Yoodli is ranked #17 on the Fall 2026 GeekWire 200, GeekWire’s quarterly index of the top private startups in the Pacific Northwest. This is the second quarter in a row that Yoodli has held a top-20 spot, after climbing five places to #17 in Q2 2026.
Climbing a ranking is exciting. Staying there is harder. Every quarter, new companies join the list and others move quickly. Holding a top-20 position means our growth kept pace with some of the fastest-moving startups in the region.
What Is the GeekWire 200?
The GeekWire 200 is a ranked list of the Pacific Northwest’s top startups, updated quarterly and generated from GeekWire’s larger Startup List. It tracks signals of company momentum, including headcount growth and LinkedIn audience, for private companies across Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia.
Yoodli’s Fall 2026 GeekWire 200 Ranking by the Numbers
Yoodli is ranked #17 overall on the GeekWire 200 for Fall 2026, with 132 employees, 55% headcount growth over the past year, and nearly 19,000 LinkedIn followers. Yoodli was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Seattle.
Why a Top-20 Ranking Matters for Yoodli
Yoodli is a secure AI roleplay and experiential learning platform that helps teams practice high-stakes conversations before they happen. We help organizations close the gap between training and performance, so people show up confident and prepared when it counts.
Behind the 55% headcount growth are the people building that. We’ve added teammates across sales, customer success, product, and engineering to keep up with customers who are using Yoodli in ways we didn’t originally plan for: onboarding new hires and certifying product pitches, teaching new tools through AI coaches, and practicing patient conversations in healthcare.
What’s Next for Yoodli
Our goal hasn’t changed. We want the top 10, and we have a lot planned for the rest of the year to get there.
Want to follow along? Find us on LinkedIn, or see what we’re hiring for on our careers page.
Yoodli is the AI platform for human skills. Teams use Yoodli to practice high-stakes conversations with secureAI roleplays, get real-time coaching, and measure readiness, so people show up confident and prepared when it counts. We help organizations close the gap between training and performance.
This family-owned, community bank is using Yoodli’s AI roleplays to help branch teams practice customer conversations and strengthen a consistent, relationship-centered service experience across every branch.
SEATTLE, WA — Sept. 9th 2026 — Yoodli, the AI roleplay platform for enterprise communication training, announced a partnership with Bank of Colorado, the state’s largest community bank headquartered in Colorado. Through the partnership, Bank of Colorado is rolling out Yoodli’s AI-powered practice platform across its branch network, giving employees a safe, judgment-free space to rehearse the customer conversations that define community banking.
Bank of Colorado has served generations of Colorado families and businesses for nearly 50 years, with over 45 branches spanning the Eastern Plains, the Front Range, and the Western Slope. What sets the bank apart isn’t just its longevity, it’s a service culture built on personal relationships and local decision-making. That’s exactly what the bank set out to strengthen when it brought Yoodli into its training program.
Practicing the Moments that Matter
At the heart of the rollout is Bank of Colorado’s commitment to consistent, relationship-centered service in every customer interaction. Historically, reinforcing a shared service approach across a distributed branch network meant classroom sessions, shadowing, and role-playing with managers: valuable, but hard to scale and even harder to make consistent.
With Yoodli, every branch staff can now practice realistic customer conversations with a lifelike AI roleplay partner, anytime, as many times as they need. Employees get instant, personalized feedback on what they said and how they said it, while training leaders get visibility into skill development across the entire organization.
“Our customers choose Bank of Colorado because of the people they meet in our branches. Yoodli gives every member of our team a way to practice and sharpen those conversations, so the service our customers count on is consistent across our markets.”
— Brita Jones, Director of Training, Bank of Colorado
A Community Banking Success Story
Since launching, the rollout has become one of the standout adoption stories among Yoodli’s financial services customers. Branch teams across Colorado are using AI roleplays to onboard new hires faster, build confidence before high-stakes customer moments, and turn consistent service expectations into daily habits.
“Community banks win on trust, and trust is built one conversation at a time. Bank of Colorado understood that before we ever met them, our job was simply to give their teams unlimited reps. Watching their service culture become even more consistent across branches has been one of our favorite partnership stories to date.”
