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Course Hero

Edtech · Redwood City, United States · Founded 2006

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

Valuation $2.5–5B
Revenue $500M–1B
Headcount 2–5k
Unlock exact values This page shows ranges. Dealroom has the exact numbers for Course Hero and the history behind them.
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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

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 →

Course Hero mafia

Startups founded by Course Hero alumni

Former Course Hero employees who went on to start their own 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
SunheroEst. 2021
SBStefan BraunSpain
Signal score59

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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
4.1M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States40%
🇵🇭 Philippines8.3%
🇨🇦 Canada5.6%
🇮🇳 India4%
🇦🇺 Australia3.6%
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
2,329 employees mappedperson by person
DimensionScore
AI Talentlive Score hidden — book a demo
Engineering Score hidden — book a demo
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Research Score hidden — book a demo
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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

$104k patent portfolio · 2 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$104k
<0.01% of valuation · 203.1× smaller than top peer Chegg ($21M)
2 active patent families
Where Course Hero innovates Data miningData scienceGenerative modelLanguage modelQuestion answering

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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