Assembler: The new way to learn coding from Barcelona.

There is a new world trend about learning how to code without going to university, starting years ago with boot camps, where the students learn to code in an intensive program developing real projects, and this new model that Assembler offers has two main features:

The first one is that there aren’t teachers, the students learn by doing projects and their main source of knowledge is the internet and their peers as if they are working in a company. These programs, with no teachers, where the most important thing is to learn together with your colleagues, developing real-world projects, have demonstrated that they are a more efficient way to learn to code.

The second one is that there isn’t any tuition, the students will only pay a cut of their wages, ISA (Income Share Agreement), when they get a job. This new paradigm in the way to pay education allows the aligning of the schools’ incentives with the student’s incentives.

The references are the Lambda School from San Francisco, the most important tech hub in the USA, with a huge demand for developers, and Barcelona is the biggest tech hub in the south of Europe, where the demand for developers is increasing very quickly and there is not enough supply to meet it. For this reason, Barcelona is a great place to launch this project.

The startup was launched by two seasoned entrepreneurs that know very well the tech ecosystem in Barcelona. Cristian Fondevila Co-Founder at Traqui
and former head of operations in Fotawa, and Kasia Adamowicz Co-founder in Glamourum and Manager at Seedrocket, and backed by Jesus Monleon, one of the most well-known entrepreneurs and investors in Spain. Their network allows them to start partnership deals with some of the best startups in Barcelona, such as Holaluz, Badi, Trovit, Marfeel, Ulabox, etc

In their first pre-seed financial round, they are supported by Luis Martin Cabiedes and many Business Angels that are well connected with the local tech ecosystem.