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Course Hero

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Digital learning platform helping students with supplemental study materials, tutoring, and flashcards

Redwood City, United StatesFounded 2006Edtech
Valuation $2.5–5B Last recorded · 2026
Revenue $500M–1B Latest reported FY
Headcount 2–5k Current team size
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At a glance

Founded
2006
Headquarters
Redwood City, United States
Sector
Edtech
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Latest news

Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Course Hero.

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Investors

30 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Seed18 investors entered at this stage

Series A4 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later8 investors entered at this stage

Ownership

Share of equity by holder

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

34% Founders
  • 10%
  • 10%
  • 10%
  • 7%
  • 5%

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Talent

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Employees mapped 2,329 incl. 10 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 8 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 6 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

5 of 6 startups shown

Former Course Hero employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

BrelliumEst. 2021
Alex Le-TuUnited States
Signal score87
Agua BlancaEst. 2021
Pierre-Eric LeiboviciFrance
Signal score84
PatPatEst. 2014
Albert WangUnited States
Signal score81
FreshlineEst. 2016
Joseph Han-Young LeeCanada
Signal score69
IN-HOUSE APPARELEst. 2019
TRTucker RadeckiUnited States
Signal score64
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
39 countries with
team presence
🇵🇭 Philippines43.7%
🇮🇳 India41.4%
🇺🇸 United States7.3%
🇰🇪 Kenya1.7%
🇨🇦 Canada1.1%
Top 5 of 39 shown
Web traffic by country
4.1M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States40%
🇵🇭 Philippines8.3%
🇨🇦 Canada5.6%
🇮🇳 India4%
🇦🇺 Australia3.6%
Top 5 markets shown

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$104k

2 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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Investments and acquisitions

Disclosed deals where Course Hero was the backer or acquirer, 2020–2022. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.

Portfolio analysis

5 deals across Course Hero's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

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        Where Course Hero deploys vs peers

        Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.

        Compare against

        Course Hero's portfolio, mapped.

        Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.

        Stage
        Period
        5 of 5 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Course Hero on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.

        Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

        Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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