Taskbase and Micromate bring learning into everyday working life

(CONNECT) Taskbase has acquired Paixon GmbH and its Micromate platform. Both companies were founded in Zurich in 2015. According to a press release, they want to reshape the way employees learn at work in the future and bring learning from static platforms into the flow of daily work.

In 2021, Taskbase published the Lernnavi platform, which improves the math and German skills of high school students before they enter university. The system analyzes a learner's individual skills profile, identifies strengths and gaps and continuously aligns the learning path to the right content. This expertise in contextualized, personalized learning paths has been refined over the years by the spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in collaboration with educational publishers and institutions.

Micromate initially focused on the development of customized voice and chatbots and provided solutions for SBB, Swiss Post, SMEs and start-ups. Micromate embedded its micro-learning platform in Microsoft Teams to increase the acceptance of learning opportunities in companies. This means that employees no longer need an external application for short daily learning interventions of around ten minutes. When this led to higher completion rates, Micromate began cooperating with Helvetia, Sanitas and Lufthansa, among others.

Now the acquisition will combine Taskbase's deeply personalized learning intelligence with Micromate's distribution via Microsoft Teams. The integration of the two companies is already underway, with the first customer implementations planned for early 2026. Initially, the focus is on sales teams in technology companies. The platform will later be expanded to include management development and other areas of corporate learning. ce/mm