This is your chance to own a part of HyperionDev

In 2020, we not only reached profitability but also raised the majority of additional financing from strategic funders so we can double down on what we do best: bringing accessible, essential tech skills to as many people as possible. The COVID pandemic resulted in a massive spike in demand for our services as more of our customers turned to online learning in the wake of campus closures, but also turned to upskilling in tech skills as a way to protect their careers.

We’ve decided to open up a limited portion of our funding round to our students and supporters to be a part of our journey, and also support the journey of who can’t afford to study with HyperionDev themselves - during this crowdfund, we’ll be giving back by awarding full scholarships to prospective HyperionDev students.

As 2020 draws to a close, we’ve seen strong growth in all key metrics - we’ve grown revenue over 600% since our last fundraise, active learners 289%, and taken customer Net Promoter Score up to an industry-leading 58. Our team itself has more than tripled in size yet we’ve continued to ensure our model is sustainable, generating millions of dollars in revenue in a way we’ve proven is sustainable.

These results show we’ve found product-market fit and been able to retain quality in the areas that matter as we scale, and that we’ve been able to smartly deploy the backing of supporters like Facebook & Google in achieving the results we have today.

With your investment, you will claim your part of an equity stake in HyperionDev, which carries with it relevant tax credits and rebates, such as the Enterprise Investment Scheme (if you’re based in the UK).

More importantly - you’ll get to be a part of our journey and be a part of what the new face of education looks like, as we double down on expanding into new markets and building new technology that makes tech education more accessible and more impactful.

The edtech market is growing massively, with a global market size nearing $404billion by 2025 (Holon IQ), and as a company that has previously been approached by multi-billion dollar companies for acquisition in the last 12 months, we believe we have the results, skills, model and technology to return not just good financial returns to our investors, but do good at the same time.

We’re putting our money where our mouth is - by investing in our crowdfunding round, you get to directly changing the lives of people who want a coding education, but can’t afford it. To this end, we will be providing up to R3.5 million worth of coding scholarships for deserving students - find out more here.

It couldn’t be easier. Simply click here to go to Crowdcube, where you can create your account and make your investment.

The human touch. Bots cannot teach people how to code - which is why we exclusively use human mentors and expert code review services to improve graduation rates, prevent student drop-out, and create developers who understand why they write code a certain way, rather than copy forums and pre-prepared bot answers. In fact, our backbone of expert code review services is so good that it’s used across the world by dozens of start-ups and tech education organisations to teach and detect good code.

We started out as a small community of university students trying to help our peers learn coding to pass their Computer Science degrees at universities in Africa and the UK. Today, we train more developers in a year than nearly all of these original Computer Science departments combined.

In this journey, we’ve received backing from Facebook (as winners of the Internet.org Grand Prize as one of the most socially impactful tech startups operating in Africa, and as a startup incubated by Facebook’s London Lab programme), Google (as recipients of a CS4HS and Community of Practice of coding educators award), the celebrity DJ Black Coffee, in-kind contributions by the University of Cambridge’s Social Enterprise incubator and the City of London’s Co Investment Fund, and a slew of private investors and venture capitalists.

We aim to list our shares on a secondary market enabled by crowdfunding, or via trade sale or IPO. This isn’t a distant reality for us - in the last 12 months we have been approached by multi-billion dollar companies looking to acquire our business.