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Duolingo
The world’s most popular application to learn languages online with over 500 million users
At a glance
- Status
- Listed
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Pittsburgh, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2021
- Sector
- Edtech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Knowledge graph
News
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Sep 22, 2026
Analysis
Swiss diaspora have built $33.5B of unicorns abroad
Sep 15, 2026
Analysis
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Sep 15, 2026
News
Duolingo acquires Animade to deepen its creative capabilities
Aug 13, 2026
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
- TFTimothy Ferriss
Union Square Ventures
Ashton Kutcher
Series B and later7 investors entered at this stage
- DCDrive Capital
- CUCarnegie Mellon University
Durable Capital Partners
CapitalG
Kleiner Perkins
NEA
General Atlantic
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Duolingo employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
OCOutsmart CollegeEst. 2024
Gina GotthilfUnited States
EDEkho DealerEst. 2022
Mateo CreamerMexico
Vicki CheungUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
3 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Duolingo was the 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.
4 deals across Duolingo's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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.
Duolingo's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Duolingo 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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