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Udemy

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Udemy helps students make moves. Whether you want to get promoted, break into a new industry, start a company, further a passion, or just accelerate your life, Udemy helps you learn from the amazing instructors in the world, so that you can get there and get there faster.

A wide range of experts teach on Udemy today, including New York Times best-selling authors, CEOs, celebrities, and Ivy League professors. These expert instructors have taught over 600,000 students on Udemy, helping them learn everything from programming to yoga to design to photography and more.

Experts leverage Udemy’s course creation platform to build online courses using video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, zip files and live classes. Courses can be published as either free or paid. Instructors keep 70% of the revenue from the sales of their paid courses.

Key Facts

• Founded in February 2010.
• Launched in May 2010.
• Launched paid course platform in December 2010.
• Udemy’s top 10 earning instructors did >$1.6 million in course sales (as of May 2012).

Recent Milestones

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  Udemy received $12M in Series B funding. (12/7/12)
  Posted 12/7/12 at 7:22pm via freshnews.com
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  Udemy added Dennis Yang as President and COO. (7/1/12)
  Posted 10/4/12 at 1:30pm
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  Udemy received $3M in Series A funding. (10/12/11)
  Posted 10/12/11 at 5:29pm via techcrunch.com
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  Udemy added Burak Oguz as Senior Software Engineer (Udemy Turkey). (8/1/11)
  Posted 8/12/11 at 1:21am
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  Udemy added Mustafa Demir as Director of Engineering. (5/1/11)
  Posted 9/15/11 at 8:21am
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  Udemy received $1M in Seed funding. (8/31/10)
  Posted 8/31/10 at 8:38am via techcrunch.com
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  Udemy added Gagan Biyani as Co-Founder. (2/1/10)
  Posted 2/8/10 at 11:01am
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  Udemy added Oktay Caglar as Co-Founder and CPO. (1/1/10)
  Posted 5/7/12 at 10:31am
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  Udemy added Eren Bali as Co-Founder and CEO. (1/1/10)
  Posted 9/7/10 at 9:55am
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  Udemy added Darian Shirazi as Advisor.
  Posted 6/19/11 at 10:42am
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  Udemy added Joshua Stylman as Investor.
  Posted 3/20/11 at 7:59pm
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  Udemy added Brad Keywell as Board Member.
  Posted 12/6/11 at 9:31pm
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  Udemy added Jon Bischke as Advisor.
  Posted 6/19/11 at 10:42am
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  Udemy added James Kenigsberg as Advisor.
  Posted 6/19/11 at 10:42am

Videos

Screenshots

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Above: Create a Course
Uploaded: 10/13/11

Sources

1. TechCrunch - Udemy (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Crowdsourced Learning Platform Udemy Raises $3 Million From Lightbank And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Udemy Receives $12 Million in Series B Financing Led by Insight Venture Partners (freshnews.com) [edit]