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Duolingo

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

Pittsburgh, United StatesFounded 2011Edtech
Valuation $5.12B Market cap · Aug/2026
Revenue $1.21B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $312M Latest reported FY

At a glance

Founded
2011
Headquarters
Pittsburgh, United States
Listing
IPO 2021
Sector
Edtech
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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Investors

10 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A3 investors entered at this stage

Series B and later7 investors entered at this stage

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.

Alumni founders

5 of 7 startups shown

Former Duolingo employees who went on to found 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
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
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

Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$83k

3 active patent families included in this estimate.

A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.

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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.

Portfolio analysis

4 deals across Duolingo's capital deployment.

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

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        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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        Duolingo's portfolio, mapped.

        Stage
        Period
        4 of 4 deals

        Market sentiment

        Posts on X, past 7 days

        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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