BloomTech Blog

Graduates will be prepared with the skills necessary to land an entry-level software engineering role at companies of all sizes.

In dedication to transparency and accountability, we share our progress toward our goal of empowering people, regardless of their circumstance or background, to begin rewarding careers in technology.

Today, we release our 2021 Diversity Report. We are a young company, and we are dedicated to transparency as we grow in our DEI journey. We are proud of both our progress and our ongoing initiatives to improve diversity, equity and inclusion for both our staff and learners.

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Blockstack to open up a new way for our students to earn cash for their first Blockstack app while they finish their education.

Today we’re announcing that BloomTech has raised $74 million in a Series C funding round led by Gigafund. This new financing will support our continued mission to unlock student potential, regardless of circumstance.

In order to achieve this important milestone, we are introducing the Retail Installment Contract (RIC) as a tuition financing option for incoming students in California. Unfortunately, we will not be able to offer ISAs to new students in CA for the foreseeable future.

We're excited to release our H2 2019 student outcomes. As part of our commitment to data transparency, we are proud to be working with The MFA Companies, an accounting, audit, and advisory firm, who performed an examination of our data.

This report is the first in a new process we're building to improve transparency, consistency, and accountability around outcomes reporting at BloomTech. We plan to release this report every six months, and we hope to continuously improve it, based on the feedback we receive. Until then, thank you for joining us on this journey.

To reaffirm our commitment to the mental wellness of our learners, BloomTech is expanding our mental health support services offered to all staff and learners beginning September 28, 2021 through a renewal of our partnership with Modern Health.

Our one and only mission at BloomTech unlocking the potential of everyone, regardless of circumstance, and that work is paying off for our students. And we’re just getting started.

Last week the nation witnessed another innocent Black man murdered at the hands of the police. I need you to hear that we at BloomTech, and I specifically, strongly believe that Black Lives Matter.

’m reaching out personally because it’s important to me that I reiterate that we’re committed to supporting you through this difficult time. I know the past few weeks have felt strange and uncertain for all of us, including myself.

Earlier this week, we learned our latest submission to the BPPE was not accepted. This is the latest step in a long process, and so while it’s not the decision we hoped for or expected, we’re committed to working directly with BPPE to solve the issues they raised

Today, we are leaning into our commitment to transparency to help UX students understand what happened with our User Experience Design (UX) program and where the program stands today.

Today we're announcing a series of upcoming curriculum changes at BloomTech, including additional leadership opportunities for students, more intentional instruction, better career prep, and a more efficient and flexible curriculum.

Beginning in January, we want to pair every group of students with a pre-specced community project. You bring the project, our students will build it completely free.

We've added a full software engineering apprenticeship into the BloomTech curriculum. By graduation, every student will have built a real, production-ready app on a real team.

We're changing how we approach mental health at BloomTech because I know that we only succeed when all of us, students and staff, are at our best, physically, emotionally, and mentally

A sustainable, incentive-aligned way to make ISAs work long-term.

BloomTech to Continue to Offer Incentive-Aligned Tuition to Californians under Agreement with new Department of Financial Protection & Innovation

Our goal from day one has been to create an education model where the incentives of the school and student are aligned. In addition to recent curriculum and job search initiatives, we remain committed to easing the financial burden our students face.

To all of you balancing your own version of chicken nugget dinners, tea parties, and hours of Zoom calls, here are three ways I make my career and parenthood work together.

Today we are releasing our first BloomTech Diversity Report. The purpose of this report is to establish a baseline understanding about our students and staff in order to start a dialogue about how we can better support diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts at BloomTech.

Today we're announcing the BloomTech Mentor program, the best way to get involved with BloomTech by mentoring and spending time with students in your local area.

This week we're excited to announce some new changes to bring the same relentless focus on student outcomes to our part-time programs.

As a father of two, this time of year has me thinking how as parents, we need to update the advice we give our children when it comes to the choices they have for their futures.

BloomTech, a computer science academy that trains students of all educational and financial backgrounds to become software engineers at no upfront cost, today announced $14 million in Series A funding.

On Friday, September 27, one of our incredible student mentors hosted a walk-through of the DoorDash headquarters in San Francisco, California, for a small group of BloomTech students.

There is no upfront tuition cost to our students and admission to our school isn’t dependent upon past academic, employment or financial history - our focus is on what a student could be capable of learning. And their willingness to do so.

Through this new partnership with The Mom Project, BloomTech is committed to helping #ChampionMoms reach their full potential and find their next professional opportunity. I hope you join us.

Today we’re announcing that we’ve signed an estimated $20 million agreement with the Long-term Education Investment Fund (Leif) and its affiliated Student Advantage Fund.

This year we made a big change to ensure that every BloomTech alum has the best chance of landing their dream job – we integrated the student job search into the new 9-month BloomTech curriculum.

Today I’m excited to share that Molly Graham is joining the BloomTech team as our first ever Chief Operating Officer. This is an exciting moment for the company, the team and our students.

In our first Co-ops spotlight, we're sharing the story of Miracle Messages, an organization that reunifies individuals experiencing homelessness with their loved ones by recording and posting video messages on social media.

BloomTech students in Lagos had the opportunity to meet with the Engineering and Product teams at Paystack on January 25, 2020.

With help from BloomTech Co-op and Social Impact Manager Jessica Wilkinson, BloomTech partnered with Sauti East Africa to develop four unique projects to improve usability and reach of the platform, including incorporating new tools and technologies.

New Chief Technology Officer, Chief Business Officer, and General Counsel join BloomTech to bolster student success, partnerships, and company momentum.

This round of funding allows us to cover the cost of a world-class education for thousands of individuals who are looking for new opportunities, like our 20 new BloomTech graduates.

This Veteran’s Day, we’re rolling out an all-new program to help veterans learn in-demand skills like coding, data science, mobile development.

Today, I'll share why we started BloomTech – we needed to replace the current model of education with something that doesn’t leave people broke for the rest of their lives if it doesn’t work out.

Student expectations of BloomTech continually go up, as they should. It’s our job as a school to continually live up to and exceed those expectations. We look forward to always striving to raise the bar.

We are thrilled to announce that Leif has allocated up to $50 million in financing capacity to BloomTech to make the education students need to transform their careers available at no cost until they are making more than $50,000/year.