Carrick Capital To Acquire Flatiron School
Technical Bootcamp To Continue Focus on Substantial Reskilling and Upskilling Labor Market Opportunity
Carrick Capital Partners (“Carrick”), an investment firm focused on software and software-enabled businesses, announced that it is acquiring Flatiron School, one of the country’s leading technical bootcamps from WeWork. Flatiron School graduates its students with highly in-demand skills in software engineering, data science, UX/UI design, and cybersecurity. Flatiron School Co-Founder Adam Enbar will remain CEO of the company. As part of the transaction, Flatiron School will also continue to operate its headquarters and a majority of its campus programs out of existing locations as a WeWork member.
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“Flatiron School is a great representation of Carrick’s view about the future of learning, the future of work, and the opportunities that exist for innovative companies to help enable those transformations. We are impressed by Adam, Flatiron School’s management team, and the company’s alternative education model that provides students with the 21st century skills necessary to succeed in the modern technology economy,” explained Carrick’s Co-Founder and Managing Director Jim Madden.
“We started Flatiron School with one simple idea, that a ‘one size fits all’ approach to education doesn’t work. Over the years, we’ve stayed true to our mission of helping people pursue a better life through education and supporting our students through outcomes, access, and scale. WeWork has been an incredible partner to us on this journey, supporting our growth as we launched new disciplines and campuses, and served thousands of active students between our online and campus programs. We look forward to taking on this new chapter with Carrick, which believes in our founding mission and has the expertise and commitment to help us maximize our impact, while remaining part of the WeWork community as a member,” explained Flatiron CEO Adam Enbar.
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“The available pool of tech talent doesn’t meet the demands of our modern economy. By teaching highly in-demand tech skills, Flatiron School helps deliver much needed talent to the marketplace and allows many additional people to participate in the professional benefits of our digital economy. We couldn’t imagine a better time to invest in a company focused on training people for rewarding jobs in such a high demand industry,” added Madden.
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