The Wagon turns into a locomotive. The French school of code announces this Wednesday, June 29, 2022 to buy Emil, a young shoot specializing in online Data science courses launched two years earlier by Thomas Bouttefort and Paul Mochkovitch. These two entrepreneurs also climb into the Wagon by becoming vice-presidents.
Emil’s 100% online offer is considered complementary to that of Le Wagon (two training courses of 9 or 24 weeks in web development and data science). With this acquisition, the first for Le Wagon, which is approaching its tenth anniversary, the objective is to offer, in addition to these face-to-face bootcamps, more flexible ways of learning (e-learning).
Their target: both the curious, the converted aspirants or the boxes who want to raise their employees in skills. On the occasion of this takeover, we trace in eight figures the history of the Wagon, this French start-up that drives learning to code around the world .
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The story of a sibling. In 2013, Romain Paillard and his younger brother Boris wanted to transpose the Californian code training followed by one of their friends to France. “In just nine weeks of training, he was hired right away for a higher salary than mine…following eight years of study, says Romain Paillard, a criminal lawyer by training, now 38 years old. And then it corresponded to a very concrete need for dummies like me who wanted to learn. »
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Nearly ten years later, Le Wagon employs 174 people, 90% of them on permanent contracts (excluding Emil’s workforce). At their side, more than 1,350 freelance computer science teachers. Most of the time, they also hold developer jobs in companies in the French ecosystem. With the takeover of Emil, around thirty independent trainers will be added to the troops. Founded only in 2020 and the team being in full remote, the logistics of the transfer might not be more simplified. The added value of this takeover? The anonymized datasets on which Emil’s students work come from real companies, such as Ornikar for example.
Le Wagon by buying Emil does not turn away from the ‘immersive training’ initially offered (i.e. in physics within a promo, nothing to do with the metaverse or any other network) but will extend its range of courses offered .The cart
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This is the number of start-ups created by Le Wagon alumni, a hundred of which alone have raised nearly 850 million euros internationally. Among them : Farmitoo , Matera , Skello …
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It is in millions of euros the sum raised by Le Wagon during its one and only fundraising in the spring of 2020. The investor fund at the time was the Cathay Capital group. To date, no information has been sent to us concerning a potential future fundraising and no price has been communicated concerning the acquisition of Emil. Even if the Paillard brothers remain discreet regarding the figures, according to The echoes their turnover last year was estimated at 20 million euros.
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At Le Wagon, the average age of students is 29 and the median age 32. With the takeover of Emil, this average should increase since his less intensive and more independent training (only two evenings a week with a teacher, and this for 8 weeks) makes it possible to reach a wider audience.
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Le Wagon alumni currently represent a community of 15,000 people. Each year, the start-up launches two promotions all over the world. In Paris, where they receive the most requests, the classes are made up of around forty students. Promos in regions are twice as small.
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This is the average price in euros of a bootcamp at Le Wagon (either 9 intensive weeks in bootcamp or 24 weeks part-time) once morest logically 1,500 euros for training provided by Emil, more than four times less. This new module will be available from this summer. In 2023, the start-up also announces the release of a new training course in No code more and more in demand in young shoots like large companies.
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Bali, Cape Town, Casablanca, Madrid, Marseille, Mauritius, São Paulo, Tel Aviv, Zurich… Le Wagon training courses are available in 45 cities, in 25 different countries, on five continents. By 2023, the school will open three other branches in West Africa (Senegal, Nigeria).
