DataCamp Closes $1M Seed Financing

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DataCamp, a Boston, MA-based online platform for learning data science, closed a $1M seed round of financing.Led by Jonathan Cornelissen, co-founder and CEO, DataCamp is an online school for data science which enables professionals to attain the skills needed to extract insight from data.All DataCamp courses are provided through an online interactive learning portal for hands-on experimentation in the browser.Practical, real-world exercises and challenges are presented to the student and personalized feedback is given by the platform that helps them find the right solution.The company, which currently offers a curriculum that includes programming with R, big data manipulation, and data visualization and reporting, has partnerships with large organizations like Microsoft (edX) and IBM (Big Data University) on key big data learning initiatives and professors from academic institutions including Princeton, Duke and University of Washington.

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Amount $1.0M Total raised
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Date July 14, 2015 Announcement date
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Company http://www.datacamp.com Funded company

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EduTech - learning

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Datacamp
$10M to $25M