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San Francisco, US · Delaware corporation · 8 known investors
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Founders & leadership
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Julien BarbierCo-Founder & CEO2015–2022Julien Barbier co-founded Holberton, a software engineering school that scaled to 32 global campuses before being acquired by ALX, where he led product and growth for Applied AI and Software Engineering programs serving over 1.6M users. Previously, he was the first head of Marketing and Growth at Docker, joining when the company was operating as dotCloud, and prior to that sold an e-commerce business.
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Sylvain KalacheCo-Founder & President2015–2021Sylvain Kalache is a technologist with two decades of experience in engineering, public relations, and developer advocacy. He co-founded Holberton School, a software engineering training program operating in 25+ countries, and previously worked as a Senior SRE at LinkedIn where he co-designed patented infrastructure; he currently leads AI Labs at Rootly developing reliability tools.
Board
Investors · 8
Daphnilisted by DaphniParis · $540K – $6.5Mvia Marie Ekeland · board
How we know: Daphni's portfolio page · board seat on SEC Form D · offering press articles · funding news · techcrunch.com · Not right? Tell us
Partech Ventureslisted by Partech VenturesParis · $200K – $50M
How we know: offering press articles · partechpartners.com · Not right? Tell us
Redpoint eventureslisted by Redpoint eventuresSão Paulovia Manoel Lemos · board
How we know: a partner's Signal profile · board seat on SEC Form D · funding news · Not right? Tell us
AME Cloud VenturesreportedPalo Alto · $1M – $10M
How we know: offering press articles · press coverage · Not right? Tell us
Insight PartnersreportedNew York · $120M – $350M
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Omidyar NetworkreportedSan Francisco
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Reach CapitalreportedSan Francisco · $100K – $12Mvia Shauntel Garvey · board
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Trinity VenturesreportedMenlo Park · $500K – $6Mvia Dan Scholnick · quoted
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Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$33.1M disclosed across 4 of 6 rounds · 2015–2021
- Undisclosed amountSeries BMar 2021Source ↗
▶$20MraisedApr 2021 · 32 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
▶$20MraisedApr 2021 · 32 investors · Other
Rule 506(b)Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
- Julien BarbierExecutive Officer, Director
- Sylvain KalacheDirector
- Eustache BesanconDirector
- Marie EkelandDirector
- Manoel LemosDirector
- Marc VerstaenDirector
- Offering amount
- $20M
- Amount sold
- $20M
- First sale
- Dec 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$8.3MraisedMay 2018 · 17 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
▶$8.3MraisedMay 2018 · 17 investors · Other
Rule 506(b)Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
- Sylvain KalacheExecutive Officer, Director
- Julien BarbierExecutive Officer, Director
- Marie EkelandDirector
- Shauntel PoulsonDirector
- Marc VerstaenDirector
- Offering amount
- $10M
- Amount sold
- $8.3M
- First sale
- Dec 2017
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2015
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$2.8MraisedJul 2017 · 25 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
▶$2.8MraisedJul 2017 · 25 investors · Other
Rule 506(b)Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
- Marc VerstaenDirector
- Julien BarbierExecutive Officer, Director
- Sylvain KalacheExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $2.8M
- Amount sold
- $2.8M
- First sale
- Dec 2016
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2015
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$2MraisedFeb 2017 · 27 investors · OtherRule 506(b)
▶$2MraisedFeb 2017 · 27 investors · Other
Rule 506(b)Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
- Julien BarbierExecutive Officer, Director
- Sylvain KalacheExecutive Officer, Director
- Marc VerstaenDirector
- Offering amount
- $2M
- Amount sold
- $2M
- First sale
- Jun 2015
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2015
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
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In the news
Holberton raises $8M to give everyone access to a first rate Educationtechcrunch.com · Apr 2018Frequently asked questions
- What does Holberton do?
- Purple fund portfolio company.
- Who founded Holberton?
- Holberton was founded by Julien Barbier, Sylvain Kalache.
- Who are Holberton's investors?
- Holberton's investors include Daphni, Partech Ventures, Redpoint eventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Insight Partners, Omidyar Network, Reach Capital, Trinity Ventures.
- How much funding has Holberton raised?
- Holberton has disclosed $33.1M raised across 4 of its 6 known rounds.
- Where is Holberton headquartered?
- Holberton is headquartered in San Francisco, US.