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Udemy
Edtech · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2010 · IPO 2021 Unicorn
Udemy mafia
Startups founded by Udemy alumni
Former Udemy employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Simon Van Den HendeBelgium
Gagan BiyaniUnited States
Nicolas Rojas NinoUnited States
Kerem YILMAZUnited States
Jon BischkeUnited States
Nick JacobUnited States
Pablo StanleyUnited States
Elliot Boucher.France
Arman NobariUnited States
Anil SevimUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Udemy has talent and traffic
(163 of 9,300 staff)
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$181k patent portfolio · 3 active families
Where Udemy concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Udemy and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Udemy's 6 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Udemy appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
Udemy's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Udemy
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Udemy 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
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