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Udemy

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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.

Key Facts

• Founded in February 2010
• Launched in May 2010
• Received 1m dollars on August 2010 for a seed round from our investors.
• Launched our payments platform in December 2010
• 6,000 courses created
• 25,000 total lectures
• 70,000 lectures are viewed every month
• Paid out over $500,000 to instructors and partners of the Udemy ecosystem
• Instructors receive 70% of their proceeds from courses
• Instructors selling their courses through our affiliate program get 85% of the proceeds

Milestones

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  Udemy added Brad Keywell as Board Member.
  Posted 12/6/11 at 9:31pm
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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 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 Darian Shirazi 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
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  Udemy added Jon Bischke 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 Eren Bali as Co-Founder and CEO. (1/1/10)
  Posted 9/7/10 at 9:55am
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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 received $3M in Series A funding. (10/12/11)
  Posted 10/12/11 at 5:29pm via techcrunch.com
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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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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]