Forming new tech-leads
Company
Driven
Founders
Paulo Monteiro, Michel Nigri, Pedro Barros
Site
Sector
Education
Business Model
Transactional
Investment Year
2021
Founding Date
2020
Headquarters
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo - Brazil
Portfolio
Iporanga Early Stage II
Status
active
General Partner
Leonardo Teixeira
Co-investors
OneVC, FundersClub, 3G Radar, Angels
Michel, Pedro and Paulo
About
Despite loving education and having studied at one of the best engineering schools in Brazil, Driven founders hated the college experience. They always had a motivation to one day create the college they wanted to go to.
They started with Responde Aí, a study platform for university students. In 6 years they took the platform to 25,000 students, with R$10M in revenue, profitable and doubling every year.
Now they created Driven, a training school for technology. The model starts focused on Responde Aí base students, who have strong analytical skills and already trust the brand.
Paulo, Michel and Pedro want Driven to be the best school for “Digital Engineers” (data scientists, developers, product managers, etc) in Latin America.
Paulo is a Production Engineer at UFRJ and lived for 2 years in France and China. Michel also owns a master degree in Production Engineer at UFRJ and has 12 years of experience as an educator and teacher.
Pedro has 15 years of programming experience and over 2,000 hours of developer training.