The AI role-play and interactive video platform where people rehearse the hard conversations before they happen for real.
THE FILE: Virti's wordmark. A no-code training platform built by a surgeon who noticed the biggest workplace failures were rarely technical - they were human.
Most workplace training tells you what to do and then hopes you can do it under pressure. Virti takes the opposite approach. The platform, founded in 2018 by former NHS trauma and orthopedic surgeon Dr Alex Young, lets people rehearse the difficult moment - the tense patient handover, the objection-heavy sales call, the awkward feedback conversation - in realistic, interactive simulations, on repeat, until the behavior sticks.
The idea traces back to the operating theatre. Young noticed that when things went wrong, the failures were rarely about clinical knowledge. They were about communication, decision-making and composure under stress - the human skills that traditional e-learning barely touches. Virti was built to train exactly those skills, using two ingredients: branching interactive video and conversational AI Virtual Humans you can actually talk to.
Learners hold real, spoken conversations with AI "Virtual Humans" that use voice recognition and adaptive responses - ideal for sales, leadership, customer service and clinical scenarios.
Branching, decision-based video puts learners inside realistic workplace situations where every choice changes what happens next.
Lifelike AI characters give real-time, interactive feedback on how you communicate - not just whether you passed a quiz.
Cloud tools to build a simulation in minutes, deploy across mobile, desktop and VR, and measure performance with computer vision and NLP.
Virti sells to organizations whose hardest work is a conversation. That turns out to be a wide field - healthcare systems, global enterprises, universities and public-sector bodies all appear on the customer roster.
Illustrative spread of Virti's use cases across sectors.
Chart is directional, based on publicly described use cases - not audited market-share figures.
Complex roles are hard to train for: limited access to realistic practice, few safe chances to fail, and no clean way to measure how someone actually performs.
Deliberate practice. Learners run the same high-stakes scenario repeatedly, get AI feedback each time, and improve the behavior - not just the recall.
Virti reports training-outcome improvements of up to 230%, and its approach was recognized by TIME and Fast Company.
How it differs from competitors. Against traditional LMS and e-learning vendors, Virti's edge is active, spoken practice rather than passive content. Against other immersive-training players - Talespin, Mursion, Bodyswaps, Strivr - its distinguishing bets are a no-code authoring suite that lets non-technical teams build scenarios in minutes, true multi-platform delivery (phone, laptop and VR from one build), multilingual Virtual Humans across 40+ languages, and analytics powered by computer vision and NLP.
B2B SaaS. Virti licenses its immersive training and AI role-play platform to enterprises, health systems, universities and government - with authoring, deployment and analytics delivered from the cloud.
Raised roughly $12M in total, headlined by a $10M Series A in June 2021 led by IQ Capital with participation from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - an investor that is also a customer.
A team of around 17 spanning the US, Canada, UK, New Zealand and Taiwan, blending clinical and medical-education expertise with software, game design and AI. Kurt Kratchman serves as Chief Executive Officer.
The company's DNA is clinical simulation and human-performance training, extended into sales, leadership and customer service - a rare crossover of medicine, learning science and applied AI.
Dr Alex Young launches Virti to bring immersive, scenario-based training to complex roles.
Named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2020 and wins the NHSX challenge for community COVID-19 response training.
Raises a $10M Series A led by IQ Capital with Cedars-Sinai, and lands on Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list.
Expands AI role-play with real-time speech and multilingual support across 40+ languages.
Recognized by Emerge as a top EdTech company in workforce development and rolls out a refreshed identity.