Microverse

Company Overview

Microverse is an online school for remote software developers. The company offers a full-time technical curriculum that helps students around the world develop their technical skills, build projects, and improve the soft skills they need to excel in remote teams.

Microverse students are from countries around the world. At Microverse, you learn collaboratively with a diverse, driven community and connect to life-changing opportunities.

Microverse's Impact

“To be successful I knew I had to develop skills in planning, discipline, and productivity. Microverse provided the structure so I could grow in these areas, which prepared me for working in the software industry." Alex S, Full-Stack Developer at Doctolib, Ex-Student. 🇩🇪 Germany

“For me, it was a no-brainer. I wanted to try Microverse because while the alternatives would give you a tutorial or a course, you have to do it alone, but with this, I had the accountability." Kevin M, Senior Software Developer at Microsoft, Ex-Student 🇰🇪 Kenya

"My life has changed 100% since Microverse. My current salary is 5.6 times more per year than my previous salary” Gabriela C, Frontend Developer at Upstart 13, Ex-Student 🇲🇽 Mexico

Microverse's Core Mission and Impacts

Their mission is to provide students who don’t typically have access to such education the ability to learn high value skills to better themselves and increase their chances of securing a job.

Microverse's Current Investors

Alumni have been hired by companies such as Microsoft, Huawei, HSBC, IBM, Infosys, Deloitte, Stanford Health Care any many others.

Investors include, General Catalyst, Northzone, All Iron Ventures, Rubio Impact Ventures, True Equity and 10 more.

Microverse's Growth Strategy

Ariel said that he expects the school size to triple over the next 18 months. At the moment, the platform has over 1,000 full-time students from 118 countries. About 75% of the population is made up of learners from Africa and South America. He also noted that Microverse now receives an average of 10,000 new applications from about 200 countries each month.

“ It doesn’t make sense that the place you’re born determines your opportunities in life. Microverse’s mission is to provide the world’s untapped talent with a high-quality education and to match companies in desperate need of digital talent with them. This investment comes at a pivotal moment, where demand from potential students to learn to code and from companies looking for global talent has never been higher.” CEO of Microverse.

How is Microverse driving innovation?

At Microverse, we’re focused on making high-quality education accessible so that people globally can connect with better opportunities in life. This innovative approach to education provides you with accountability and a large, global network of support. That’s why, at Microverse, you learn through a unique approach — by collaborating with peers worldwide, just as you would with colleagues of a distributed team in a real company.

In addition, it helps you learn remote workflows and acquire the collaboration and communication skills necessary to join a global company.