Thinkful is an online interactive platform that offers a variety of online
coding bootcamps in several areas including
web development
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,
mobile development, and
design
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.
History
Bloc was founded in February 2012 by Roshan Choxi and Dave Paola. They met at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Uni ...
in 2008, before moving to
San Francisco
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where the company is currently headquartered. Subsequently, Paola and Choxi began tutoring students over Skype in 2012, then later introduced Bloc at the Launch Festival in San Francisco. The company raised $250,000 in
seed funding
Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding or seed capital, is a form of securities offering in which an investor invests capital in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company. The term ''seed'' ...
in May 2012, another $2 million in December 2013, and $6 million in
Series A
A series A round (also known as series A financing or series A investment) is the name typically given to a company's first significant round of venture capital financing. The name refers to the class of preferred stock sold to investors in exchan ...
funding in November 2014.
In April 2018, Bloc was acquired by online bootcamp Thinkful for an undisclosed sum. Officials at Thinkful said Bloc was not profitable and "almost breaking even" at the time the deal closed.
Scholarships
Bloc offers two scholarships: the
New Relic Diversity Scholarship in Software Development and Design, and the Veterans Scholarship in Software Development and Design. Both scholarships are offered to U.S. military veterans, and the New Relic Diversity Scholarship is offered to minorities.
See also
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Coursera
Coursera Inc. () is a U.S.-based massive open online course provider founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online cour ...
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The Data Incubator
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Codecademy
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy is an American non-profit educational organization created in 2008 by Sal Khan. Its goal is creating a set of online tools that help educate students. The organization produces short lessons in the form of videos. Its website also i ...
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Lynda.com
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App Academy
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Chegg
Chegg, Inc., is an American education technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services.
The company was launched in 20 ...
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