Augment.org, the French startup offering an online MBA taught in English by well-known business leaders and founders, has obtained $3.7 million in new seed funding, enough to allow it to add more lessons and pursue a global expansion.

HEC Paris graduates Roy Wellner and Ariel Renous founded Augment in May 2022 after concluding that traditional MBA programs were more theoretical than practical, particularly for starting new ventures. Their solution, to build courses around elegantly filmed presentations by entrepreneurs such as Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) and Chris Barton (Shazam), reeled in a $2.3 million investment within a matter of weeks. Since March 2023, Augment has enrolled 500 students; 80 have graduated. And 150 of them, says Wellner, have added Augment to their LinkedIn profiles.