Coding Dojo received $10million to upgrade its computer programming training camp.
Bellevue, Washington – the organization trains software engineers in person and online, and has experienced a year-on-year growth of more than 100% in the past two years. At present, it cooperates with institutions in 11 countries around the world and issues training course licenses to them. The organization said its goal was to expand its business to more than 24 countries by the end of 2022.
Eastword Capital Partners provides funding in the form of risky debt, a non dilutive credit instrument.
Despite the growing demand for technical talents, the coding dojo is growing at a time of increasingly fierce competition in computer science education.
“Although the distribution of talents is uniform, the opportunities are not uniform,” Wang, CEO of code Dojo, said in a statement. “Everything we do aims to minimize the economic gap caused by access to affordable high-quality technical education.”
Wang co founded the code Dojo with others in 2013. The company offers instruction in computer programming, data science, network security and other technologies. When the pandemic hit, it closed its physical location and transitioned to an online only business model. The company has reopened in Los Angeles and San Jose, California, and plans to reopen in Bellevue and Seattle.
According to the course report, there are more than 500 code schools around the world.
Codeing Dojo won geek’s feedback award at this year’s geekwire awards, which recognizes organizations that support technical education in under represented communities. The award highlights the milestone of coding dojo in the teaching of more than 11000 students around the world, and shows a number of initiatives taken by the project to help underserved students, including a recent project to teach refugee coding for free.
