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2U

Edtech · Crystal City, United States · Founded 2008 · IPO 2014 Unicorn

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Valuation

$772K

Market cap · 2026

Revenue

$969M

Latest reported FY

Investors

7 investors on 2U's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Tap any card for that investor's profile.

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage

Novak Biddle Venture Partners

City Light Capital

Redpoint

Series B+ 4 investors entered at this stage

Highland Capital Partners

QED Investors

Bessemer Venture Partners

Rethink Capital Partners

Global footprint

Where 2U has talent and traffic

AI talent share

1.4% of workforce is AI talent
(39 of 2,887 staff)

Core AI30.1%

Other AI361.25%

Non-AI workforce2,84898.65%

Web traffic by country

130K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States35.7%

🇮🇳 India8.2%

🏳️ Nigeria5.8%

🇿🇦 South Africa5.2%

🇨🇦 Canada4.7%

Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$67k patent portfolio · 1 active families

Total estimated portfolio value via Dealroom Patent Intelligence (Patsnap), with quality scores compared against same-sector peers.

Estimated portfolio value

$67k

8.7% of market cap · 3.5× smaller than top peer Instructure ($235k)

1 active patent families

Where 2U innovates Data storeVideo recordingData librarySequencing dataComputer science

Below peer median on Strategic, Market

Quality vs same-sector peers

2U on the five Patsnap quality dimensions

2U in orange. Same-sector peers are the top filers by total patent value. All scores 0–100; higher is stronger.

Compare against

Patent quality scores (0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap

Tech-focus vs peers

Where 2U concentrates inside the peer cluster

Axes are the most-shared Patsnap topics across 2U and its top peers. Each polygon's reach on an axis = how prominent that topic is in that company's portfolio (#1 topic = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0).

Compare against

Top-topic prominence (rank inverted, 0–100)

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap top-10 topics per company

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