VILLAGE CAPITAL, which runs peer-selected startup competitions across the globe, has selected the two winners for its latest education challenge: solving the skills and hiring gap in the U.S. The two winners, each of which will get a $75,000 investment from Village Capital, are:
- Qualified, a San Francisco-based developer of an online platform that aims to help companies evaluate and assess a software engineering candidate’s technical proficiency
- Upswing, an Austin-based startup that brings data science to a college’s support and advisory services to boost student retention and cut dropout rates.
Learn more details about the two winners and the education competition here in Village Capital’s blog post.
