Gigged.AI secures £1 million investment to scale AI-powered skills intelligence platform
Gigged.AI has secured £1m of additional funding over the last 10 months including new investment from Par Equity and Scottish Enterprise.
The round also has notable participation from high profile angel investors including former Skyscanner CFO Shane Corstorphine, former Skyscanner and Current Health COO Richard Lennox as well as former CEO of UserTesting Andy MacMillan who is now CEO of Alteryx.
The investment, which comes in the same week the firm celebrates four years since starting the business in a Glasgow apartment, will be used to accelerate the growth of Gigged.AI’s customer base in the UK and US amid a growing concern over tech skill shortages caused by the rise in AI projects.
A survey by Gigged.AI earlier this year, which interviewed 300 senior enterprise tech leaders, highlighted that more than two thirds (69%) are feeling concerned about the tech talent shortage in 2025, and a quarter are concerned they lack the internal skills to fill roles (26%).1
According to IDC, the inability to secure tech talent will cost organisations $5.5 trillion globally in revenue loss, delays and quality issues.2
The Gigged.AI Skills Intelligence Platform gives technology leaders within enterprise organisations real-time visibility and control over all available skills across their internal employees, contingent workers and AI agents. By connecting these three talent pools into one platform, organisations can match the right capability to the right project, improve utilisation, and reduce delivery bottlenecks. For leaders resourcing a new digital transformation initiative or reassigning internal bench talent, the platform ensures each workstream has access to the skills it needs without delays or silos.
Gigged.AI has 12 enterprise clients including Fortune 500 firms such as Leidos and Concentrix with a strong pipeline in the USA for the rest of 2025 and beyond.
Gigged.AI CEO and Co-founder Rich Wilson said: “We have seen first hand that most enterprises are losing revenue through tech skill shortages, with the rise in AI accelerating that challenge. By combining internal employees, external freelancers and pre-built AI Agents our technology is helping tech leaders fill skill gaps quickly.”
Paul Atkinson, Par Equity Partner and staffing industry veteran with multiple exits in the sector, said: “The future of work is a fast-growing segment. Over the last 12 months Gigged.AI has successfully pivoted to enterprise and is now well positioned to be a category leader with huge market potential.”
Gigged.AI is also close to launching a new Agentic AI feature called Sia (Skills Intelligence Agent), which is designed to help enterprise tech teams instantly find and deploy the right skills at the right time. Through a simple, natural language interface, Sia transforms voice or text prompts like “Find me a Data Analyst for next week” into scoped projects and intelligent matches in seconds.
“Sia brings together three talent sources into one interface, giving CIOs and CTOs the ability to deliver projects faster through real-time skills intelligence,” said Craig Short, CTO of Gigged.AI. “It’s a game-changer for busy tech leaders who need to find the right skills at the right time.”
In parallel, Gigged.AI has joined the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, allowing enterprise customers to procure the Skills Intelligence Platform through their existing Microsoft agreements.
“Making our products available within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem streamlines procurement, accelerates onboarding, and ensures enterprise-grade scalability,” added Wilson. “It’s now easier than ever for large enterprises to deploy skills intelligence with confidence.”
The Skills Intelligence Platform supports integration with Microsoft Teams, Entra ID, Power BI and other Azure-native tools, enabling seamless rollout across enterprise environments.
Wilson is confident about the future for the Glasgow based start-up:
“We launched Gigged.AI 4 years ago this week and I am excited to announce the fresh funding, our new Agentic AI features and Microsoft Azure listing on this day. We are a proud Scottish start-up with ambitions to scale globally. This support from Par Equity, Scottish Enterprise and high-profile angels with a Scottish connection will help propel us forward.”
References
- Gigged.AI: The AI Talent Crisis report, February 2025
- IDC: IT Skills Shortage Expected to Impact Nine out of Ten Organizations by 2026, May 2024