Women have made great strides in the world of technology in recent years, but there is still a long way to go to reach a truly equitable situation in labor, compensation and product development called edtech startup Entity Academy — Provide training to women in areas such as data science and software development. Mentoring; and finally Job Coaching — raised $ 100 million following strong business growth and ambitions to improve its proportions.
This money will be used by students to raise funds for Entity Academy tuition (usually $ 15,000).It comes from Raif, Is itself a startup that provides lending services to the edtech platform, allowing students to offer income share agreements (also known as ISAs, which do not require students to repay tuition until they find a job).
Jennifer Schwab, founder and CEO of Entity, has been building its business since 2016 with virtually no external funding, but this latest funding is the company’s first, more traditional VC. He said it was a precursor to working on a led equity round.
The entity does not build the e-learning content itself, but from the providers of Springboard and Lambda School, a 24-33 week long “boot camp” style course of data science, software development, fintech engineering, technology sales. Aggregate online courses. Up to Columbia University (Courses from the university tend to be presented as being created by the institution, while other courses are tailored to the student by the entity itself).
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This money will be used by students to raise funds for Entity Academy tuition (usually $ 15,000).It comes from Raif, Is itself a startup that provides lending services to the edtech platform, allowing students to offer income share agreements (also known as ISAs, which do not require students to repay tuition until they find a job).
Jennifer Schwab, founder and CEO of Entity, has been building its business since 2016 with virtually no external funding, but this latest funding is the company’s first, more traditional VC. He said it was a precursor to working on a led equity round.
The entity does not build the e-learning content itself, but from the providers of Springboard and Lambda School, a 24-33 week long “boot camp” style course of data science, software development, fintech engineering, technology sales. Aggregate online courses. Up to Columbia University (Courses from the university tend to be presented as being created by the institution, while other courses are tailored to the student by the entity itself).
Continue reading: https://californianewstimes.com/entity-academy-an-edtech-startup-that-trains-mentors-and-places-women-in-tech-roles-secures-100m-techcrunch/550466/
