Bath, February 18 2025 – The difficult decision has been made to close iO Academy to new admissions from the end of March 2025.
iO Academy was founded as a software bootcamp to train up skilled software engineers, data engineers and scientists. At the time, there was a national shortage of these skills in the UK. The Academy took people with little-to-no experience, but with the aptitude to learn, from zero to hero in as little as 12 weeks, ready for their first tech job. 2023-2024 alone saw more than 100 individuals complete courses and upskilling workshops in disciplines ranging from software development and Agile project management, to data science and machine learning.
iO Academy supported the wider tech sector in the South West, and nationally, by producing a regular stream of software developers and data science specialists ready to fill Mayden’s and other employers’ vacancies. In all more than 1000 students have graduated from the Academy in the last decade, benefitting more than 50 companies, mainly across Bath and Bristol.
However, like many software bootcamps, iO Academy has been experiencing challenging commercial conditions since the pandemic. The Academy adapted their offering to include remote courses and explored alternative funding streams, but sadly the market for high quality training is no longer in demand in the way it was when the iO Academy was founded almost a decade ago.
“iO and its trainers are multi-award winning, and ranked in the top six coding bootcamps globally.” Says Chris May, Founder of Mayden and iO Academy. “We are enormously proud of all we have achieved and we are profoundly disappointed to have reached the end of the road after nearly ten years. In that time we have helped over a thousand students with their career in tech. The academy has had a significant impact not only on our own business, Mayden, but for a number of our industry partners in the region and beyond.”
The iO community will remain and the alumni network will be kept up to date with developments in the coming weeks.
For more information about Mayden, visit mayden.co.uk.
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Louisa Clark
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Mayden
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Mayden:
Mayden is a Bath-based health technology company founded in 2000 that now supports over 200 healthcare services to deliver data-driven, patient centered care. Mayden’s flagship product, iaptus, supports both community and mental health services to streamline care for improved outcomes. iaptus allows patients to take greater control of their care, self-referring for treatment, managing their own appointments and completing questionnaires from home about their progress and outcomes. Mayden is described as having: “an agile, open working culture, a flat structure and shared responsibility and reward for our success”.
