Epicode merges with Strive School and raises €10 million funding from angel investors and family offices from Italy.

Epicode School, a Rome, Italy-based education startup providing coding courses on demand, announced completing a €10 million ($11M) funding round.

The money was raised from investors led by Matteo de Brabant (founder of Jakala), Lorenzo Lamberti Sagliano (tech investor) and joined by a group of family offices, tech entrepreneurs and investors such as Enrico Drago (family office), Valerio Camerano (Algebris), Fabio Cannavale (Lastminute.com), Federico Leproux (Teamsystem), Niccolò Colussi, Matteo Lunelli (Cantine Ferrari and Altagamma), Gian Andrea Strekelj (founder of Venere.com), and Paolo Barberis (Nana Bianca).

The proceeds will be used to finance an operational merger with the Berlin-based Strive School.

Epicode, founded in 2020 by Claudio Vaccaro, CEO Ivan Ranza and Marco Rosci, developed an online coding educational courses operation that offers professional training and coaching services. It offers a new training model and six-month courses that are mastery-based, structured and personalised. All courses are online and come with a live, interactive component to maximise student engagement. The company says it has over 1,000 students trained in 2021 and a growing network of over 600 hiring partner companies (including Fortune 500 and top tech companies such as EY, Deloitte, Accenture, Jakala, Capgemini, Almaviva, Kpmg, Cisco, Palo Alto Network, Engineering, Reply, Almaviva, and more).

Epicode previously raised €1 million in angel funding in 2021.