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Coursera
Edtech · Mountain View, United States · Founded 2012 · IPO 2021 Unicorn
Provides free online courses from top universities
Coursera mafia
Startups founded by Coursera alumni
Former Coursera employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Advith ChelikaniUnited States
Pierre-Eric LeiboviciFrance
Quang TranUnited States
Mrutyunjaya NIndia
Mario ChamorroUnited States
Andrew NgUnited States
Taylor FrancisUnited States
Andrew PowellUnited States
Andrew MaasUnited States
Michele Riccardo EspositoUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Coursera has talent and traffic
(68 of 6,431 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$2M patent portfolio · 18 active families
Where Coursera concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Coursera and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Coursera's 3 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Coursera appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2019–2025. 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.
3 deals across Coursera's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Coursera 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.
02 · Portfolio market map
Coursera'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”.
Sentiment on X
What X is saying about Coursera
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Coursera 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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