| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.07.2022 | U.S. Department of Education Announces $215 Million in American Rescue Plan Funds to Support Students in Puerto Rico, Boost Teacher Pay Ahead of Academic School Year | Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Puerto Rico Secretary of Education Eliezer Ramos Parés announced that $215 million in previously awarded American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds would be disbursed to schools across the island ... |
| 25.03.2021 | Holberton raises $20M as it pivots to become an edtech SaaS company | Holberton, the education startup that started out as a coding school in San Francisco and today works with partners to run schools in the U.S., Europe, LatAm and Europe, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B funding roun... |
| 24.03.2021 | Holberton Announces $20 Million Series B Led by Redpoint Eventures | SAN FRANCISCO, March 24, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Holberton, making software engineering education affordable and accessible globally, announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Redpoint eventures with new inv... |
| 25.09.2019 | Holberton School is coming to Tulsa, Oklahoma | Holberton School, the coding school that bills itself as an alternative to college for budding software engineers from all walks of life, keeps expanding. After recently opening schools in Colombia and Tunisia, the organization today announ... |
| 10.06.2019 | Holberton opens its software engineering school in Medellin | Holberton School, which sees itself as a college alternative for budding software engineers, today announced that it has opened a campus in Medellin, Colombia. With this, it now operates two schools in the country after opening its Bogota c... |
| 13.12.2018 | Holberton brings its full-stack software engineering school to Colombia | Holberton School, the full-stack software engineering school that opened its first campus in San Francisco in 2015, today announced that it is opening two campuses in Colombia, one in Bogotá and one in Medellin. This marks the school’s firs... |
| 29.09.2018 | Ne-Yo wants to make Silicon Valley more diverse, one investment at a time | Dressed in a Naruto t-shirt and a hat emblazoned with the phrase “lone wolf,” Ne-Yo slouches over in a chair inside a Holberton School classroom. The Grammy-winning recording artist is struggling to remember the name of “that actor,” the on... |
| 30.08.2018 | Improving tech education doesn’t start with tech | Automation is stripping away jobs from entire industries in the United States — and the pace of job loss is accelerating. Whole segments of the population are forced to work harder for less money. Our education has been stagnating for centu... |
| 30.08.2018 | Improving tech education doesn’t start with tech | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Automation is stripping away jobs from entire ind... |
| 12.04.2018 | Omidyar Network Joins $8.2M Series A for Holberton School | SAN FRANCISCO, April 09, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The San Francisco-based Holberton School, a college alternative for training full-stack software engineers, announced today that it has raised an $8.2 million Series A funding round led by c... |
| 10.04.2018 | Holberton School Closes $8M in Series A Funding | Holberton School, a San Francisco-based college alternative for training full-stack software engineers, raised an $8.2m Series A funding.
