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Udemy
Connecting millions of students to the skills they need to succeed
At a glance
- Founded
- 2010
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Listing
- IPO 2021
- Sector
- Edtech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
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Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed9 investors entered at this stage
- LBLarry Braitman
Benjamin Ling- JSJoshua Stylman
Naval Ravikant- MCMHS Capital
- SPSignia Venture Partners
500 Global
Jeremy Stoppelman
Keith Rabois
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
- LILightbank
Learn Capital
Series B and later8 investors entered at this stage
Prosus
Norwest Venture Partners
Stripes- RVRockstone Ventures
Tencent
Insight Partners
Gaingels- BEBenesse
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Udemy employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Gagan BiyaniUnited States
Simon Van Den HendeBelgium
Akshay NarisettiUnited States
Nicolas Rojas NinoUnited StatesGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
3 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Udemy was the backer or acquirer, 2016–2025. 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.
6 deals across Udemy's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Udemy 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.
Udemy's portfolio, mapped.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Udemy 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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