2023 year in review: Cool awards, motivated members, reaching new portals… and more.

We’re glad to have continued our dedication to showing professionals the magic of micro-learning. Working hard to keep delivering engaging, digestible learning experiences that drive productivity and skill development.

Take a look at everything we’ve accomplished this year:

Major 5milestones

  • We won the Cool Tool Award from Edtech Digest in the Professional Skill Solution category.
  • Van Lanschot Kempen featured our success together in their 2022 Annual Report.
  • We expanded our preboarding and onboarding training at KPMG via Appical
  • 5miles was added to Archipel Academy's learning portals, and reached partners like ING, TenneT, and Achmea.

In numbers

  • We saw 143,813 learning moments.
  • We started working with 6 new partners, including Broadview, APG, and BrandLoyalty.
  • Our billings grew by 35%.
  • Our Net Promoter Score (NPS) increased to 36 from 31 in 2022.

Product upgrades

We’ve enhanced our learning platform with by adding:

  • Spoken challenges.
  • PE points, helping members earn professional development credits.
  • iDeal payment option for easier access.
  • Multi-Factor Authentication, ensuring enhanced information security aligned with ISO27001 standards.
  • Author module enabling clients to create customised content, challenges, and learning tracks.
  • Certificates with client branding, elevating user achievements.
  • Embedded videos within challenges.
  • All courses are now available in French!

Also—our daily challenge limit now adapts to subscription types, catering to both daily learners and busy professionals who prefer flexibility.

New launches

  • Advanced Power BI 2 is now available, offering deeper insights and more advanced analysis techniques.
  • To improve presentation skills, we’ve introduced 10 new think-cell challenges focused on creating professional, data-driven slides.
  • The new Excel XLOOKUP course simplifies complex data analysis and helps streamline work in Excel.
  • We revamped the PowerPoint track for a big-four accountancy firm, aligning it with their updated branding style and supporting employees in adopting the new style seamlessly.

Check out the latest 5miles training overview in English or Dutch.

Happy partners & members

  • “Micro-learning helps me stay consistent and focused.”
  • "The content is good with nice explanations and the team behind is very approachable."
  • “A great way to get many practical tips in a short time, often immediately applicable”.  

Member achievements

  • Chris Hutten from KPMG was our 5miles Runstreak competition winner. He shared his experience and passion for Excel tricks while competing with other professionals.
5miles' 2023 Runstreak winner

Our team

Coming up in 2024

  • Expanding the Power BI offering with Dutch content.
  • Launching our first AI trainings around ChatGPT and Copilot, in collaboration with Microsoft Early Access Program partners.
  • Onboarding an array of exciting new partners, watch this space!

Here’s to another year of learning, growth, and innovation. Thank you to our clients, members, and team for making this possible yet again. We can’t wait to share what’s next with you.