Coursera

IPO

Courses, Professional Certificates, and Degrees Online

Public · Mountain View, United States · Founded 2012 · $437.1M raised

Employees
1001–5000
Founded
2012
Business Model
B2C
Total Funding
$437.1M
Last Round
$130.0M Series FJul 2020
Rounds
8
Type
Public

About

Coursera is a leading global online learning platform founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. The platform partners with over 300 leading universities and companies worldwide — including Yale, Google, IBM, and Duke — to offer more than 7,000 courses, professional certificates, and accredited online degrees across technology, business, data science, arts, and humanities. With over 148 million registered learners globally, Coursera serves individual learners seeking career advancement, enterprises building workforce skills, and governments addressing education access. The company went public on the NYSE in 2021 and operates a freemium model where most course content is freely auditable, with certificates and degree programs available for a fee.

Summary

Coursera is an EdTech company based in Mountain View, United States, founded in 2012. It has raised $437.1M in total across 8 rounds, most recently a $130.0M Series F round in Jul 2020. Investors include NEA, Kleiner Perkins and SEEK.

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Series FSeries FJul 2020
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