Skillable is a virtual labs and hands-on learning company focused on helping organizations build, practice and validate technical and digital skills in real software environments. Since 2004, Skillable has supported programs for employees, customers and partners with experiential training that moves beyond passive content and ties learning to observable performance.
The company serves use cases such as customer education, technical enablement, job readiness, live events, certification prep and performance-based testing. Its platform supports exploratory sandboxes, guided training labs, scored skill validation experiences, simulations and hybrid environments, giving organizations a practical way to accelerate product adoption, strengthen readiness and measure skills at scale.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Skillable combines lab creation, delivery, administration and measurement capabilities in one environment. Organizations can build custom hands-on experiences, run instructor-led or self-paced programs, automate scoring against live lab activity, monitor learners in real time and analyze engagement, performance and consumption data.
Its platform is designed to fit existing learning and testing ecosystems through LMS connectivity and standards-based or API-driven integration methods, including SCORM, LTI and API options. Skillable also supports white-label experiences, badge and certificate workflows, and cloud-based lab delivery using Microsoft Azure and AWS so customers can provision secure, controlled practice environments for training and assessment.
Products and Services
- Skillable Studio: Authoring and lab operations platform for building, customizing, publishing and scaling hands-on labs and practical assessments across instructor-led, self-paced, event and certification use cases.
- Skillable Challenges: Scenario-based, scored hands-on labs that help learners practice, build proficiency and validate skills across cloud, security, AI and other technical domains.
- Skillable Marketplace: Self-service catalog where organizations and creators can publish, sell and buy ready-to-launch hands-on lab content on demand.
- Skillable Storefront: Direct purchasing experience for Skillable-hosted hands-on labs, with support for instructors, learners and optional use of Skillable TMS.
- Skillable TMS: Training management system for delivering classes, course assignments and subscriptions, managing catalogs and learning paths, and supporting instructors and learners in virtual lab programs.
- Skillable Insights: Analytics and reporting platform that gives program managers dashboards, detailed reports and historical billing visibility for labs and learner activity.
- Microsoft Learn ILT Courseware: Microsoft-authorized instructor-led training and practice lab offering for Microsoft Learning Partners, with Microsoft Learn integration and achievement support.
- Azure Lab Services: Azure-based lab hosting offering for Microsoft training, education and testing scenarios, supporting environments from single virtual machines to more complex cloud lab configurations.
- Authorized Vendor Labs and Hosting: Hosted virtual lab environments for software and certification providers, including vendor-authorized content used in training and exam-preparation programs.
- Custom Courseware Development: Professional service for creating classroom, virtual classroom, self-paced and sales enablement learning assets tailored to technical training programs.
- Custom Virtual Lab Development: Professional service for designing and building hands-on software labs for customer education, technical enablement and skill validation.
- Staffing and Consulting: Professional services that augment customer teams with program, instructional design, content development and deployment expertise.
- Live Event Services: Service that brings hands-on workshops and virtual labs to in-person, virtual and hybrid events.
Target Customers
Skillable primarily targets software and technology companies that need hands-on customer education, partner enablement, technical sales readiness and product adoption programs. It also fits enterprise learning and talent teams that want to build job-ready employees, validate applied skills and use performance data to support onboarding, upskilling and workforce planning.
Skillable also serves training providers, system integrators, Microsoft Learning Partners, certification bodies and testing providers that need reliable lab delivery for instructor-led training, exam preparation and performance-based testing. Organizations running live events, workshops or large-scale skilling programs are a strong fit when they need secure, repeatable environments delivered across global audiences.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS: Skillable supports AWS as a native cloud lab fabric through Cloud Slice and cloud virtualization in Skillable Studio, enabling controlled temporary access to AWS accounts and resources for hands-on labs.
- Microsoft Azure: Skillable supports Microsoft Azure through Cloud Slice, Azure-based virtualization and Azure Marketplace or Azure Compute Gallery image support, and it offers Azure Lab Services for Microsoft training and testing scenarios.
Key People
- Corey Hynes: Executive Chairman
- Chris McCarthy: Chief Executive Officer
- Mark Mangelson: President and Chief Revenue Officer
- Danny Abdo: Chief Operations and Product Officer
- Brian Barnum: Chief Financial Officer
- Sarah Noe-Danzl: Chief Marketing Officer
- David Reed: Chief Growth Officer
- Frank Gartland: Chief Solutions Officer
- Lori Cummings: Chief People Officer
- Chris Sears: Chief Software Architect
- Barry Martin: Executive Vice President, Platform Infrastructure and Cloud
- Nate Barrett: Senior Vice President of Product
Key Facts
- Headquarters: New Port Richey, Florida, United States
- Employees: 201-500 (approximately 280)
- Annual Revenue: $25M-$50M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No (privately held)
