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Quickstart

Founded 1988 · 394 employees on LinkedIn · 2 known investors

QuickStart operates a cybersecurity workforce platform that connects skills training, hiring, workforce growth, and readiness validation in one system, using simulations and AI-driven assessments to verify talent for cyber roles. It serves organizations, students, individual job seekers, and government agencies and workforce programs.

Investors · 2

Competitors · 4

by search overlap
A Cloud Guru1316 shared keywordsA Cloud Guru is an online learning platform focused on cloud computing skills, offering certification courses, hands-on labs, practice exams, and live cloud sandboxes for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Linux. It serves individual engineers and enterprise teams building cloud fluency, and was acquired by and integrated into Pluralsight in 2021.
Netezza1191 shared keywordsIBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services. The company is also investing heavily in quantum computing and AI-based enterprise offerings, including its Lightwell open-source software security clearinghouse and the Anderon quantum wafer foundry.
Springboard1150 shared keywordsSpringboard runs online, mentor-supported career training programs in fields such as cybersecurity, software engineering, UI/UX design, data analytics, data science, and machine learning, with upcoming certificate programs for allied health roles. Its part-time courses pair self-paced coursework with 1:1 industry mentors, career coaches, and student advisors to help learners transition into new careers.
ArrowPoint1123 shared keywordsCisco provides networking, data center, and security technology for enterprises, including infrastructure to run traditional and AI workloads and tools to keep organizations running against cyberattacks and outages. Its platform connects networking devices and monitors security events across corporate networks.

Companies competing with Quickstart for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

Acquisitions · 1

Early investors' stakes continue via these deals
IronCircle

IronCircle was an AI-powered cybersecurity training and workforce-development platform offering adaptive learning, hands-on labs, and certification for individuals, universities, and enterprises.

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What does Quickstart do?
QuickStart operates a cybersecurity workforce platform that connects skills training, hiring, workforce growth, and readiness validation in one system, using simulations and AI-driven assessments to verify talent for cyber roles. It serves organizations, students, individual job seekers, and government agencies and workforce programs.
Who are Quickstart's investors?
Quickstart's investors include Moneta Ventures, CRV (Charles River Ventures).