The round – which brings total funding to $13m – was led by current investors daphni and Trinity Ventu... |
| 09.04.2018 | Holberton raises $8M for its full-stack engineering school | Over the course of the last few years, the Holberton School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Engineering has made a name for itself as one of the more comprehensive coding schools. The two-year program trains full-stack engineers with a focus on ... |
| 26.01.2018 | Cities Amazon snubbed for HQ2 can attract other suitors by investing in local tech talent | Amazon just released the list of 20 cities that might become the host of their next office HQ2, and your city likely wasn’t on it. Yes, Amazon HQ2 is expected to bring 50,000 jobs with an average annual compensation of more than $100,000, a... |
| 26.01.2018 | Cities Amazon snubbed for HQ2 can attract other suitors by investing in local tech talent | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Amazon just released the list of 20 cities that m... |
| 25.10.2017 | Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school | Coding schools and bootcamps were booming a few years ago. But many of them only offered entry-level education, and quite a few of them are now shutting down. From the beginning, Holberton always aimed to stay above this fray by branding it... |
| 18.09.2017 | Filling Amazon’s 50,000 jobs means finding new ways to train software engineers in the U.S. | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
According to a CBinsights report, the lucky city ... |
| 18.09.2017 | Filling Amazon’s 50,000 jobs means finding new ways to train software engineers in the U.S. | According to a CBinsights report, the lucky city that will be home to Amazon’s second headquarters would need to have — or train — about 17,000 software engineers. That’s a mighty task, considering that there are already 223,054 open positi... |
| 22.06.2017 | Help wanted: Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
America has more than 6 million vacant jobs, yet ... |
| 22.06.2017 | Help wanted: Americans don’t need more degrees, they need training | America has more than 6 million vacant jobs, yet the country is “facing a serious skills gap,” Labor Secretary R. Alexander Acosta recently said. And last week his boss, President Donald Trump, said he wants to close this gap by directing $... |
| 27.04.2017 | Ne-Yo makes his first move into tech with an investment in a coding school | R&B artist and producer Ne-Yo is making his first move into tech via an investment in the Holberton School for full-stack software engineers. Yup, it turns out Ne-Yo participated in the $2.3 million round Holberton announced in February... |
| 07.02.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, February 7 | SURVEY SAYS
Earlier this year I asked Term Sheet readers to take a confidence survey created by professional services provider Semaphore. More than 500 of you did (around 30% from the private equity, 26% from venture capital, with the rest ... |
| 07.02.2017 | Holberton School Raises $2.3M in Seed Funding | Holberton School, a San Francisco, CA-based project centered platform for training students to become skilled full-stack software engineers, raised $2.3m in seed funding.
The round was led by daphni with participation from Reach Capital and... |
| 07.02.2017 | Holberton School Raises $2.3M from Insight Venture Partners | The San Francisco-based Holberton School, an alternative to college for training students to become highly skilled full-stack software engineers, announced today it has raised $2.3 million led by daphni and joined by private equity and vent... |
| 06.02.2017 | Holberton School raises $2.3 million to train software engineers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The Holberton School, founded two years ago to he... |
| 06.02.2017 | Holberton School raises $2.3 million to train software engineers | The Holberton School, founded two years ago to help fill the tech skills gap using non-traditional learning techniques, has raised $2.3 million to boost that effort. The funding round was led by daphni, a European venture capital firm with ... |
| 13.12.2016 | The Software Engineering School That Could Land You a Great Career | The tech industry is booming, and all data indicates that it will continue to grow strongly. Considering this, it is reasonable to expect a high demand of qualified professionals, especially for the most sought programming languages. In add... |
| 05.12.2016 | Why education should become more like artificial intelligence | Sylvain Kalache Contributor
Sylvain Kalache is co-founder of Holberton School, a two-year program training highly skilled full-stack software engineers at scale. An entrepreneur and software engineer, he has worked in the tech industry for ... |
| 20.08.2016 | Silicon Valley sucks at training software engineers — and that’s a problem | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Even though the name “Silicon Valley” represents ... |
| 20.08.2016 | Silicon Valley sucks at training software engineers — and that’s a problem | Even though the name “Silicon Valley” represents to the world the epicenter of the technology industry, statistically speaking, most tech businesses are not located in the area. Increasingly, the Valley’s companies are shifting key operatio... |
| 15.06.2016 | AcadGild brings its coding classes to the US | If you want to learn how to program, you’re spoiled for options these days. You can opt to go at your own pace with the likes of Codecademy, try free and paid MOOCs, or sign up for in-person instruction at the Holberton School and similar p... |
| 27.11.2015 | Holberton Wants To Be A Different Kind Of Coding School | By now, there are plenty of coding schools that will happily train you to become a junior programmer within a couple of months. Most of them will teach you the basics, but to become a full-stack engineers, a 12-week boot camp usually just i... |
| 01.10.2015 | New VC-Backed School Joins Ranks of SF’s Indie Coding Skills Shops | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Francisco hosts so many freestanding computer programming schools and code bootcamps now that it’s hard to keep track of them all. But make room for another one.
A trio of... |
