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About Udemy

Udemy is an incredible community platform that makes it easy for anyone to build an online course. Instructors can use video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, zip files and live classes to quickly build a course and share their expertise with anyone in the world with an internet connection. Students can take courses across a great breadth of categories, including: business & entrepreneurship, academics, the arts, health & fitness, language, music, technology, games, and more.

Udemy's goal is to disrupt and democratize the world of education by enabling anyone to teach and learn online. Just as blogging democratized the publishing industry, Udemy seeks to dramatically change education by empowering millions of experts to teach & share what they know.

Contact Information

Telephone: 760-483-3694
E-mail: press@udemy.com
Address:
425 2nd St. Suite 250
San Francisco, CA
94107

Key Facts

Founded in February 2010
Launched in May 2010
Raised $1,000,000 in August 2010 for a seed round from our investors.
Launched "paid course" platform in December of 2010
Over 6,000 courses created since launch
Over 70,000 lecture views every month
Instructors receive 70% of the revenue from course sales
Instructors selling their courses through the Udemy affiliate program receive 85% of the revenue from course sales
Raised $3,000,000 in August 2011 for a Series A round from Lightbank and company.

Featured Articles

October 12, 2011
Instructional portal Udemy raises $3 million

Udemy, a site that lets anyone create and upload courses, today announced it has raised $3 million in a funding round. Read More »
October 12, 2011
Online education site raises $3 mil in a round led by Groupon founders

Groupon co-founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell have invested in online educational site (with one complicate name) Udemy through their venture capital fund Lightbank. Read More »
October 12, 2011
Groupon Founders Bet Big On Education Website

Lightbank, the prominent venture capital firm launched by Groupon co-founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, has announced the closing of a multi-million dollar financing round for a little-known online education website called Udemy.com. Read More »
October 12, 2011
Udemy gets $3M from Lightbank for online courses

Groupon investors Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell have led a $3 million Series A vote in Udemy, an online platform that allows anyone to host and learn from online classes. 500 Startups and MHS Capital also participated in the round. Read More »
October 12, 2011
Crowdsourced Learning Platform Udemy Raises $3 Million From Lightbank And Others

Not too long ago, Bill Gates said that in the future, all education will be online (he also implied that funding for the liberal arts and humanities should be cut, but I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that). Read More »
June 3, 2011
Why I'm Divesting In Shares In Any For-Profit Colleges

Wow. I really stepped in it. I got a very kind note from Gagan Biyani this morning, which I will quote here: "Hey man - just a quick tip. I'm from Berkeley - not Stanford. Its almost heretical to imply the latter :)" Read More »
February 21, 2011
Udemy: Democratizing Online Learning With Video

While many online video startups are working on ways to profit from the distribution on content, others are working on more nobel goals — like connecting teachers and students online. Read More »
February 20, 2011
Udemy Wants To Use Online Video To Reinvent Education

Video is so much more than just a source of entertainment. In the past, I’ve talked several times about how exciting it is to think about what video can do for education by adding shelf life to lectures or allowing students around the globe to interact and share in a lesson. Now a new company, called Udemy, is hoping to use video to turn the entire educational model on its ear. Read More »
February 11, 2011
Could Udemy give a Stanford level of education to anyone with a laptop and wifi connection?

Bill Gates recently said: ‘In 5 years the best education will come from the web’. And if Gates is right then Udemy could be the Stanford of online education institutions. If fact, Udemy could be better than Stanford... Read More »
December 2, 2010
Udemy: A Free Online University for All

Biyani, 23, is connecting the eager-to-teach with the eager-to-learn through Udemy, the Academy of You. "There are millions of experts everywhere, and we provide them with the tools to share their knowledge online. Read More »
September 10, 2010
How Udemy got oversubscribed

Gagan Biyani, founder of Udemy, tells the story of how he got 2x oversubscribed with a little help from Keith Rabois, Adeo Ressi, AngelList, and many others. Read More »
August 31, 2010
Udemy Scores $1M In Seed Funding, Aims To Democratize Online Learning

Udemy, which aims to democratize learning on the Web by basically letting anyone teach and school themselves through online courses, has raised $1 million in seed funding from a host of top notch investors to ramp up hiring efforts... Read More »
May 13, 2010
Get a Real-Life Learning Experience in Udemy’s Virtual Classrooms

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Read More »
April 5, 2010
Gagan Biyani of Udemy.com

Udemy provides teachers, tutors or any other sort of educator with a fully functional online school that can be set up in a couple of minutes. In the interview Gagan tells how he met his co-founders, what drives him and the team and he also gives us a presentation of the platform. Read More »