— Varun Puri, CEO & Co-Founder, Yoodli
Why It Matters for Financial Services
Frontline conversations in banking carry real weight: they’re regulated, relationship-driven, and often the deciding factor in whether a customer stays for a season or a lifetime. Yoodli’s AI roleplays let financial institutions:
Scale conversation practice across every branch and role without pulling managers off the floor
Standardize service expectations with objective, repeatable feedback that supports a consistent customer experience
Onboard and upskill faster, with private practice that builds confidence before real customer interactions
Measure what was previously invisible, communication skill growth across the organization
What’s Next
Yoodli and Bank of Colorado plan to continue building on the partnership, including co-marketing initiatives later this year and an in-depth case study on the rollout and its impact across branches.
About Bank of Colorado
Bank of Colorado is a family-owned community bank serving Colorado since 1978 with over 45 locations across the Eastern Plains, the Front Range, and the Western Slope. Part of Pinnacle Bancorp’s family of independent banks, Bank of Colorado is known for its strength, stability, and commitment to the businesses and families of Colorado. Learn more at bankofcolorado.com. Member FDIC.
About Yoodli
Yoodli is the AI roleplay platform that helps enterprise teams practice high-stakes conversations, from sales calls and customer service to leadership and manager training. Trusted by leading organizations worldwide, Yoodli provides private, judgment-free practice with real-time, personalized feedback at scale. Learn more at yoodli.ai.
We’re thrilled to share that Kartik Murthy is joining Yoodli as our VP of Product, effective July 27.
Kartik brings more than 17 years of product leadership across some of the most demanding consumer and enterprise environments in tech. Most recently, he was Head of Product for Security, AI, and Expansion at Coalition, the cyber insurance leader, where his teams shipped generative AI features across the core product, automated more than 30% of servicing tasks, and expanded into five new markets to more than triple the company’s international revenue. Before that, he was VP of Product at Subject, the edtech platform formerly known as Emile Learning, and spent over four years at Meta, where he led the product management team that took Ray-Ban Stories, Meta’s first wearable device, from inception to launch.
His resume also includes leading the cross-functional teams behind Uber’s global expansion of Rides and Eats, including launching Uber Eats in India and Korea, leading Quora’s first international expansion, product management on search internationalization at Google, and program management at Microsoft. He holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Why this matters for Yoodli
Yoodli is at an inflection point. We grew revenue 900% year over year and raised a $40M Series B led by WestBridge Capital to bring AI roleplays to enterprise revenue teams around the world.
That’s where Kartik comes in. He has spent his career building products that scale across markets, languages, and platforms, from zero-to-one hardware launches at Meta to global expansion at Uber. That combination of AI depth, enterprise rigor, and international scale is exactly what Yoodli needs as we grow our platform for the world’s largest revenue teams.
“We grew revenue 900% year over year, and honestly that’s the easy part. The hard part is what comes next: turning a product people love into a platform the world’s largest enterprises run their most important conversations on. Kartik has done this before. He took Meta’s first wearable from zero to launch, tripled Coalition’s international revenue, and built PM teams that use AI to move faster than anyone thought possible. He’s a builder first, and that’s the kind of product leader Yoodli needs at this stage,” said Varun Puri, CEO and co-founder of Yoodli.
In Kartik’s words
“The cost of building software is heading toward zero, which means the companies that win won’t be the ones that ship the most features. They’ll be the ones with the clearest conviction about what to build. Yoodli has that conviction: practice is how people get better at high-stakes conversations, and AI roleplays finally make practice scalable. I’ve spent my career on 0 to 1 products and global expansion, and before I ever talked to the team, I’d already built AI roleplay prototypes on my own weekends because I believe in this space that much. Joining Yoodli at this moment, with this team and this momentum, was an easy call.”
Kartik is based in Seattle, joining us at our Pier 70 headquarters, and we couldn’t be happier to have him as we build the future of experiential learning.
Welcome to the team, Kartik.
Yoodli is a secure, experiential learning platform that uses AI roleplays to personalize real-life practice and transform how organizations learn and prepare. Learn more at yoodli.ai.
