SoloLearn

About SoloLearn

SoloLearn operates a mobile-first educational platform focused on teaching coding and artificial intelligence skills. The company was founded in 2014 by Yeva Hyusyan and Davit Kocharyan, originating from a coding bootcamp they ran in Armenia. The founders' goal was to make their successful but difficult-to-scale bootcamp program accessible globally through mobile devices. CEO Yeva Hyusyan has a background that includes working for the U.S. government, the World Bank, and serving as a country manager for Microsoft in Armenia. Inspired by her father, who opened a computer training center in the 1990s, and her experiences founding a startup accelerator at Microsoft's innovation center, Hyusyan developed a passion for making technical education scalable. This led to the creation of SoloLearn with her colleague Davit Kocharyan. The company has secured $30.9 million in total funding over four rounds, including a $5.6 million Series A in 2018 and a $24 million Series B in July 2021. Key investors include Drive Capital, Learn Capital, and Prosus Ventures. A notable achievement was winning the FbStart Apps of the Year competition in 2017. SoloLearn's business model is freemium, offering a wide range of courses for free to remove entry barriers for beginners. Revenue is generated through a subscription service, SoloLearn Pro, which provides an ad-free experience and access to more advanced, real-world coding challenges. Additional revenue comes from in-app advertising for free users and corporate training programs for businesses. The platform has a global user base, with over 30 million registered users as of late 2023. The largest age demographic for its users is 18-24 years old. The platform's core offering consists of bite-sized, gamified courses on over 20 topics, including Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, SQL, HTML, data science, and machine learning. The learning experience is designed to be interactive and social, featuring peer-to-peer sharing, a Q&A community, and coding competitions. Users can write and test code directly within the app's mobile code editor. Upon course completion, users receive a certificate to showcase their skills.