INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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 the basics of engineering and sees itself as an alternative to a
traditional college experience
Today, the San Francisco-based school announced that it has raised an $8.2 million Series A round that will help it expand its programs.The
funding round was led by current investors daphni and Trinity Ventures
The Omidyar Network joined as a new investor
With this, the school has now raised a total of $13 million.Holberton is currently teaching about 200 students (who have to pass a pretty
rigorous entry exam) and the plan is to scale the program to 1,000 students per year
Past students have found jobs at companies like Apple, IBM, Tesla, Docker and Dropbox
jobs.To enable its expansion to 1,000 students, the team recently moved into a far larger space in San Francisco that can handle about 500
prospect of student loans
In its recent classes, about 40 percent of the students were women, for example, and a slight majority of students were minorities
Students at Holberton come from all walks of life, from cashiers to musicians to poker players (as well as right out of high school) without
