Fitch Learning and Founderz have announced a strategic alliance to offer innovative and personalized training programs to professionals worldwide. The collaboration combines Fitch Learning’s deep expertise in financial education with Founderz’s AI-powered, multilingual learning platform and internationally recognized community.
The alliance is backed by a strategic investment from HearstLab, Hearst’s US initiative to fund startups with high growth potential led by women, such as Founderz.
“The HearstLab investment in Founderz reflects our long-term commitment to dynamic, women-led tech startups, as well as to the educational mission of Fitch Group,” says Eve Burton, executive vice president of Hearst and cofounder and president of HearstLab. “This deal represents an investment model that enables us to connect companies that develop cutting-edge technology with Hearst teams looking to scale innovation and stay competitive in a world increasingly powered by AI.”
Thanks to this collaboration, both companies and individual professionals will gain access to key training solutions to close skills gaps, strengthen regulatory compliance, and scale learning across languages and geographies.
“This is a turning point in how professional competencies will be developed in the coming years,” says Andreas Karaiskos, CEO of Fitch Learning, “By partnering with Founderz, we ensure that financial services organizations can access next-generation capabilities, enabling their teams to learn faster, adapt more effectively, and stay ahead in an AI-powered environment.”
Applying AI Capabilities to Expert Content
With an ecosystem of over 700,000 trained professionals, Founderz has already driven the digital transformation of more than 1,600 global corporations and “has developed a platform designed to scale personalized learning, practice in real-world environments, and the adoption of AI across languages and countries,” explain Anna Cejudo and Pau Garcia-Milà, cofounders of Founderz. “Working with Fitch Learning and HearstLab allows us to apply these capabilities to content created by experts who know the financial sector in depth, combining learning itineraries, simulations, and AI agents to generate measurable and reliable results for both organizations and professionals.”
“By joining Fitch Learning and Founderz, we offer an AI-driven training solution built from within the financial services sector itself, and not generic training imposed from outside. That is why this agreement marks a strategic step for Fitch Group and is designed to prepare the financial sector’s learning for the future,” says Paul Taylor, president and CEO of Fitch Group.
“Founderz is a great example of the importance of international markets. Hubs like Barcelona are creating extraordinary companies, with the ambition, talent and technology needed to scale globally and connect with major corporations anywhere in the world,”
said Azahara García, international director of HearstLab.
