Guwahati, Feb 16 () Learning solutions providerCrio.Do, which raised USD 1 million in seed funding led byFlipkart co-founder Binny Bansal, on Sunday said it has rolledout a free product development programme for engineeringstudents in the country.
The programme called 'Crio Launch' is a completelyfree and app-based solution that promises to offer realproduct development experience to students and empowers themto learn relevant technical skills.
"Crio Launch focuses on software engineeringfoundations. Students learn foundational concepts by actuallyapplying them in building real software products," Crio.Doco-founder Rathinamurthy R told .
The participants are handpicked for the programme,which was launched last month, based on a multi-stageselection process and each stage evaluates a student'sappetite to learn and grow, he added.
"The programme has been launched recently and hasalready garnered interest from over 500 campuses across thecountry, making it one of the largest experiential learningprogrammes for product development in India," Rathinamurthysaid.
Earlier this year, the company raised USD 1 million(Rs 7.12 crore) in seed funding led by Bansal, Flipkart ex-CTORavi G, Flipkart ex-CPO Mekin Maheshwari and Udaan foundersAmod Malviya, Sujeet Kumar and Vaibhav Gupta.
Founded in 2018, Crio.Do at present is working closelywith student bodies on over 100 campuses across the countryand running multiple community learning initiatives on itsplatform for students in those campuses.
Rathinamurthy said that every industry is gettingdisrupted by technology and software product developers are atthe forefront of this change.
"Today's curriculum and learning methodologies are nottuned towards equipping students with the right skills andcompetencies to become successful product developers.
"We strongly believe that there is a need for anexperiential learning platform, where developers get credibleproduct development experience by actually building realsoftware products. We are focussed on solving this problem inIndia," he added.
Citing the Annual Employability Survey 2019 byAspiring Minds, Rathinamurthy said that over 15 lakh studentsgraduate from Indian engineering colleges every year, but 80per cent of them are not fit for any IT or other job whereasthe IT sector faces a huge shortage of skilled techies.
The co-founder said that students graduating from'Crio Launch' stand the chance of bagging full or partscholarships to 'Crio Launch Plus', which is Crio's flagshipcareer-accelerator programme.
"Students who graduate from Launch Plus will be ableto hit the floor running from day one in any high-paced,dynamic, product company. For tech companies, Crio Launch Plusgraduates will be a unique pool of talented developers withthe hunger to build technology and solve real customerproblems," he added.
Rathinamurthy said both 'Crio Launch' and 'Crio LaunchPlus' are extensive programmes dedicated to foster a student'sproduct development skills in about eight-ten weeks, requiring400-500 hours of commitment to meet the targets set in each ofthe programmes.
The 'Crio Launch Plus' is a paid programme, he added. TRSOM SOM
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