Educational start-up Vidcode has generated $1.5m in seed funding for a curriculum designed to teach coding skills to teens. The company aims to enhance student engagement by relating programming to popular interests such as snapchat filters, GIFs and memes, encouraging them to create projects drawing on their own videos, photos and audio files. The start-up, founded by Alexandra Diracles, Leandra Tejedor and Melissa Halfon, is backed by Y Combinator.
Educational start-up Vidcode has generated $1.5m in seed funding for a curriculum designed to teach coding skills to teens. The company aims to enhance student engagement by relating programming to popular interests such as snapchat filters, GIFs and memes, encouraging them to create projects drawing on their own videos, photos and audio files. The start-up, founded by Leandra Tejedor, Alexandra Diracles and Melissa Halfon, is backed by Y Combinator.