Gautam Tambay is the Co-Founder & CEO of Springboard, a recent (2015) ed tech start up that has made some serious noise in the world of online education. At Springboard prospectives students have the opportunity to pursue an “in-demand”, mentor based approach to online education in a variety of of 21st centuries careers (cybersecurity, digital marketing, and business and design ) where students:
- are paired with an industry expert mentor
- be exposed to curriculum curated by industry experts
- learn through real life projects
- are (in some cases) guaranteed a job or tuition is refunded!
Not only does Springboard offer its students online educational courses that are paired with weekly, face to face expert mentorship, Springboard has also found a niche market in the world of online education where students have the opportunity to take courses to piece together an educational profile that suits their interest (as opposed to taking expensive and time consuming entire degree programs). See below for a nice comparison chart:
Gautam Tambay and co founder Parul Gupta raised $1.7 million in seed round, recently has raised just shy of $10 million and is backed and endorsed by some big investors including the CEO of Linkdin. To date, Springboard has graduated over 5000 students, has over 250 mentors and is educating students in nearly 80 countries. Students who have graduated Springboard courses and “career tracks” have gone on to work at major companies such as Google, Samsung, Visa, Amazon, McAffee, and AirBnB to name a few.
Tambay is a reputable CEO that holds a bachelors degree in mechanical engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and and MBA in entrepreneurial management, operations and information management from the University of Pennsylvania. To date, he has been involved in the ed tech industry previously working at InMobi where he was the director of business and corporate development. It was here that he honed ed tech insights, skills, and built the business relationships to capitalize on an online ed tech market that is now booming.
Below is a recent (this year) promotional video created by Tambay and Gupta marketing their new UX Career Track where they guarantee prospectives students a job in that industry with a money back guarantee.
And finally a student testimonial:
