Building a human-centric approach to online learning is at the heart of what our team does here at Springboard. In the pursuit of that mission, we’ve grown from a handful of team members in San Francisco and Bangalore to a 40+ strong team with specialists in everything\u00a0from product design to student services, mentorship to\u00a0marketing, curriculum design to career services.<\/p>\n
We’ve hit some major milestones along the way, but none quite as big as our latest. We’re thrilled to share we’ve raised $9.5 million in Series A funding, led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation by Learn Capital and Jyoti Bansal, the founder of Appdynamics, as well as returning investors Blue Fog Capital, Rocketship.vc, and Moneta Ventures.<\/p>\n
We’ve grown by offering courses focused on skills-gap industries where demand for talent is outstripping supply. Throughout our existence, we’ve<\/span>\u00a0educated more than 7,000 students in data science, UX design, and business analytics, and\u00a0are proud to have students and alumni in nearly 80 countries. Our mentor community is a huge source of pride for all of us:\u00a0it’s made up of more than 350 professional mentors from companies ranging from Amazon and Airbnb to Uber and McKinsey.<\/span><\/p>\n\n The Springboard\u00a0<\/span>model pairs each student with an industry mentor, who provides invaluable real-world context, frequent feedback, and career advice. Through that model we’ve not only helped students achieve their goals, but we’ve built a community of learners and mentors that lasts long beyond the final course project.<\/span><\/p>\n With this funding, we’ll be able to expand courses into<\/span>\u00a0new verticals and geographies, improve upon our learning platform, expand career services and alumni support, and hire across product, marketing, engineering, and student services. It’s an exciting time to be a Springboarder!<\/span><\/p>\n Thanks for being part of the journey with us\u2014and if you’re interested in getting more involved, check out our current openings (we’re hiring!)<\/a> or learn more about our course offerings and learning model<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Building a human-centric approach to online learning is at the heart of what our team does here at Springboard. In the pursuit of that mission, we’ve grown from a handful of team members in San Francisco and Bangalore to a 40+ strong team with specialists in everything\u00a0from product design to student services, mentorship to\u00a0marketing, curriculum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":3015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_eb_data_table":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"marketing_tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31189,"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/31189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"marketing_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.springboard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/marketing_tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}