Le Wagon raises $19 million to build a global coding bootcamp

French startup Le Wagon has raised its first round of funding after many years of bootstrapping. The company closed a $19 million funding round (€17 million) a few months ago. Cathay Capital is leading the round with AfricInvest also participating.
“We’ve always bootstrapped since 2013 and we’ve always been profitable since day one,” Le Wagonco-founder and COO Romain Paillard told me. “Structurally, all of our metrics are doing well but we wanted to increase ou