AICertified was founded last year by Ian Dodson, who previously co-founded the Digital Marketing Institute.
AICertified, an Irish edtech company, has announced that it has secured €1m in funding. The round was led by Oyster Capital, with support from Enterprise Ireland.
In 2025, the Dublin-based edtech was established by entrepreneur Ian Dodson, who is also the co-founder of the Digital Marketing Institute – which was itself acquired by Spectrum Equity in 2017 and later by BPP Education Group in 2023. In its own words, the company wants to “create the global certification standard for AI skills”.
Dodson said: “This is about more than a course or a certificate – it’s about creating a measurable and trusted framework for competence in AI. The AI training market today is fragmented and fundamentally unreliable. No one has yet defined what it is to be AI certified, nor the progression route to get there.”
He added that AICertified aims to set a “single reliable standard, provide an outcome-driven path and certify skills in a way employers and students can trust”.
The investment is intended to accelerate product development, grow AICertified’s team from eight to 15 and scale the company’s learning platform ahead of its first course, which is set to launch in February of this year.
“We invested in AICertified because Ian and his team have done it before,” said Martin Scully, the CEO at investor at Oyster Capital. “The demand for structured, credible AI training is enormous. We see a clear path to a market-leading AI training company emerging from Ireland – one built to guarantee outcomes for employers and graduates.”
In other edtech news, in October of last year, Irish edtech Wriggle Learning, which is a Dublin-based company, announced the creation of 90 jobs to be made available across its customer support, tech support, teaching, sales and marketing teams. The roles are expected to be filled by 2027.
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