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Udemy, Inc. is a profit-oriented company offering massive open online courses (MOOCs) to professionals and students. Eren Bali, Oktay Caglar, and Gagan Biyani founded the company in May 2010.
There are nearly 175,000 courses, 45 million students, and 60,000 instructors teaching classes in more than 75 languages on the platform as of September 2021. More than 644 million people have enrolled in courses.
Most courses are taken to enhance job-related skills. Others earn technical certification credits. Corporate trainers who wish to provide training to their employees are given special consideration by Udemy.
| Udemy Co-Founded by | Eren Bali, Oktay Caglar, and Gagan Biyani |
| Founded in | May 2010 |
| Official Website | Udemy |
| Twitter Account | @udemy |
| Udemy net worth | $3.25 billion (Last Updated 2022) |
Udemy net worth
Udemy, an online education platform, raised another $50 million, increasing its valuation to $3.25 billion, up from $2 billion according to data from February 2021. The company has raised more than $273 million in funding since its founding in San Francisco in 2010. According to Bloomberg, Tencent Holdings, a Chinese tech company, is the leading participant in this round.
Udemy History
Eren Bali, 36, a member of Forbes’ list of 30 under 30, founded the company in 2010. While growing up in a poor village in southeastern Turkey, he explored math problems on the Internet to satisfy his math obsession. He is currently chairman of Udemy.
Company’s growth
Over 35 million people have signed up with the company, making it a popular online learning platform. You will only find it on this site, where the instructors have almost no restrictions to design their own courses. Sourdough bread baking and Zoom video conferencing have been among the most popular classes offered during the pandemic.
Location
Udemy is headquartered in:
- US
- San Francisco
Hubs of the company are located in:
- Denver, US
- Gurugram, India
- Ankara, Turkey
- Dublin, Ireland
- São Paulo, Brazil
