A few years ago, Lydia joined a major fintech as a junior software engineer. Due to a lack of structured learning, unclear delegation, and minimal growth guidance from seniors, she eventually resigned this year.
We're tackling the massive employee retention problem for companies by solving the broken career development process. With only 19% of employees satisfied with current training options, and 94% willing to stay longer for better career investment, the market is desperate for a real solution.
On the other hand, companies lose billions annually to talent attrition, and tools that boost satisfaction through personalised learning, mentor pairing, and predictive analytics can directly increase profits by reducing turnover costs (often 1.5–2x an employee's salary). Based on market trends, our solution will help firms reduce churn by 20–30% by identifying at-risk employees early and spreading knowledge via targeted growth programs.
Our product aims to do two things;
- For the employees: Increase retention rate and employee satisfaction rate via trackable learning and development
- For businesses: Reduce business risk from key staff leaving a business by ensuring the company continues to run due to the knowledge shared programme in place, and increasing profitability via an increased retention rate.
Target Audience:
- L&D Teams (TNA)
- HR
- Mentorship communities.
Alternatives like Slack, MokaHr, Rippling and Deel are limited and don't meet our target market needs.
Increasing Employee Retention With Data & AI
Employee retention is no longer just an HR problem; it’s now a strategic business risk.
Do you know that:
- Only 19% of employees say they are satisfied with their current training and development opportunities.
- 94% say they would stay longer if their company invested more in their growth.
- And yet, most companies still rely on outdated, manual, or scattered approaches to employee growth, spreadsheets, Slack DMs, ad-hoc mentoring, or tools that were never designed for learning and development.
On the business side, the losses are enormous.
Meanwhile, organisations lose even more when institutional knowledge walks out the door, including undocumented processes, unshared expertise, and skill gaps that weren’t addressed earlier.
We built Semis because companies deserve a more intelligent, structured, and data-driven way to grow their people, and employees deserve better career development than hope and improvisation.
🤝🏾 Our ask
- We are open to warm introductions to enterprise partners seeking data-driven solutions for Training Needs Analysis (TNA) and employee churn.
- A $50K–100K pre-seed to push our go-to-market strategy and hit our $10k Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) milestone by Q2 2026.
