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Duolingo

Edtech · Pittsburgh, United States · Founded 2011 · IPO 2021

The world’s most popular application to learn languages online with over 500 million users

Valuation $5.12B
Revenue $1.21B
EBITDA $312M
Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Knowledge graph
News Art-Wod raises €1.1M to turn art practice into a Duolingo-style habit Aug 20, 2026 News Duolingo acquires Animade to deepen its creative capabilities Aug 13, 2026 News London's Lucida AI raises $7M seed to outtalk Duolingo Jun 30, 2026 Market map What if Google made this? Well, here's what happened Jun 8, 2026

Talent graph

Duolingo's talent

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Employees mapped 2,978 incl. 44 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 30 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 7 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Investors

10 investors on Duolingo's cap table

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

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage
Timothy Ferriss
Union Square Ventures
Ashton Kutcher
Series B+ 7 investors entered at this stage
Drive Capital
Carnegie Mellon University
Durable Capital Partners
CapitalG
Kleiner Perkins
NEA
General Atlantic

Duolingo mafia

Startups founded by Duolingo alumni

Former Duolingo employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

Outsmart CollegeEst. 2024
Gina GotthilfUnited States
Signal score88
Ekho DealerEst. 2022
RMRowan MocklerUnited States
Signal score87
CometaEst. 2022
Mateo CreamerMexico
Signal score84
GantryEst. 2020
Vicki CheungUnited States
Signal score63
SleepagotchiEst. 2022
AKAnton KraminkinUnited States
Signal score52
FinaryEst. 2020
MLMichael Liu.United States
Signal score47
Rubber Ducky LabsEst. 2022
Alexandra JohnsonUnited States
Signal score45

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Global footprint

Where Duolingo has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
64 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States71.7%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2.7%
🇨🇳 China2.5%
🇮🇳 India2.4%
🇪🇸 Spain1.7%
Top 5 of 64 shown
Web traffic by country
54M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States25.9%
🇧🇷 Brazil6.9%
🇩🇪 Germany3.7%
🇮🇳 India3.6%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom3.5%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$83k patent portfolio · 3 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$83k
<0.01% of market cap · 1147.3× smaller than top peer CrowdStrike ($95M)
3 active patent families

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

Capital deployed

Duolingo's 4 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where Duolingo appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2022–2025. 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.

Portfolio analysis

4 deals across Duolingo's capital deployment.

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

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        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        Where Duolingo 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.

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        02 · Portfolio market map

        Duolingo'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
        4 of 4 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about Duolingo

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Duolingo 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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