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General Assembly

Global digital skills training school

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1001+ employees
  • B2C
  • Education
  • Training
  • Learning
  • SaaS
Flatiron District, New York, NY

Company mission

To foster a global community of individuals empowered to pursue the work they love.

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

10% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

General Assembly are building a classroom-to-career pipeline, with the aim of empowering people to pursue work that they love. At the same time, they want to be seen as an innovation in hiring and upskilling and be recognised as helping to diversify the digital workforce.

They offer a long list of courses for in-demand skills such as coding, UX and design, marketing, and product management. The market for these courses has grown substantially (around 10x) since GA launched and large companies like IBM and L'Oréal hire alumni.

Now owned by staffing giant Adecco, GA will have all the resources they need to continue to grow. The test will be making sure they continue to innovate under new ownership.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Work from home opportunities

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Sep 2015

$70m

SERIES D

Mar 2015

$35m

SERIES C

Total funding: $158.7m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Lisa Lewin

(CEO, not founder)

Founded & was CEO of Mindgate Media, a tech company that created curriculums for post-secondary institutions. Prior to General Assembly, at Pearson, they ran the global technology and product team. Earned an MBA from Harvard.

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