Haatch Backs CertChain in £750k Round to Transform Construction Workforce Skills & Compliance
We’re delighted to announce Haatch’s investment in CertChain, the AI-enabled workforce compliance platform across the construction sector. Haatch has co-invested alongside Ufi Ventures as part of a £750,000 funding round that will accelerate CertChain’s rollout with major UK contractors and expand its worker-focused competency tools.
Who Are CertChain
CertChain is an AI-enabled workforce compliance platform built to bring clarity, transparency, and mobility to skills management across the construction sector. The platform verifies worker credentials against more than 40 training and regulatory bodies, giving every worker a live, portable “skills passport” that can be used across employers and projects. For construction companies, CertChain replaces slow, manual checks with a centralised, digital system that allows teams to onboard, verify, and continuously monitor workforce competence in real time. Its worker-facing tools are equally innovative: Cara AI, CertChain’s personal career-progression assistant, helps individuals identify the training they need to access better roles—bringing greater fairness, opportunity, and clarity to career development in a sector where pathways have often been opaque.
Why This Matters
Construction companies today face increasing regulatory pressure to demonstrate skills and competence clearly and reliably. Without accurate, auditable records, projects risk delays, increased costs, safety failures, and even the loss of contracts. For workers, fragmented documentation can mean missed opportunities, lower pay, and a lack of visibility into the steps needed to progress. CertChain enables a step-change in how skills are managed. What previously took months (manual card checks, spreadsheets, and inconsistent skills matrices) can now be completed in minutes. Companies gain proactive, continuous monitoring of compliance risks, while workers benefit from transparent skill records they own and can build on. It is infrastructure the industry urgently needs as competence moves from “assumed” to “proven”.
Why We Are Excited
At Haatch, we back founders using software and data to solve large, complex enterprise problems, and CertChain fits this perfectly. The team is addressing a significant operational pain point with a platform that can transform compliance, unlock efficiency, and enhance safety at scale across one of the UK’s largest industries. Jeremy Luzinda, Principal at Haatch, shared: “Certchain is addressing a deep operational pain in construction: evidencing workforce competence in real time and at scale. We are excited to support Stephen, Sam, Hilde and the team.”
This investment round will help CertChain expand to major contractors, automate more of the compliance burden, and empower thousands more workers with the tools they need to take control of their careers.
Who Are CertChain
CertChain is an AI-enabled workforce compliance platform built to bring clarity, transparency, and mobility to skills management across the construction sector. The platform verifies worker credentials against more than 40 training and regulatory bodies, giving every worker a live, portable “skills passport” that can be used across employers and projects. For construction companies, CertChain replaces slow, manual checks with a centralised, digital system that allows teams to onboard, verify, and continuously monitor workforce competence in real time. Its worker-facing tools are equally innovative: Cara AI, CertChain’s personal career-progression assistant, helps individuals identify the training they need to access better roles—bringing greater fairness, opportunity, and clarity to career development in a sector where pathways have often been opaque.
Why This Matters
Construction companies today face increasing regulatory pressure to demonstrate skills and competence clearly and reliably. Without accurate, auditable records, projects risk delays, increased costs, safety failures, and even the loss of contracts. For workers, fragmented documentation can mean missed opportunities, lower pay, and a lack of visibility into the steps needed to progress. CertChain enables a step-change in how skills are managed. What previously took months (manual card checks, spreadsheets, and inconsistent skills matrices) can now be completed in minutes. Companies gain proactive, continuous monitoring of compliance risks, while workers benefit from transparent skill records they own and can build on. It is infrastructure the industry urgently needs as competence moves from “assumed” to “proven”.
Why We Are Excited
At Haatch, we back founders using software and data to solve large, complex enterprise problems, and CertChain fits this perfectly. The team is addressing a significant operational pain point with a platform that can transform compliance, unlock efficiency, and enhance safety at scale across one of the UK’s largest industries. Jeremy Luzinda, Principal at Haatch, shared: “Certchain is addressing a deep operational pain in construction: evidencing workforce competence in real time and at scale. We are excited to support Stephen, Sam, Hilde and the team.”
This investment round will help CertChain expand to major contractors, automate more of the compliance burden, and empower thousands more workers with the tools they need to take control of their careers.
By
Jessica Fox
Head of Investor Relations
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