(Ecofin Agency) – Edtech Manara has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to strengthen its software engineering training platform, targeting students from North Africa and the Middle East (Mena zone).
The start-up plans to use this funding to grow from 60 to 6,000 trained engineers each year, and also to launch a self-service product for interview practice, networking and mentoring, targeting software engineers around the world. entire. The financing round was mobilized from a group of investors and business angels.
“We’ve had more appetite from investors than we could handle, signaling growing Silicon Valley interest in platforms that facilitate online and offline communities, and high-skilled access solutions from emerging markets.” , said Iliana Montauk (pictured), co-founder and chief executive of Manara.