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Course Hero

Edtech · Redwood City, United States · Founded 2006 Unicorn

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

Valuation
$2.5–5B
Latest valuation · 2026
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Revenue
$500M–1B
Latest reported FY
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Headcount
2–5k
Current team size
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Investors

30 investors on Course Hero's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 18 investors entered at this stage
Great Oaks Venture Capital
Grauer Brothers Capital
Fred Grauer
David Grauer
Andrew Boszhardt
Jr.
Nils Johnson
SV Angel
Jared Grauer
Plug and Play
Mark Vadon
Steve Chen
Andrew Grauer
Maveron
Amidzad Partners
Frederick Grauer
Raj Sandhu
A&G Investments
Series A 4 investors entered at this stage
137 Ventures
GSV
SuRo Capital
Interplay
Series B+ 8 investors entered at this stage
Wellington Management
Sequoia
NewView Capital
Valiant Peregrine Fund
CrossWork
TPG
D1 Capital Partners
OMERS Private Equity

Ownership

Who owns Course Hero

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

Some investors are hidden on this public profile. See the full cap table on Dealroom →

Global footprint

Where Course Hero has talent and traffic

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
6.7M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States53.6%
🇵🇭 Philippines6.5%
🇨🇦 Canada6%
🇮🇳 India3.6%
🇮🇩 Indonesia3.2%
Top 5 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of Course Hero's talent

Dealroom maps Course Hero's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

8 standout operatorsDealroom-flagged across the org
10 AI specialistsincl. 1 core researchers
2,406 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$102k patent portfolio · 2 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$102k
<0.01% of valuation · 206.8× smaller than top peer Chegg ($21M)
2 active patent families
Where Course Hero innovates Data scienceLanguage modelQuestion answeringData miningGenerative model

Where Course Hero concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Course Hero and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

Compare against

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

Course Hero's 5 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Course Hero appeared as a 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.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        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

        02 · Portfolio market map

        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

        What the market is saying about Course Hero

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Course Hero on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        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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