Linux Academy provides a cloud computing education platform with self-paced courses, hands-on labs, six cloud servers, personal access to expert instructors, and a learning library covering Linux, AWS, Google Cloud, OpenStack, DevOps, Azure, Big Data, and Containers. Cloud Assessments uses artificial intelligence to personalize cloud training by evaluating a person’s current and changing skill set through hands-on Challenges in live environments. The Cloud Assessments offering also includes Quests and Learning Activities and issues badges of completion to prove skills; it can be used by enterprises to test and train IT teams and prospective job candidates. The company plans to use the new funding to expand the Linux Academy content catalog and to grow the Cloud Assessments platform with new training and hiring tools. Linux Academy reports more than 250,000 aspiring and expert engineers have developed new skills on the platform, and customers include Rackspace, the Associated Press, MailChimp, and several universities. The company is led by Founder and CEO Anthony James and is based in Dallas, Texas. Linux Academy is an online training platform and community focused on Linux and cloud technologies, offering self-paced courses, hands-on server labs, and access to expert instructors. The company provides certification-focused content across AWS, Azure, OpenStack, DevOps and Big Data, aiming to help students find or advance careers in high-demand technology areas. Linux Academy says it has the largest community dedicated to Linux and cloud training on the web and reports the highest certification exam pass rate of any cloud training platform. It serves a growing community of tens of thousands of students and emphasizes delivering high value per dollar compared with other online IT training programs. The company is introducing new products in the coming months and intends to use recent financing to support those initiatives. Anthony James is the founder and CEO, and the company operates from Dallas.

Total raised

$9M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Oct 2017