CampusAI’s solution? An educational platform focused on making learning accessible to everyday people who want to bring AI into their daily workflow — whether it’s to help improve sales, HR, legal, or enhance your personal branding with AI. The platform aims to help people understand and work with AI, rather than being intimidated by it.

The Polish startup spoke to TechCrunch TechCrunch disrupts conference, where it is a Startup battlefield Top 20 finalists. CampusAI’s main product is a comprehensive online learning ecosystem with two core components: an avatar-based learning model and courses featuring a virtual campus in the metaverse where users can learn more skills, connect with others, participate in community projects, and more. Think Roblox for adults.

CampusAI offers its learning platform directly to consumers or businesses looking to create an AI upskilling path for employees. The startup says it offers access to dozens of AI models — from ChatGPT and Gemini to Midjourney and Flux — so users can test and learn in one place without needing to sign up for separate accounts and subscriptions. The team updates the course daily to keep up with the rapid pace of technological change.

CampusAI’s flagship course for consumers is called Me+AI, which costs $250 per year, and allows students to personalize their learning experience. A B2B product called Team+AI costs $25,000 per year.

“We are helping implement a human plus AI readiness culture [within companies]helps companies navigate these transitions smoothly,” Gorski said.

The first three weeks of Team+AI include an AI readiness test for organizations, a workshop for managers, and a webinar for the entire organization. The past four weeks have featured personalized development pathways for employees that are tailored to meet company goals.

“You can come as a professional in a field, say, an HR specialist, or someone who works in finance, and then you find a batch of courses for yourself,” Aleksandra Przegalińska, an AI researcher and scientific advisor at CampusAI, told TechCrunch. “CampusAI is able to prepare specific pathways for specific organizations so they can have a tailor-made approach.”

CampusAI’s learning approach depends Przegalinska’s research On human-AI collaboration to improve business outcomes and solve complex problems. The approach focuses on using prompting techniques to develop AI experts that help individuals increase their abilities.

As such, CampusAI students have access to the company’s prompt book, which not only offers an assortment of prompts, but also coaches students to learn how to create better prompts. Within the virtual campus environment, students can also visit the “AI Gym” – a platform where students tackle targeted exercises and challenges created by an AI agent that provides ongoing assessments.

“We want to create an environment where you don’t just delegate tasks to the AI, but you work with it in multiple different ways,” Przegaliska said. “You can work with it in parallel, it can become your teammate, your playing partner, your critic or your coach. We think of this technology as something that is enhancing your work, not something that is taking over your work.”

CampusAI claims its courses generate a measurable ROI, with employees 40% more efficient and 60% more satisfied with their jobs. And the two-year-old company seems to have had some serious traction.

“It was a huge success in Poland in the first two weeks,” Gorski said, referring to the company launching in 2023. “We got over 600 clients who decided to buy our lifetime membership, and since that moment, we’ve grown to 35,000 users.”

CampusAI also boasts 60 enterprise customers, including ING, T-Mobile, Lenovo, and Ikea, and is on track for more than $2 million in ARR by 2025. The company is currently raising a $20 million Series A to help it Expand to 40 markets by 2030. CampusAI, which today offers its programs in Polish, English and Spanish, recently expanded to the UK and US, focusing on building B2B sales before branching out into D2C.

Users who complete courses and want to discover more can be invited to join Community+AI, a digital hub for members to connect, share knowledge and collaborate on projects — such as hAI Magazine, an online magazine where users can share sector-specific insights.

Beyond its learning environment, Gorski said, CampusAI’s digital twin technology has become a major value proposition. Instead of just running its own virtual campus, CampusAI aims to create and license digital twins of real-life university campuses, corporate showrooms, government institutions or company headquarters for the exclusive use of institutions. Digital twin products start at $100,000 per year.

CampusAI recently secured 18 million euros from the European Commission to collaborate with 11 universities in 10 countries — including Greece, Spain, the UK, France, Luxembourg and Germany — to create digital twins and customized learning environments for students.

Gorski sees these university partnerships as launchpads for local innovation centers — an approach informed by his seven years at the Cambridge Innovation Center, where he created more than 10 programs to develop Warsaw’s startup community. These virtual environments are designed as catalysts for creating local communities and virtual districts, ultimately creating a social platform built for entrepreneurs.

He emphasized that building strong local ecosystems is important to counter the dominance of big technology.

“We believe that people should focus on building strong local ecosystems, because if not, there will probably be fewer and fewer startups in the next five years, especially after what we’ve seen recently. OpenAI provides more solutions Inside an ecosystem,” he said.

If you’d like to learn more about CampusAI from the company — as well as check out dozens more, listen to their pitches and listen to guest speakers on four different stages — join us at Disrupt October 27 to 29 in San Francisco. Learn more here.