Bozeman entrepreneur Chris Hedrick helps launch NextStep Interactive app to train workers displaced by technology

Robots are taking over workers’ jobs, there’s no doubt about it.

McKinsey and Co., a research firm, found that 45 percent of current jobs could be replaced by artificial intelligence, and researchers expect that number to keep climbing, displacing millions of workers.

To solve this problem, a local entrepreneur has launched NextStep Interactive http://nextstep.careers/ , a company that will use a mobile phone app to help train workers displaced by artificial intelligence and automation for careers in the growing health care industry.

By Abby Lynes Chronicle Staff Writer

https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/business/bozeman-entrepreneur-helps-launch-app-to-train-workers-displaced-by/article_05b0a86e-9fa5-5091-afee-469e7bc90aae.html

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NextStep Raises $3.15 Million to Develop Accelerated Learning Technology

Platform Linking Workers in Jobs Disrupted by AI With High Growth Careers in
Healthcare

JAZZ Venture Partners, LearnStart, SpringRock Ventures Lead Funding for Pioneer Square
Labs Spinout Company

NextStep Interactive announced today
it has raised a $3.15 million round of seed financing to develop technology and acclerated
learning solutions enabling workers whose jobs have been disrupted by AI and automation to
develop high-growth careers in healthcare.

The oversubscribed round was led by JAZZ Venture Partners, with participation from Pioneer
Square Labs, Learn Capital’s LearnStart fund, and Springrock Ventures. NextStep is the eighth
publicly announced spinout of Seattle-based startup studio Pioneer Square Labs.

http://nextstep.careers/press_release_%20nextstep_raises_3_15_million.pdf