Piper raises $7.6 million to expand its DIY computer kits for children

Piper, the company behind the Raspberry Pi-powered DIY computer building kit for kids, has raised $7.6 million in a series A round of funding led by Owl Ventures, a venture capital (VC) fund set up in 2013 with a focus on edtech startups.
It’s well understood that the kids of today will need the right skills to prosper in the world of tomorrow, which is why we have seen such an uptick in startups promising to provide general coding and computing skills. Founded out of San Francisco in 2014