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Ascent Funding's bootcamp loans help students pay tuition and living expenses at a bootcamp or accelerated-learning program.
Overview
Location
United States, Texas, Austin
Total raised
$11.5M
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 11
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| Jun 4, 2019 | Austin-based Skills Fund is Acquired by Goal Structured Solutions of San Diego | Austin-based Skills Fund, a financing platform for bootcamps and tech skill training schools, announced Tuesday that it has been acquired by San Diego, Calif.-based Goal Structured Solutions. |
| Oct 3, 2017 | New NYCDA payment plan holds coding school’s feet to the fire | New York Code + Design Academy rolled out a new payment option for their students in Philly and Salt Lake City known as Income Share Agreements. Under the new setup, grads pay 8 percent of their post-graduation salary, a deal that only kick... |
| Aug 26, 2017 | AN INSIDER’S TAKE ON THE FUTURE OF CODING BOOTCAMPS | (TechCrunch.comBy Darrell Silver How could two coding bootcamps close while employer demand for bootcamp grads grows? The answer, in the five years since their founding, is that some schools are still at Version 1 while others continue to i... |
| Aug 26, 2017 | An insider’s take on the future of coding bootcamps | Darrell Silver Contributor Darrell Silver is the co-founder and CEO of Thinkful. More posts by this contributor What politicians are getting wrong about fixing higher education Students are demanding the facts about coding bootcamps How cou... |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Coding bootcamps commit to transparency in reporting around job placement | A group of coding boot camps and white-collar training programs from around the country are banding together to create a single standard for reporting graduation and job placement data. The move comes as these “accelerated learning programs... |
| May 6, 2016 | Coding Bootcamps’ Biggest Test: Finding Where Skills, Quality, Money and Jobs Intersect | On April 18, the second round of applications were due for the U.S. Department of Education’s EQUIP pilot, which will offer federal aid to students who attend university programs created in partnership with third-party companies, such as co... |
| Oct 26, 2015 | Skills Fund Aims to Be Accreditor, and Creditor for Coding Schools | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints The creation of Skills Fund, the Austin, TX-based startup that makes loans to people enrolling in coding and Web development bootcamps, started with two ideas. The first is th... |
| Oct 21, 2015 | Skills Fund Raises $11.5 Million in Seed Capital | Skills Fund announced Wednesday it has raised $11.5 million in seed capital to issue loans to students in coding programing bootcamps. |
| Oct 21, 2015 | Skills Fund Raises $11.5M in Seed Capital | Skills Fund, an Austin, Texas-based student financing and quality assurance platform for coding and data science programs, raised $11.5m in seed funding. The company will use the funds to issue loans to students of leading high-quality acce... |
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FAQ about Coding Bootcamp Loans
How much funding has Coding Bootcamp Loans raised?
Coding Bootcamp Loans has raised $11.5M in total across 1 funding round.
What has the press written about Coding Bootcamp Loans?
Parsers VC has collected 11 articles mentioning Coding Bootcamp Loans, among them “Austin-based Skills Fund is Acquired by Goal Structured Solutions of San Diego” (Jun 4, 2019) and “New NYCDA payment plan holds coding school’s feet to the fire” (Oct 3, 2017).
Is Coding Bootcamp Loans still active?
Yes, Coding Bootcamp Loans is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 5, 2019.