A Nigerian startup helping individuals to gain technical skills, AltSchool has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its efforts in training people to become junior to mid-level engineers.

The new funding will be used to advance investment to build its content and curriculum, technology infrastructure and community concept that allows students to meet offline to network and learn together.

In partnership with higher institutions to provide diploma certificates, the startup provides a solution as an online school with a curriculum to upskill non-technical people with technical and soft skills.