Investment for Winc Academy programming school

This entry was posted on Emerce on December 11, 2019.

The new Dutch school Winc Academy, which trains programmers, has raised six hundred thousand euros from private investors and the Noord-Holland Innovation Fund.

These are angel investors Heleen Dura van Oord, Reinout Lempers, Patrick Kerssemakers and Frank Hansen. They
 help the new programming school grow. Winc Academy
 finances the courses for. After them 
retraining can pay the then new programmers back the money if they have a job.

In principle, the academy is open to anyone who is a programmer of 
wants to become a profession, but there is a tough screening. Seriously only
 interested parties can do the process of six weeks of training, for the most part
 remotely, walk through. From the first group of four thousand candidates 
ten have been adopted.

“The first group finished the training in mid-November and two-thirds.
 One of them already has jobs,” says entrepreneur Marijn Pijnenborg. they
 came up with the programming school a year ago with Carla Snepvangers.

“I've started several companies and I've always seen them searching 
but technical staff was quite a task. Being in the Netherlands
 currently twenty thousand vacancies for developers. That is a 
problem, because those people are needed now, and that problem will only be
 but bigger.”

“When you look at the teaching market, you see a lot of barriers
 for those who want to make a different career. With us, you only pay after you
 found a job. Interested parties have no prior education
 necessary and we work independently of location.”

The first course that the school started is the one for 
front end developer. Ultimately, says Pijnenborg, she wants a whole
 be able to offer stack. So also back end programmers and various
 frameworks. Another route that is being explored is giving in
house training and retraining at companies.

Students who complete the course can be appointed to 
partner companies. In addition to a number of smaller companies, these are also
 bol.com and Visma | Raet.

Winc Academy uses existing modules. Winc selects the modules that best meet the needs of the business community.