VeroSkills x Paralect

Portfolio / VeroSkills

Coding learning platform for students from underserved communities

1 month

to working platform

$700k ARR

in 4 months

$7M+

raised

Meet Daniel, the founder of VeroSkills! Daniel has vast background in software education, organized and ran bootcamps for developers and started VeroSkills with an idea to help students from underserved communities gain new skills and find a new job in tech sector.

The initial idea of VeroSkills was born in 2020. There was a massive shift where so many people have lost their job due to the pandemic. If you were working a retail job, working a factory job - they just literally went away overnight.

Initial problems with VeroSkills platform

Before starting the partnership with Paralect Daniel and the team were building the platform for about a year.

The initial problems included:

lack of QA and multiple issues in the released software

lack of structure and organisation to how software releases are to be done

low speed

a lot of engagement from the founder and the sales team were put into the development instead of sales & growth.

The initial set up included a small in-house dev team.

But it appeared that running the team of professional developers is still a job to do that takes time and needs to be done well. Plus hiring team members from big companies might get tricky. Because when you are working on a startup, you need to hire people that understand startups.

Key changes in the working process

The early days of partnership between VeroSkills & Paralect included some of the following changes in the way the product development works:

a lot of cleaning up, critical & high issues fixes;

setting up a roadmap with monthly backlogs and regular weekly releases;

setting up processes & artifacts for the transparent working flow: release notes, demo videos, weekly syncs with the whole team and founders;

introduction of the demo environment;

user analytics tools set up and statistics reporting;

automation testing;

Results & plans for the future

Right now, VeroSkills is at the 700K ARR milestone and the plan is to at least double in the coming 6 months. We have more than 10+ NGO partners who have already signed their students up to learn on the VeroSkills platform, and more students join every month.

We have also managed to build a small but really engaged team of tutors on the platform who communicate with our students and us on the daily basis, supporting and sharing insights.

In terms of development we still have a lot to work on with the platform:

focus on the students engagement features to keep them motivated to continue learning

introduce a recruiting flow for VeroSkills learning path graduates.

Watch the full interview with Daniel:

Daniel Walsh

CEO VeroSkills

I have never experienced this level of craftsmanship and ownership! I would not call Paralect a vendor anymore but a true partner with the customer's best interest in mind. If you get the chance to work with them, you'd be foolish not to. They are the real deal!

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