Platform for online educational courses
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1001+ employees
Udemy's mission is to improve users' lives through learning. Its online platform gives customers - from students and entrepreneurs to governments and organisations - access to hundreds of thousands of educational courses.
With over 40 million students, and a set of specialist upskilling programmes (especially for businesses and governments), Udemy has become a leading virtual education provider for students and businesses alike.
They've been smart in spreading their short-courses across various sectors. In particular, capitalizing on the adult re-training stream may have helped them stay the course through the Covid-19 Pandemic. This is by no means a given, as competitors Udacity, Kano, and Lynda have recently faded out of sight or belt-tightened through re-structuring.
In late 2020 Udemy raised $50 million, taking their valuation to over $3 billion. They intend to continue global expansion, with suggestions they may branch out with acquisitions that complement their current course offerings. Udemy do not currently offer language learning, for example, and are unlikely to successfully compete with market-dominant language tools like DuoLingo. Such strategic growth could see them continue to lead an exciting and developing market.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
19% employee growth in 12 months
Nov 2020
$50m
Feb 2020
$50m
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Eren Bali
(Chairman)Having worked as a Developer for Gunlukbasin.com, Dovetail.tv, and BitGravity, Eren co-founded Eofer in 2005 and then Knowband in 2007. After 3 years at speeddate.com as a Founding Engineer, they co-founded Udemy in January 2010. They now serve as Chairman as well as being CEO of Carbon Health.
Gregg Coccari
(CEO, not founder)They have previously been President and CEO at Teleflora, NetQuote and Futuredontics. They left their role as CEO at Stella and Chewy's to join Udemy as CEO in 2019.
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