MILANO – Pandemic and distance learning give wings to e-learning. The numbers of GoStudent; former startup born in Austria specialized in online school tuition, which foresees a massive strengthening of the staff for 2021 The company aims to grow from 600 current employees to 1000 by the end of the year, spread across twelve locations across Europe including London, Berlin, Madrid, Lyon, Athens, Istanbul and Amsterdam.
Among its expansion lines there is also Italy, where GoStudent has recently opened an office in Milan that already has 40 employees almost exclusively under 30, which the company intends to become more than 70 by the end of the year.
The offers, explains the company in a press release, they are mainly aimed at young professionals, but also at recent graduates and boys and girls in their first job. In detail, the figures required for Italy refer to the commercial and after-sales sector: Account Manager, Customer Success Manager, Customer Care Manager. “In addition to the figures to be included with permanent or fixed-term employment within the Milan team – explains the company -, GoStudent is constantly looking for the best international teachers to integrate within its network which, to date, counts 5,500 tutors and which is expected to reach 10,000 by the end of the year “.
“We have grown by 700% globally over the past year. Our innovative corporate vision played a crucial role, but above all our constant commitment to attracting and nurturing the best talent on the market. To become a successful company, it is people who make the difference. Being able to count on a young, motivated and result-oriented staff is allowing us to progress more and more rapidly towards the realization of our mission: to give life to the global school No. 1 in the world “, he declared. Felix Ohswald, co-founder and CEO of GoStudent. “Focusing on emerging talent has always been at the heart of GoStudent’s strategy. Also in Italy, we have decided to invest in young people and we are firmly convinced that we want to continue on this path which, to date, has proved successful “, commented Ricardo Reinoso, Country Manager Italia.
With over 15,000 registered students, the EdTEch company recently closed a 205 million euro Series C funding round led by DST Global and which was also attended by new international investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Tencent, Dragoneer , in addition to existing shareholders Coatue, Left Lane Capital and DN Capital. Thanks to the new injection of resources, the former startup is now valued at 1.4 billion euros.
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