E-learning platform Springboard has raised series A funding of $9.5 million led by Costanoa Ventures, with participation by Learn Capital and Jyoti Bansal, the founder of AppDynamics, as well as existing investors Blue Fog Capital, Rocketship.vc, and Moneta Ventures. Mark Selcow, Venture Partner at Costanoa Ventures will be joining Springboard's board. San Francisco and Bangalore based company was founded in 2013 by Parul Gupta and Gautam Tambay. The company is backed by investors like Allen Blue, co-founder of LinkedIn; Naveen Tewari, founder & CEO of InMobi, Facebook's former VP-Product Greg Badros- to name a few. The company provides courses focused on upskilling like data science, analytics, security, UX design etc. The company claims to have educated about 7,000 students in its three-to-six months courses in data science, UX design, and business analytics and has students and alumni in nearly 80 countries. The company has…
