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MasterClass

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Producing and selling educational video courses developed around individual celebrities

San Francisco, United StatesFounded 2015Edtech
Valuation $2.5–5B Last recorded · 2026
Revenue $100–500M Latest reported FY
Headcount 500–1k Current team size
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Founded
2015
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Sector
Edtech
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

Latest news

Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning MasterClass.

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Investors

36 investors on the cap table

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

Seed7 investors entered at this stage

Series A3 investors entered at this stage

  • Team Downey
  • WME Ventures
  • Javelin Venture Partners

Series B and later26 investors entered at this stage

  • NEA
  • Evolution Media Capital
  • Eric Kwan
  • Javelin Ventures
  • Owl Ventures
  • GSV
  • IVP
  • Powerhouse Capital
  • Cleo Capital
  • Balyasny Asset Management
  • NextEquity Partners
  • Sam Lessin
  • Baillie Gifford
  • Yan-David Erlich
  • Outlier Ventures
  • Family Office of Ronald Lauder
  • Eldridge
  • DAN Venture Capital
  • UTA Ventures
  • 01 Advisors
  • Atomico
  • RPS Ventures
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Bonnier Capital
  • NewView Capital
  • Gaingels

Ownership

Share of equity by holder

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

17% Founders

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Talent

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Employees mapped 810 incl. 4 AI specialists
Founders Hidden — book a demo/100 quality score
Key operators 8 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
Startup mafia 4 alumni-founded startups
Talent movements Hidden — book a demo in · Hidden — book a demo out past 12 months

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.

Alumni founders

4 startups

Former MasterClass employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.

AirOpsEst. 2020
Alex HallidayUnited States
Signal score94
Outlier AIEst. 2015
Aaron Rasmussen.United States
Signal score63
SuperpeerEst. 2020
Thomas HopkinsUnited States
Signal score57
Class CompanionEst. 2023
Jack ForbesUnited States
Signal score53
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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
23 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States78.6%
🇨🇦 Canada4.4%
🇺🇾 Uruguay3.2%
🇧🇷 Brazil2.5%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom2%
Top 5 of 23 shown
Web traffic by country
3.5M monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States41.8%
🇨🇦 Canada6.9%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom6.7%
🇮🇳 India4.7%
🇦🇺 Australia3%
Top 5 markets shown

Market sentiment

Posts on X, past 7 days

An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about MasterClass 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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