We have some news worth celebrating: Yoodli has climbed to #17 on the GeekWire 200 for Q2 2026, jumping five spots from #22 last quarter.
For anyone in Pacific Northwest tech, the GeekWire 200 is the definitive ranking of the region’s top private startups. Breaking into the top 20 and continuing to move up reflects real momentum, and we don’t take that lightly.
What the GeekWire 200 Measures
The GeekWire 200 tracks the most active and fastest-growing private tech companies across Washington, Oregon, and the broader Pacific Northwest. Rankings are determined by a combination of web traffic, social engagement, funding activity, and overall market presence. Moving up five spots in a single quarter signals meaningful acceleration across all of those dimensions.
Why This Ranking Matters to Us
Yoodli is a secure, experiential learning platform that uses AI roleplays to help teams practice high-stakes conversations before they happen. We help organizations close the gap between training and performance, so people show up confident, prepared, and ready to deliver when it counts.
This ranking is external validation that the market is paying attention to what we’re building. The momentum behind it is real: 900% revenue growth year over year, 95%+ enterprise retention, and customers like Google Cloud, Snowflake, and Databricks standardizing on Yoodli across their GTM organizations.
We’re not done. We have our sights set on the top 10.
What’s Next
Q2 was a strong quarter by every measure: new enterprise customers, expanded partnerships, product milestones, and growing momentum in sales enablement and L&D. The GeekWire 200 ranking reflects all of it.
Want to watch the journey in real time? Follow us on LinkedIn and come along for the ride.
Yoodli is an AI-powered experiential learning platform headquartered in Seattle. Learn more atyoodli.ai.
The content that prepares your team and the practice that proves they’re ready now live in one place.
For years, building a training program meant doing work in two places. You created content somewhere else, a shared drive, an LMS, a product folder, then brought it into a roleplay for practice. It worked. But it left a step between the material teams needed to learn and the platform where they went to apply it.
That gap closes today.
Yoodli now auto-generates the learning content that powers AI Roleplays. Upload any existing source material, a deck, a doc, a product brief, a playbook, and Yoodli generates structured, visual learning content in minutes. The same platform where your team practices is now the platform where their learning content is created.
The Problem Is the Distance
Most organizations don’t lack good source material. Product teams ship detailed release notes. Enablement managers maintain thorough playbooks. Sales leaders build competitive battlecards.
The problem is the distance between that material and a rep who translates it in a conversation.
Translating source content into something teachable has always required time, design tools, and manual effort. For GTM enablement managers, moving from a product launch to a live training program can take weeks. By the time training lands, the moment has often passed.
As one attendee put it in our live webinar: “ugh, documentation.” Six people upvoted it. We felt that.
Auto-generated learning content is built to close that gap. Upload your source. Yoodli generates the rest.
What It Looks Like in Practice
During our June webinar, Christen Miyasato, a lead designer at Yoodli, walked through the workflow using a scenario every retail enablement team would recognize.
Imagine you’re at Nike. A new signature shoe is dropping. Hundreds of store associates across dozens of countries need to be able to talk about it confidently before it hits shelves.
In the old world: a doc gets emailed out, maybe a PDF gets printed, associates read it (or don’t), and then walk onto the floor hoping for the best.
In Yoodli’s world: an admin uploads the product documentation and types “create training for a new shoe drop.” Yoodli auto-generates visual learning content from that material, with check-in questions woven in. Associates log in, meet their AI training persona, and get taught the material in a two-way conversation:
AI persona: “Before I dive in, what have you heard about the Carter One so far?”
Learner: “Not much. Can you just give me the top three things I need to know?”
AI persona: “Perfect. Here’s the foundation…”
The learner navigates at their own pace, asks questions in their own words, and when they’re ready, jumps into a live roleplay to practice the pitch in real time. No waiting for an instructor. No sitting through a recording to find the two minutes that matter.
Learn → Practice → Do, Finally in One Place
What makes this more than a content generation feature is the arc it creates.
Your AI tutor explains the concepts, checks in, and adapts to how the learner is engaging. If they say “I got it, skip ahead,” it skips. If they’re confused, it slows down. Once they’ve got the material, it shifts into a roleplay. Then it tests them at the end — all in the same session.
