Khan Academy

Nonprofit online education platform

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1001+ employees
  • B2C
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Charity
Mountain View, CA

Company mission

Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world‑class education for anyone, anywhere.

Led by a woman

23% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Khan Academy is a non-profit that provides free online education materials, including teacher tools, instruction videos, and practice exercises to support users of all ages. It has over 10 million users a month and covers subjects all the way up to college level.

With nearly a quarter of American adults unable to use mathematics in daily life, Khan Academy’s interactive quizzes, instructional videos, and teacher tools are timely. Khan Academy started life as a series of educational YouTube videos, before building a full-scale platform after receiving an influx of donations from Silicon Valley philanthropists. This background has led it to embrace rather than reject the educational possibilities of new tech such as AI, with the founder regarding traditional institution's banning of tools like ChatGPT as a mistake.

The company offers its tools completely for free, instead relying on donations and volunteers. A key focus is tackling wealth inequality in education. A partnership with the College Board (who produce entrance examinations for higher education) has made access to SAT test prep materials free for millions. 2024 saw a partnership with Microsoft for Khan Academy's Khanmigo product, now free to use for Microsoft customers.

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Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance
  • Flexible spending account (FSA)
  • Dental insurance
  • Optical insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Performance bonus
  • 401K plan
  • Family medical leave
  • Diversity program
  • Pet friendly workplace
  • Affinity groups where Parents, Black, Hispanic/Latino, Women and Gender Minorities, and LGBTQIA+ identified folks come together

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jul 2020

$3m

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Oct 2017

$3m

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Total funding: $16.2m

Leadership

Holds a BA and MArch in Architecture from Stanford and Harvard University. They also have an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and formerly co-founded Duck Duck Moose, a mobile educational platform for children.

Salman Khan

(Executive Director)

They graduated from Harvard Business School and have previously worked in Finance.

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