Strivr

• Strivr was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
• The company prides itself as the leader in Immersive Learning and seeks to revolutionize how companies train and perform.
• The company specializes in Virtual Reality (VR) to design solutions to help employees become better prepared, more engaged, and acquire new skills faster with data-driven insights.
• As one of its solutions, Strivr has a software platform which “is based on a secure and compliant infrastructure. It powers the creation, management, and experience of immersive training with a unique level of data-driven insights and predictive analytics.”
• It also offers professional services, including strategy and planning, curriculum design, performance analysis, customer support, and implementation & change management.
• The company has an estimated annual revenue of $10M.  

Use Cases and Client Wins

•  Health and Safety: One of the use cases of Strivr solutions is in the area of health and safety, where employees are trained on hazard identification, safety procedures, emergencies, confined space, and lock-out tag-out procedures.
• One client win was with Verizon Associates, who “learned to handle robberies at store opening and closing, as well as ‘snatch & grab’ scenarios.”
• Through VR, they were able to experientially learn about the desired critical steps of deescalating a high-risk situation and how to make the right decisions under pressure.
•  Customer Service: For customer service, Strivr provides services for front-line employee training, empathy training, handling difficult customers, call center training.
• Through Strivr's Immersive Learning, Verizon’s call center employees learned about essential tips to understand, manage, and deescalate angry customers.
•  Soft skills: Strivr also has solutions for inculcating soft skills such as giving feedback, hiring, on boarding, interview training, difficult conversations, executive and manager development, and candidate and employee assessment.
•  Operational Efficiency: The company provides solutions for operational efficiency, including front-line processes, store operations, a new process or equipment roll out, and lean methodology training.

Recent News

• An article titled "To train more workers, companies turn to virtual reality", Strivr is mentioned as one of the companies at the forefront of virtual-reality based employee training, alongside Talespin.