Admins keep full control throughout. Before any learner sees the generated content, you can edit text inline, regenerate individual sections with custom instructions, reorder, swap images, and customize the color palette. It’s AI-assisted, not AI-dictated.
A Few Things People Asked
Can I use my own existing content instead of generating something new? Yes. If you already have polished, roleplay-ready visuals, upload them directly and add instructions for how the AI should present them. Auto-generation is for when you have raw source material that needs to become something visual and consumable.
What does a knowledge check look like at the end? It’s conversational, not a static quiz. The format is customizable: multiple choice, scenario-based (“how would you handle this objection?”), or open-ended. Whatever your organization’s rubric looks like, you can build it in. Several customers use this for formal accreditation and partner certification, including Google Cloud and SAP.
Is my content used to train AI models? No. Yoodli is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and GDPR compliant. Your data is not used to train any AI models and can be deleted at any time.
What’s Next
This is where it starts. Today, auto-generation works inside Yoodli’s experience, upload your source material, generating the content, and your team is practicing the same day. What comes next is a tighter loop still: a single platform where learning content is created, delivered, practiced, and proven. We’ll have more to share soon.
Auto-generated learning content is generally available to all Yoodli enterprise account customers as of June 9, 2026. No additional cost, no new setup. Open your roleplay builder and look for content generation under the AI Visual Content section.
To see Yoodli in action, request a demo or explore our customer case studies at yoodli.ai.
Questions? Reach out to your Yoodli account team or visit yoodli.ai.
Training Industry, the most trusted source of information on the business of learning, has named Yoodli to its 2026 Top 20 AI Coaching and Learner Support Tools Companies list. This recognition places Yoodli among the top AI learning platforms for enterprise teams providers shaping how organizations use AI to develop their people at scale.
What Is the Training Industry Top 20 List?
Training Industry continuously monitors the L&D marketplace to identify the leading providers of AI-powered coaching and learner support. The Top 20 list is built specifically to help buy-side organizations find the right partners for enhancing learner development and performance.
Selection is based on four criteria: scope and quality of AI coaching capabilities, market presence and innovation, strength of client portfolio and customer relationships, and business performance and growth trajectory.
Being named to this list is not just a badge. It signals that a platform is delivering real, measurable outcomes in enterprise learning environments.
Why This Matters Now
The hard problem in enterprise L&D is no longer content delivery. Organizations can get information to people. The hard problem is closing the gap between knowing and doing.
Most training still measures completion, attendance, and hours trained. None of that tells a leader whether their team can handle the moment that counts. That is the gap Yoodli was built to close.
With AI roleplays, an AI Tutor that teaches from your actual content, and a full Learn, Practice, Do loop, Yoodli turns learning into action. Learners do not just consume material. They practice real scenarios, get consistent feedback, and build the skills that show up in real conversations.
Why enterprises choose an AI learning platform built for the full loop
This recognition reflects what is happening inside the organizations that use Yoodli every day:
These outcomes are not about completion rates. They are about readiness. That is where Yoodli starts.
Practice That Feels Real. Performance That Shows Up.
What separates Yoodli from traditional training tools is what happens after the content is delivered. Learners step into realistic AI-powered scenarios that mirror the conversations they actually have, with real objections, real pressure, and immediate feedback on what to improve.
Managers get visibility into readiness across their teams without sitting in on every session. Enablement teams can build structured programs that take learners from material to mastery inside a single platform. And leaders can see who is ready, who needs support, and where coaching time will have the biggest impact.
This is what the shift from tracking completion to tracking capability actually looks like.
One Platform. The Full Loop.
Yoodli is not a point solution for one team or one use case. Organizations start with high-stakes revenue teams where the ROI is immediate, then expand the same platform to L&D, leadership development, onboarding, and partner enablement.
With 900% revenue growth year over year, 95%+ enterprise retention, and nearly one million users across consumer and enterprise platforms, the market is validating what our customers already know: practice changes behavior in ways that content alone never will.
Being recognized by Training Industry is a reflection of that momentum, and of every customer who trusted Yoodli to be part of how their teams prepare.
To see Yoodli in action, request a demo or explore our customer case studies at yoodli.ai.
