Udemy
Our mission is to improve lives through learning by providing flexible, effective skill development to empower organizations and individuals. Through our global marketplace platform, we provide the tools learners, instructors, and enterprises need to achieve their goals and reach their full potential. We enjoy problem-solving and collaboration, and we share a serious belief in the power of learning and teaching to change lives. Our culture fosters inclusion and belonging and encourages innovation, creativity, passion, and teamwork. We also celebrate our milestones and support each other every day. Listen to our Udemy Business Leading Up podcast here ➡️ bit.ly/UdemyLeadingUp More about Udemy: — We have more than 69M learners and over 940M course enrollments on our platform. — More than 75K instructors are teaching over 210K courses in over 75 languages. — We have over 15.7K enterprise customers and more than half of the Fortune 100 are Udemy Business customers. — Udemy Business customers have access to more than 25K courses, more than 11K of which are in English.
Founding Year
2010
Headquarters
San Francisco
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United States
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Total Funding Amount
$394.32M
Funds that Investested
Signia Venture Partners
Early-stage fund dedicated to helping passionate entrepreneurs realize their vision and build impactful, high-growth ventures.
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Insight Partners
For over 25 years, Insight Partners has helped over 600 companies turn their vision into reality. They invest and support founders from seed until the later stages.
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Lightbank
Led by serial entrepreneur Eric Lefkofsky (co-founder of Groupon) with the aim to be disruptive technology investors.
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500 Global
Previously called 500 Startups, 500 Global has backed over 5,000 founders representing more than 2,600 companies operating in 80 countries. Their portfolio includes 51 companies valued at over $1 billion and 140 companies valued at over $100 million.
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MHS Capital
Backed by tech entrepreneurs with a mission to fund category-defining tech companies
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Norwest Venture Partners
Offers entrepreneurs a broad range of services to help them build their businesses at every stage of growth. They realize that one size does not fit all when it comes to today’s operational challenges. Norwest's mantra is "All of what you need and none of what you don’t".
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Naval Ravikant
Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.
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Investors that Investested
Mark Sugarman
Founding General Partner, MHS Capital
Working with startups as an investor, advisor, and operator for over 15 years. Founder and managing partner of MHS Capital.
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Rob Hutter
Founder and Managing Partner, Learn Capital
Focused on seed, early stage and emerging growth companies dedicated to the transformation of learning and the improvement of individual and societal capacities at scale. Currently serves on the board for a number of Learn Capital companies including Amplify, Photomath, Smashcut, Brilliant, Andela, Brainly and several other breakthrough firms. In addition to his work with edtech companies, he is a participant in two academic neuroscience organizations. He was additionally co-founder and president of Swarm Networks, a massively scalable storage company purchased by Intel.
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Jeff Lieberman
Managing Director, Insight Partners
Investor. Believer in the power of technology to do good. And to do harm. Nets fan from the beginning. Jersey boy. Defender of the ocean. Proud water polo and soccer dad. Weekend gardener. Friend of all sentient beings. Deeply comfortable in silence. Jeff has spent the last 24 years at Insight Partners, where he has seen the enormous power of people and ideas, and their ability to disrupt the world. He has worked to help scale Insight, the world’s largest growth-oriented software investment firm. He serves on the board of numerous private and public companies in both consumer internet and software. He has led investments in leading companies such as Qualtrics, DeliveryHero, HelloFresh, Cvent, Mimecast and Udemy. Jeff has received numerous industry awards including being selected by AlwaysOn as a Venture Capital 100 winner, by Forbes as a member of the Midas List, and by GrowthCap as a top 5 software investor.
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Sergio Monsalve
Founding Partner, Roble Ventures
investor and successful entrepreneur who has operated global tech businesses in Silicon Valley invested early in unicorns like Kahoot!, Udemy, and Adaptive Insights during his decade-long career as Partner at Norwest Venture Partners has also held leadership roles at high-growth tech companies like eBay, PayPal, and Portal Software co-founded the Entrepreneur-In-Residence Program at the Stanford Graduate School of Education
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Bill Pescatello
General Partner, Lightbank
Bill Pescatello is the General Partner at Lightbank. Bill previously worked at Evolv Ventures as a Founder and Managing Partner. He attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Northwestern University.
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Eric Lefkofsky
Co-Founder, Lightbank
Eric is the co-Founder of Lightbank, a venture fund investing in disruptive technology businesses. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), a global e-commerce marketplace, and an early investor in Uptake Technologies, a leading predictive analytics platform for the world’s largestindustries; Mediaocean, a leading provider of integrated media procurement technology; Echo Global Logistics (NASDAQ: ECHO), a technology-enabled transportation and logistics outsourcing firm; and InnerWorkings (NASDAQ: INWK), a global provider of managed print and promotional solutions.
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Keith Rabois
General Partner, Founders Fund
Specializes in guiding early-stage startups into successful businesses: He joined PayPal when monthly burn-rate was $6 million; he joined LinkedIn, Slide and Square when they had no revenue. Served on the Board of Directors of Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM) from 2003 until 2015 and served on the Yelp Board from 2005-2014 (NYSE: Yelp). I served on the Board of Reddit from 2012-2019. I am a co-founder of OpenDoor and serve as our Executive Chairman. Prior angel investments include: YouTube, Airbnb, Palantir, Eventbrite, Lyft, Quora, Yammer, Skybox, Counsyl, Weebly, Wish, Eventbrite.
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Darian Shirazi
General Partner, Gradient Ventures
One of Mark Zuckerberg’s first outside hires for Facebook in 2005. Also founded the customer-data platform Radius and stayed on as its CEO for about seven years.
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Naval Ravikant
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Benjamin Ling
Founding General Partner, Bling Capital
Has backed 19 unicorns ex-Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health businesses
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