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Scrimba is a coding course platform with over 120K monthly active students. It's based on a new video format that makes the screencasts fully interactive for students, and easier to create for teachers.

Scrimba is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2020 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: We turn people into hireable devs for 1% of the price of code…. The founders listed are Per Harald Borgen (Founder), Sindre Aarsaether (Founder), Frode Jensen (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, August 22, 2020).

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Scrimba

New accelerator entry · 2020-08-22 · the record

Summer 2020
batch
6
people
Early
stage
Norway
region
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BatchSummer 2020
Announced2020-08-22
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size6
IndustryEducation
Sub-industryEducation
SectorsEducation, eLearning
RegionsNorway, Europe, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedOslo, Oslo, Norway
HiringNo
Sitehttps://scrimba.com
Founded2017
YC group partnerAaron Epstein

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Scrimba is a coding course platform with over 120K monthly active students. It's based on a new video format that makes the screencasts fully interactive for students, and easier to create for teachers. Our vision is to create a coding school that has the quality of Stanford but the price of a gym membership.

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