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Codemotion

34 Via Giovanni Giolitti, Rome, Latium, 00185, Italy

Overview

Codemotion operates a multichannel platform that connects IT professionals, developers and companies, enabling the community to share tech trends and best practices. The platform provides learning content and developer-focused activities including in-depth tech articles, coding challenges, webinars, networking events, hackathons and meetups. It also helps companies identify resources for open innovation and digital transformation projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Big Data. The company reports the platform currently features 500,000 developers, 200 tech communities and over 300 startups and established companies across Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany, and has a team of over 50 people. Codemotion was co-founded in 2013 by Chiara Russo and Mara Marzocchi and is based in Rome, Italy. The company closed a €6M second funding round to support global consolidation of its platform. Codemotion provides a platform that connects IT professionals, tech communities and companies to support developer career advancement and enable corporate marketing, hiring and open innovation activities. Founded in 2013 by Chiara Russo and Mara Marzocchi and based in Rome, Italy, the company operates a community of 570,000 software developers and a network of about 300 corporate partners including Cisco, IBM, Google, Microsoft, Intel and Oracle. Codemotion has over 40 employees across four countries: Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany. The company raised €2.5M in funding and intends to use the proceeds to accelerate development of the platform and expand abroad. Its platform aims to help developers advance their personal careers while allowing companies to involve them in various talent and innovation initiatives. Codemotion is an innovation hub based in Rome, Italy that provides technical training, developer conferences, kids' technology education (Codemotion Kids!) and hackathons. It was founded in 2013 by Chiara Russo and Mara Marzocchi. The company organizes technical conferences across seven countries, with over 2,000 IT professionals attending the main events. Over the past three years it has managed more than 35 hackathons and its training catalog includes over 50 courses. Codemotion plans to use the newly raised €1.5M to strengthen its developer community, consolidate international growth and broaden its offering. Gianluca Dettori of Barcamper Ventures will join Codemotion’s board as part of the funding round.

Total raised
$11M
Funding rounds
3
Latest round
Equity
Latest activity
Apr 2020

Industries

  • Business Development
  • Consulting
  • Education
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Apr 2020

    $7M

  2. Equity

    Jun 2019

    $3M

  3. Equity

    Jun 2017

    $2M

Team

  • Chiara Russo

    CEO & Co-Founder

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  • Mara Marzocchi

    Co-Founder, Chief Content Officer & Dev Advisor

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  • Andrea Pompili

    Program Commitee Member

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  • Marta Arroyo

    Sales and Support

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