# Udacity

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/udacity

- Industry: Education/Training
- Headquarters: Sacramento, US
- Website: www.udacity.com
- Total disclosed funding: $161M
- Latest round: Series D (Nov 9, 2015)
- Investors on record: 10

## About

Based in California, US, and founded in 2011 by co-founder Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, Udacity, Inc. operates as a provider of educational technology platform that offers courses online such as business, data science, and artificial intelligence. In March 2024, Accenture acquired Udacity, Inc. from Bertelsmann AG.  

Udacity, Inc. developed a digital edutech platform for learning various courses online. The company offers a variety of programmes including business analytics, SQL, AWS cloud architect, data analyst, intro to programming, digital marketing, self-driving car engineer, artificial intelligence, deep learning, digital marketing, flying car and autonomous flight engineer, machine learning engineer, and robotics software engineer. In addition, the firm provides a wide range of degree courses such as school of artificial intelligence, school of autonomous systems, school of business, school of cloud computing, school of cybersecurity, school of data science, school of executive leadership, school of product management, school of programming, and many more.

## Funding rounds

- Series D, Nov 9, 2015, $105M — CRV, Baillie Gifford, GV, Andreessen Horowitz, Bertelsmann AG, Drive Capital, Emerson Collective
- Series C, Sep 12, 2014, $35M — CRV, Andreessen Horowitz, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Valor Capital Group, Drive Capital, Recruit Holdings
- Series B, Oct 25, 2012, $17M — CRV, Andreessen Horowitz
- Series A, Dec 12, 2011, $4M — CRV

## Investors

- CRV (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/crv) — Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D
- Andreessen Horowitz (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/andreessen-horowitz) — Series B, Series C, Series D
- Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/bertelsmann-digital-media-investments) — Series C
- Valor Capital Group (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/valor-capital-group) — Series C
- Drive Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/drive-capital) — Series C, Series D
- Recruit Holdings — Series C
- Baillie Gifford (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/baillie-gifford) — Series D
- GV (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/gv) — Series D
- Bertelsmann AG — Series D
- Emerson Collective — Series D