Crio.Do Acquired

Core value proposition: hands-on, project-based programs designed to get learners hired at top tech companies.

Curriculum is built from 'work-like' micro-experiences sourced from real industry problems rather than generic coursework.

Learners build software products modeled on real problems from named tech companies as part of the curriculum.

Crio Launch Plus / Crio Accelerate carry an outcome-based guarantee: refund if the learner doesn't land a job above a minimum guaranteed CTC within a year.

"Hire from Crio" offers companies pre-vetted developers with no hiring fee and a faster hiring cycle.

Crio Launch Plus is a career program for students, providing work-like software product development experience to help them land their first tech job.

Crio Accelerate targets working professionals seeking to upskill or switch into tech roles via hands-on project work.

Corporates use Crio Onboard to ramp up fresh recruits; client list includes Flipkart, Visa, Goibibo, Rakuten, Jio, Kaleyra, Capillary, NoBroker, Meesho, PublicisSapient and PhonePe.

Companies use "Hire from Crio" to recruit MERN, Java Spring Boot and QA automation developers with verified project experience.

Flagship B2C programs are sold with a money-back guarantee tied to a Minimum Guaranteed CTC, aligning the company's relationship with learners to job outcomes.

Crio DevSprint is positioned as a pure learning product distinct from the guaranteed-placement programs, showing a tiered relationship model by product.

Fellowship programs and career tracks are marketed and sold direct-to-consumer through the company's own website.

Free community externship program used as a top-of-funnel channel, letting learners solve real problems inside an actual startup setting.

B2B training programs are sold directly to corporate engineering/L&D teams to onboard fresh recruits.

Core activity is sourcing and packaging real-world engineering problems from partner companies into structured, work-like learning modules.

Delivers technical onboarding curricula tuned to specific company requirements to ramp up early-career engineering talent for enterprise clients.

Runs a no-fee developer placement pipeline (Hire from Crio) that screens and presents job-ready developers to hiring companies.

Structured project-based learning modules (Crio Micro-Experience) used as the core curriculum resource for corporate onboarding.

Each learner gets a fully provisioned virtual machine, Git repositories and CI pipeline configured for automated project assessment.

Ongoing project guidance is delivered to learners through continuous remote mentorship over Slack.

Corporate clients using Crio Onboard to train early-career engineering hires, including NoBroker, Goibibo, Visa, Kaleyra, Capillary, PublicisSapient, Meesho, Flipkart, Rakuten, PhonePe, and Jio (client list per Crio's own site).

Named tech companies whose real products/problems are used as the basis for learner projects.

Acquired by Y Combinator-backed edtech Skill-Lync in November 2022; Crio continues to operate as an independent brand under the Skill-Lync Group.

Career programs such as Crio Launch Plus / Crio Accelerate charge a flat upfront fee plus GST, refundable if the placement guarantee isn't met.

Corporate clients pay per developer enrolled in an onboarding training cohort.

In its first 10 months of FY19 operations, 80% of total expenditure (~Rs 49.8 lakhs) went to staff salaries and payments to professional consultants.