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Two Young Black Entrepreneurs Started An EdTech School To Help Underserved Groups
Two Young Black Entrepreneurs Started An EdTech School To Help Underserved Groups Pivot Into Fast-Growing, Well-Paying Tech Jobs
A tornado knocking out your building, followed by the Covid-19 outbreak is not a good way to start a business. Despite some early challenges, Joshua Mundy and Quawn Clark founded Pivot Technology School, a fast-growing Tennessee-based EdTech startup. Isaac Y. Addae, an assistant professor at Tennessee State University, joined the duo as Chief Strategy Officer.
The tech training school is a “Black-owned, fully remote technology education hub that supports minorities interested in technology careers.” Its mission is to “empower minority students with in-demand technical skills, in an industry that historically lacks racial diversity, and build a 100 million dollar business.” The company trains “minorities to get into tech roles and are working with corporate partners to upskill their talent.”
"There are less than 3% of minorities that have tech careers and we want to change that paradigm and create pipelines of highly trained talent to these organizations. We want to expose as many adults as possible to coding and data analytics,” said Mundy.
Clark said about the team’s ambitious goals, "Our mission is to create and grow incentive-aligned avenues that empower a highly diverse demographic to break into the technology industry.”
Based in Nashville, it strives to empower an underserved, diverse demographic by providing industry-leading training in high-demand technology skills. Pivot offers cybersecurity, data analytics, web development, full-stack engineering and other coursework, in a 20-week, virtual, boot-camp-style program.
The tech-teaching company has a unique business plan. The EdTech startup seeks out corporate partners that want and need to upskill their current workforce to gain the knowledge and tools to succeed in this new era of rapid change and innovation. The business taps into the Great Resignation trend and war-for-talent, tight job market, as empathetic employers recognize they need to continually train their employees and offer them the ability to grow within the organization; otherwise, they’ll lose their best and brightest talent.
Corporations that are interested in upskilling and retraining employees and offer diversity and inclusion in the workplace turn to Pivot. The school has partnerships with Shipt, a division of Target, and Amazon. Shipt sponsored around 32 individuals who participated in a 20-week program, where they will learn core competencies—ranging from backend development to data analytics.
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Two Young Black Entrepreneurs Started An EdTech School To Help Underserved Groups Pivot Into Fast-Growing, Well-Paying Tech Jobs
A tornado knocking out your building, followed by the Covid-19 outbreak is not a good way to start a business. Despite some early challenges, Joshua Mundy and Quawn Clark founded Pivot Technology School, a fast-growing Tennessee-based EdTech startup. Isaac Y. Addae, an assistant professor at Tennessee State University, joined the duo as Chief Strategy Officer.
The tech training school is a “Black-owned, fully remote technology education hub that supports minorities interested in technology careers.” Its mission is to “empower minority students with in-demand technical skills, in an industry that historically lacks racial diversity, and build a 100 million dollar business.” The company trains “minorities to get into tech roles and are working with corporate partners to upskill their talent.”
"There are less than 3% of minorities that have tech careers and we want to change that paradigm and create pipelines of highly trained talent to these organizations. We want to expose as many adults as possible to coding and data analytics,” said Mundy.
Clark said about the team’s ambitious goals, "Our mission is to create and grow incentive-aligned avenues that empower a highly diverse demographic to break into the technology industry.”
Based in Nashville, it strives to empower an underserved, diverse demographic by providing industry-leading training in high-demand technology skills. Pivot offers cybersecurity, data analytics, web development, full-stack engineering and other coursework, in a 20-week, virtual, boot-camp-style program.
The tech-teaching company has a unique business plan. The EdTech startup seeks out corporate partners that want and need to upskill their current workforce to gain the knowledge and tools to succeed in this new era of rapid change and innovation. The business taps into the Great Resignation trend and war-for-talent, tight job market, as empathetic employers recognize they need to continually train their employees and offer them the ability to grow within the organization; otherwise, they’ll lose their best and brightest talent.
Corporations that are interested in upskilling and retraining employees and offer diversity and inclusion in the workplace turn to Pivot. The school has partnerships with Shipt, a division of Target, and Amazon. Shipt sponsored around 32 individuals who participated in a 20-week program, where they will learn core competencies—ranging from backend development to data analytics.