Power Law company profile

Skillshare

Edtech · New York City, United States · Founded 2010

Skillshare is an online learning platform that provides a wide range of creative classes designed to fit into users' daily routines. The platform serves individuals looking to explore new skills or deepen existing passions, as well as teams seeking professional development. Skillshare operates in the e-learning market, targeting creative professionals, hobbyists, and businesses. Its business model is subscription-based, offering a free trial followed by a premium membership that grants unlimited access to all classes. Revenue is generated through these subscriptions, as well as team plans and partnerships. The platform also supports a community of teachers who earn money by sharing their expertise. Keywords: online learning, creative classes, personal growth, professional development, subscription model, e-learning, community support, creative professionals, hobbyists, team plans.

Valuation

$100–500M

Latest valuation · 2020

Unlock exact value

Headcount

500–1k

Current team size

Unlock exact value

Total funding● Pre-IPO

$100–500M

Unlock exact value

Investors

25 investors on Skillshare's cap table

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

Series A 15 investors entered at this stage

Founder Collective

SV Angel

Davidtisch

Eric Paley

Craig Shapiro

Jason Finger

Union Square Ventures

VTF Capital

Amasia

David Tisch

Series B+ 10 investors entered at this stage

Burda Principal Investments

Spero Ventures

Armentum Partners

OMERS Growth Equity

OMERS Private Equity

Adobe Systems

NewSpring Capital

Sopoong Ventures

Halmos Ventures

OMERS Ventures

Global footprint

Where Skillshare has talent and traffic

Workforce by country

57 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States32.5%

🇮🇳 India10.1%

🇨🇦 Canada8.5%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom6.6%

🇦🇺 Australia3.7%

Top 5 of 57 shown

Talent graph

The shape of Skillshare's talent

Dealroom maps Skillshare's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

78 team members profilednamed & role-tagged by Dealroom

550 employeestotal headcount

2 executives & foundersidentified by name

DimensionScore

AI Talent

Engineering

Product

Go-to-market

Leadership

Research

Book a demo to unlock Skillshare's exact scores

Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Skillshare

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Skillshare 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 Skillshare on the full Dealroom platform

Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.

Book a demo Explore company profiles