Opus, a New York-based training platform for businesses with a deskless workforce, raised $6.8M in Series A funding.

The round was led by Stage 2 Capital. Other investors included Gutter Capital, NextView Ventures, and Bling Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Mandy Cole, Partner of Stage 2 Capital, joined as a Board Director.

The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.

Led by CEO Rachael Nemeth, Opus is a mobile-first learning platform for businesses to improve the productivity of their frontline teams. It is designed to help businesses with a large distributed workforce minimize labor costs and increase sales by offering accessible training technology that can reach 99% of employees. Opus automates every part of the employee training lifecycle in a single system and delivers all forms of training to employees’ phones through a mobile application that is available in more than 100 languages.

Since launching in early 2020, the company has built a customer portfolio of food service brands including Taim, Kevin Hart’s Hart House, Just Salad, Luke’s Lobster, Swingers Golf, Gregorys Coffee, Vanderbilt University, and Rhode Island School of Design.

Opus also expanded its executive team with Doug Freeman as the Chief Revenue Officer, coming from Remesh, The Muse, and Living Social, Frances Liu as VP of Marketing, coming from Instawork and Upwork, and Opus’ Co-founder Jeffrey Silver was appointed as Chief Technology Officer and Board Director.