Quero Educação is an educational marketing platform that helps schools capture and maintain their students. Breaking with the usual pattern of Latin American startups looking for investment in the United States, Quero Educação has recently announced an investment in a Lambda School in Silicon Valley.
While the startup is still young, Quero Educação is already profitable, and has previously made investments in three other startups, all in Brazil. Their ambition is to become a large education company in Brazil that tackles problems in education from all sides, but with the same thesis.
The Lambda School model offers free technology courses for students to work on projects in the startup ecosystem. The model came to the Quero Educação team’s attention when Lambda School presented at Y Combinator Demo Day.
Said Quero Educação CEO Bernardo da Pádua in the original article for Startupi:
“Lambda’s business model is unique. We believe that it can be adapted to the Brazilian market in the future.”
Read more in the original article for Startupi.