i-AMdigital

Building a venture to unleash the potential of people in emerging technology

Working in partnership with the team at TES on a new platform venture, I have first hand experienced the creativity and design insights they bring in developing digital products.

Nick Pearce, co-founder i-AMdigital

About i-AMdigital

Everyone wants to apply their biggest talent in their lifetime. For many great talents, that means having a career in which they can play to their strengths, working on a cause that is meaningful and fulfilling. However, with the rise of new markets and jobs, driven by emerging technologies, many talented people struggle to understand where these come together. We believe that getting talent in the right place unleashes its full potential.

In our search to solve this challenge we found ADG, one of the largest additive manufacturing recruiters in the world. Like TES, ADG has extensive experience in emerging technologies and we saw a great opportunity for talent to make a difference. Together we set out on the endeavour to unleash upcoming talents’ full potential in emerging technologies.

Building a joint venture

ADG and TES partnered to further explore the problem and possible solutions. After collaborative market research, and working towards a partnership with HP, we founded and co-financed the joint venture i-AMdigital.

TES activated its network and built a team of industry specialists, product designers and strategists that complemented ADG’s deep HR knowledge and industry network. With a design thinking approach, the team members worked closely to research and define unmet needs of emerging talent and employers to inform smart product and business decisions - resulting in an MVP set to launch January 2019, a preregistered talent pool and a list of launching customers.

Solution

i-AMdigital is a digital career platform that nurtures and cultivates talent, and positively impacts additive manufacturing, bringing together courses, content, development tools and vacancy listings. The real game changer lies at the core of the platform: an automated career mentor that understands talents’ background, their transferable skills and ambitions. The mentor helps move people with talent to offer towards their goals.

Next steps

i-AMdigital was presented to the public at Formnext, the largest additive manufacturing fair in the world and will launch January 2019.

In 2019 the company will validate the MVP and quickly iterate to improve the platform. The intelligence behind the career mentor will be developed and implemented. Additionally, we will experiment with new technology domains besides additive manufacturing.

TES will stay deeply involved as Entrepreneurs in Residence, further developing innovation strategies, the product and services, the business model and the team, as well as securing a seed investment.

  • About

    • Domain: Industry 4.0
    • Collaboration: TES.begin
    • Period: Sept 2017 - now

  • Methods and tools

    • Additive Manufacturing
    • Lean Startup
    • Context Research
    • User Experience Design
    • Agile Development
    • Business Development

  • Involved network

    • Alexander Daniels Global Alexander Daniels Global
    • De Wortel Van Drie De Wortel Van Drie