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Duolingo
Edtech · Pittsburgh, United States · Founded 2011 · IPO 2021 Unicorn
Duolingo mafia
Startups founded by Duolingo alumni
Former Duolingo employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Mateo CreamerMexico
Vicki CheungUnited States
Daniel FalabellaUnited States
Alexandra JohnsonUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Duolingo has talent and traffic
(44 of 2,604 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$82k patent portfolio · 3 active families
Where Duolingo concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Duolingo 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
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.
4 deals across Duolingo's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
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”.
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
See Duolingo on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.