TechCrunch explained in 2018 that VC fund Neo “identifies talented young engineers, brings them into a community of tech veterans, and invests in the companies they start or join.”
Longtime Slashdot reader theodp points out that Neo also benefits from the educational nonprofit Code.org.
Eleven years ago, Neo founder and CEO Ali Partovi publicly launched the nonprofit Code.org with his twin brother Hadi (Code.org CEO and Neo investor) (with support and advice from major technology companies). ). With support from prominent technology giants and their companies, Code.org has brought coding into K-12 classrooms (NYT, Alternative) and now has “591,636 teachers enrolled in Code Studio's introductory course. 19,177,297 students will register to teach and contribute to building a pipeline of “university students who excel in CS.” Neo is leveraging this pipeline, and Neo investors including Code.org boosters Bill Gates, Satya Nadella, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Wilke, and Sheryl are connected to Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, and Uber. seems to be betting on the success of Sandberg, Eric Schmidt.
“I love meeting more and more @Neo founders and Neo Scholar candidates who learned to code at Code.org,” said Neo CEO Ali Partovi. tweeted last summer.
In November, Partovi welcomed “32 outstanding CS students'' as Neo Scholars, who were selected from over 1,000 applicants. Neo Scholars is a “year-long program that includes events, travel, mentorship, and long-term membership in the community.”