Alex Horner '17, founder of Burlington Code Academy, has secured $10 million in growth financing to expand access to software engineering education.
Please see this article from Yahoo! Finance for more details: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/burlington-code-academy-closes-10mm-130400544.html
Alex was a Business Administration major with a concentration in marketing. While he attended IC, he and Sethavatey Limsreng ’16 won the third annual Park Tank event for their device, StopPack, a chemical-free tool for people to quit smoking.
Alex has since gone on to found the Burlington Code Academy, based in Burlington, VT.
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