Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

Facebook Classes has been compared to Udemy, an online course platform which raised hundreds of millions of dollars during the pandemic based on the idea that anyone can teach video classes. For instance, the company tried “Facebook Deals” back around 2010, which tried to disrupt the discount company Groupon.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Founded in 2010, Skillshare initially offered an online platform for users to find and teach in-person classes. Udemy, founded the same year, now claims to have 24 million students and 35,000 teachers across the world, and recently opened up an office in Brazil this summer. Then we’re going work toward cashflow positive.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

I was lucky enough to attend the inaugural ASU GSV back in 2010 in Tempe, Arizona. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc. Udemy (NASDAQ: UDMY) is down 52.4 So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. It was a modest two-day affair: maybe 350 attendees in sweaty overcrowded rooms, a few speeches by CEOs and academics.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

College enrollment has been on the decline, dropping 7 percent between 2010 and 2018. Quarter after quarter, the results of a growing roster of publicly traded edtech companies—including Udemy, Coursera, 2U, and Duolingo, for example —symbolizes the market demand for lifelong learning and upskilling.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Since 2010, venture funding dollars for U.S. This year saw no mega-rounds for startups in the postsecondary sector—unlike 2015, which saw HotChalk, Udacity, Udemy, Coursera and Civitas Learning account for more than $520 million of funding. Udemy did lead this pack in 2016 with a $60 million round.).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The likes of Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, MasterClass, Lynda, and Pluralsight have together raised more than $1 billion and represent combined enterprise value of more than $5 billion. These workers recovered only 80,000, or 1 percent, of those job losses between 2010 and 2016. This dichotomy is not lost on investors.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 18, 2016

Quad-C acquired Rainbow from Spire Capital Partners; in a separate press statement , Spire noted that it had initially partnered with Patrick Fenton, Rainbow’s founder and CEO, in 2010 “to invest in a platform providing a differentiated early education experience for children.”.

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