Workera named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. * By Workera * Aug 13, 2026 Updated Aug 13, 2026 * 0 Workera was recognized for three-year revenue and talent growth, earning a place among the nation's most successful independent businesses PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Workera, the AI agent platform built to maximize human potential, has been named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 list, the annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list recognizes companies that have achieved significant growth while also driving progress, fostering talent, and shaping the future of the national economy. "This Inc. 5000 recognition validates what we're seeing across our customers: skills intelligence is now foundational infrastructure for AI transformation," said Kian Katanforoosh, CEO of Workera. "As AI accelerates the pace at which skills change, organizations need a continuous signal of what their people can do. At Workera, we're building AI agents that live in the flow of work and help organizations make smarter decisions about hiring, mobility, development, and AI readiness." Companies on the 2026 Inc. 5000 were ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2022 to 2025. Among the 5,000 companies on the list, the median three-year revenue growth rate was 130%. "Every company on the Inc. 5000 has a story of perseverance, smart decision making, and a refusal to sit still," says Mike Hofman, editor-in-chief of Inc. "Their growth reflects more than strong financial performance - it reflects creativity, resilience, and the customer focus required to build companies that make a lasting impact. We congratulate all honorees on this significant achievement." Workera was previously selected for the 2025 Inc. 5000 list, demonstrating the company's continued innovation and growth year over year. Workera has also been recognized by TIME's Best EdTech Companies and World's Top HRTech Companies, the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, and Inc.'s 2025 Fastest Growing Companies. These acknowledgements, coupled with Workera's recent launch of Ambient, reflect the company's leadership in helping companies build skills for the AI era. For the full Inc. 5000 list, honoree company profiles, and a searchable database by industry and location, please visit: www.inc.com/inc5000. About Workera Workera is the AI agent platform built to maximize human potential. Workera reads capabilities from the tools people already work in, verifies them continuously, and does so at scale. Our four purpose-built AI agents handle every talent decision: who to hire, who's ready to move, where the gaps are, and how to close them. The newest, Ambient Coaching, surfaces skills intelligence in the flow of work. Trusted by the Fortune 100, Workera has been recognized by TIME's Best EdTech Companies and World's Top HRTech Companies in 2025 & 2026; the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers; and Inc.'s 2025 Fastest Growing Companies. In 2024, Workera was named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies alongside Microsoft, Canva, and others leading the AI revolution. Learn more at workera.ai. About Inc. Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com. SOURCE Workera Submit your news. We're always interested in hearing about news in our community. Let us know what's going on!

Workera partners with Kombo to deliver verified skills data across 200+ HRIS and ATS platforms through a single connection. One integration writes verified capability results into the systems of record where hiring, internal mobility, and upskilling decisions are actually made. Workera, the AI agents company powering the skills intelligence layer for the enterprise, announced a partnership with Kombo that delivers verified skills data into more than 200 HRIS and ATS platforms through a single connection. Workforce capability data is scattered across applicant tracking, learning, and HR systems, and most of it is self-reported, inferred, or stale. Only 33% of business leaders believe their current talent data is sufficient to make informed decisions, according to Gartner, a gap that creates roughly a 20% drag on operational efficiency. As enterprises race to plan for AI, that missing signal has real consequences: BCG finds that 80% of AI initiatives fail to deliver value because leaders mistake tool access for actual workforce capability. "Every talent system runs on data and could work dramatically better with data that's actually trustworthy," said Kian Katanforoosh, founder and CEO of Workera. "Thanks to our partnership with Kombo, we're now surfacing Workera's verified skills data across all of those systems. Recruiters, line managers, and enterprise leaders keep working in the tools they already know best, now connected to Workera and its best-in-class data. That's the vision: one verified signal, available everywhere a talent decision gets made." Through the single connection with Kombo, Workera pulls employee and candidate lifecycle data in and pushes verified capability results back out. On the HRIS side, the integration syncs employee records daily to add, update, and deactivate users automatically, uses HRIS attributes to enroll employees into the right development programs, and writes verified skill ratings natively onto employee profiles, normalized to each platform's own scale and mapped to the customer's taxonomy with admin approval before anything goes live. On the ATS side, advancing a candidate to the assessment stage triggers the right Workera assessment automatically, and status, score, and pass/fail results land back on the candidate record. Purpose-built integrations carry the same verified signal into an LMS and deep-link learning recommendations to the exact content that closes a verified gap in libraries. What sets the approach apart is the nature of the signal itself. Competing platforms infer skills from resumes and job titles or label them from work artifacts. Both are guesses, and self- or manager-confirmed skills are opinion, not proof. Workera verifies capability through measurement and delivers that fact as a first-class skill rating the platform understands, not a file someone has to export, map, and upload. The posture is additive by design: Workera strengthens the HRIS, ATS, and learning systems an enterprise already runs rather than replacing them. Authentication stays with Kombo, which operates as a subprocessor under the customer's data-privacy agreement, so Workera never stores raw HRIS credentials. Callbacks are cryptographically signed and verified, and platforms use OAuth 2.0 flows. Workera itself is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001:2023 certified, and GDPR and CCPA compliant. "Enterprises shouldn't have to choose between trustworthy skills data and a stack that's realistic to maintain," said Alexander Kuebel, CEO and Co-Founder at Kombo. "Our unified API lets Workera reach hundreds of HRIS and ATS systems through one connection, so verified capability data reaches the systems companies already run without a point-to-point build for every platform." [To share your insights with us, please write to [email protected]]

Workera has partnered with Kombo to integrate verified skills data across more than 200 HRIS and ATS platforms through a single connection. The partnership addresses a critical gap: only 33% of business leaders believe their current talent data is sufficient for informed decisions, according to Gartner. The integration automatically syncs employee records, writes verified skill ratings onto employee profiles, and triggers assessments for candidates. Unlike competitors that infer skills from CVs or self-reported data, Workera verifies capabilities through measurement. Kombo's unified API eliminates the need for point-to-point integrations for each platform. The system is SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001:2023 certified, and GDPR and CCPA compliant. Most integrations can be enabled the same day.