Overview
Mikael Wornoo co-founded TechWolf in 2018 together with Andreas De Neve and Jeroen Van Hautte, and holds the title of President. The three met as computer science students from Ghent and worked together during a Design Project course. TechWolf builds workforce and skills intelligence software that integrates with HR systems including Workday and SAP SuccessFactors.
TechWolf raised a 10 million euro Series A round in May 2022, led by Stride.VC with Fortino Ventures, Acadian Ventures and PMV participating; the company had 25 employees at the time. In June 2024 it closed a 42.75 million dollar Series B round led by Felix Capital, with 20VC, Notion Capital, SAP, SemperVirens, ServiceNow Ventures and Workday Ventures also investing, and had grown past 80 employees. The company was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2022 and a Leader in the Everest Group Skills Intelligence Platforms PEAK Matrix Assessment in April 2026. Early clients included KBC, Engie and Cegeka; customers now include HSBC, Ericsson, GSK, Booking.com, Adobe and T-Mobile.
As CEO, Mikael leads TechWolf's commercial direction, investor relations, and strategic positioning. He is the outward-facing co-founder while Jeroen Van Hautte leads technical development.
Career history
Media & appearances
- myHRfutureYouTubeHow to Use Skills Data to Solve Business Challenges (Interview with Mikael Wornoo)Mikael Wornoo discusses how Tech Wolf uses AI to help organizations understand their workforce skills at scale, and explains that the company has raised significant Series B funding from SAP and Workday to provide high-quality skills data to major HR platforms. He emphasizes that quality skills data is foundational for HR functions like personalized learning and gig recommendations, and notes that awareness and adoption of AI in HR has accelerated significantly since the launch of ChatGPT.
- myHRfutureYouTubeHow AI Is Changing the Way We Plan for Skills (with Mikael Wornoo)Mikael Wornoo discusses how TechWolf is responding to AI's impact on workforces by launching an early adopter program with innovative customers to understand AI's workforce implications. He describes the release of TechWolf's Workforce Intelligence Index, which analyzes approximately 4,500 companies using two billion job postings to assess which tasks can be automated and identify upskilling needs. He notes that AI transformation has become a central concern for organizations in 2025, with people and business topics converging around this issue.
- Deloitte USYouTubeAI puts skills in the spotlightMikael Wornoo discusses how TechWolf analyzes job postings and workplace data to help organizations understand their workforce skills and how AI will impact specific tasks and work. He explains that TechWolf provides skills intelligence and work intelligence services, noting that skills-based organizational approaches have matured into proven benefits for recruitment, internal mobility, and learning, while task-level analysis is emerging as companies prepare for AI-driven changes to work.
In the news
- I started writing an article about WorkRB: the first open-source AI benchmark for the work domain. At first glance, it’s a shared yardstick for the industry, academia & governments. But I wanted to know “what exactly are we benchmarking?” I ended up going down a rabbit hole that started with model evaluation, went through 100 years of intelligence research, and ended with the realization that IQ tests and AI benchmarks are converging on the same problem. After writing this, I’m more excited than ever about the progress of AI in the
- If you’re building enterprise software just subscribe. Dave’s blog has been my gospel. In 2021, I scraped all his articles, put them in an excel file, and just started working through them like a syllabus. That’s how good his stuff is. No one compares practical wisdom + strategy + execution like Dave. On top of that, he has been the most helpful and kind advisor along the way 🙏🏽
- The team is SHIPPING. Go check out our summer release! 🙏🏽
- We have about a decade's worth of labor market data. 2B+ postings. And... this data is a lot more powerful than most people give it credit for. When we started the company, we decided to put employee privacy first. We didn't want to scrape LinkedIn profiles or become a data broker. We chose to scrape public job posting data instead. Jeroen was ahead of the curve again :-) Exploring what AI + labor market data can tell us in the article below. Enjoy!
- I started a Substack! I'll be posting more long-form content here. My fiancée jokingly called me a yapper, and I can't disagree. Now I have an(other) outlet :-) I'm exploring a broad set of ideas around AI and the labor market. Some are more practical, some more philosophical, some more technical. If that resonates, go check it out 🙏🏽 First 3 pieces diving deeper into our AI research. We've been publishing since 2020, so it's long overdue
- The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed” is one of my all-time favorite quotes. When our customers are trying to figure out future skills, I often advise them to look at the leading startups in that area. How they hire is usually a good proxy for where the market is going. Palantir started with forward deployed engineers in 2005, most of the tech industry started 20 years later. But how do you index the labor market when keyword search doesn’t work, and LLM pipelines are too expensive? That’s what part III of the
- Skills adjacency is a pretty fuzzy concept. Skills that are close enough to your existing skillset that you could easily pick them up. We've found a way to make this quantifiable. Which means reskilling becomes quantifiable too. Our newest AI model can do that and other tasks in the work domain, without explicitly needing to train for them. All by understanding the structure of work itself. In part II of the Explaining TechWolf AI research series, I dive deeper into Unified Work Embeddings (UWE). Think of it as JobBERT's smarter
- When we first released JobBERT, we had no idea it would become the most downloaded open-source AI model in HR tech. We recently crossed 2M downloads. It’s time to explain what it is, what it does and why it works :-)
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