General Assembly

Founded by Jake Schwartz, Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer, and Brad Hargreaves, General Assembly provides training, staffing, and career transition solutions. Its training courses cover coding, data analysis, user experience, design, marketing, and business. Students have the option of choosing from full-time and part-time courses taught on-campus, online, or on-premise with corporate clients. Founded in 2011 as a co-working space, General Assembly evolved into an education and career development company with more than 30 campuses in over 20 cities worldwide as of December 2020. In 2018, the company was acquired by Swiss staffing company Adecco.

In February 2021, the company partnered with EdAid—a provider of deferred tuition payment options to students—to allow students in the UK and Canada to pay their tuition over 24 months interest-free monthly installments. The partnership is marketed as a response to the need for upskilling and reskilling among employees and job-seekers in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In April 2021, General Assembly teamed up with Breaking Barriers—a UK charity that helps refugees with education, training, and employment—to provide training and career opportunities to refugees and people from refugee backgrounds across the UK for in-demand digital and technology roles. The company also launched a public sector group to partner with state and local governments and community-based organizations to provide digital skills training to underrepresented groups and workers displaced by the pandemic.