Scrimba AS

About Scrimba AS

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Scrimba AS

All products by Scrimba AS reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

ScrimbaAI Education & Training

Interactive coding courses where you edit code directly inside video tutorials

From $25/mo7.9/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Scrimba AS

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Scrimba AS's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.0 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Domain Practitioner the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Scrimba AS competes with, and how they differ.

Codecademy7.7/10

Codecademy runs a broader multi-language curriculum with structured certification paths and a bigger enterprise/B2B sales motion, versus Scrimba's narrower JavaScript/React screencast format built by a founder-led team with no dedicated sales staff.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Educative8.0/10

Educative delivers text-based interactive coding lessons (no video) aimed at working engineers prepping for interviews and system design, while Scrimba's core format is screencast video paired with an inline, replayable code editor aimed at beginners.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Treehouse7.4/10

Treehouse sells a flat-fee library spanning broader tech-career tracks (including non-coding disciplines like UX and data), without Scrimba's signature in-video interactive-code-editing "scrim" format.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Udemy7.8/10

Udemy is a general course marketplace across thousands of topics sold as one-off purchases from independent instructors, unlike Scrimba's in-house-produced subscription curriculum focused specifically on interactive front-end coding.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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freeCodeCamp

freeCodeCamp offers a fully free, donation-funded, text-based curriculum covering the same JavaScript/React front-end territory as Scrimba, without Scrimba's paid screencast-video format or Scrimba's revenue-sharing distribution deal with Coursera.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Scrimba AS's history, with sources.

1. Feb 19, 2024Milestone

   Revenue grows 34% to NOK 23.6M in 2023

   Founder Per Harald Borgen disclosed 2023 revenue of NOK 23.6 million to Shifter, up 34% from NOK 17.6 million in 2022.

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2. Feb 20, 2023Partnership

   Coursera distribution partnership, passes 1M users

   Scrimba passed one million users and struck a deal to distribute its courses through Coursera, with Borgen noting "we earn more by sharing our courses with them than keeping everything within our own walls."

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3. Jul 12, 2021Milestone

   Reports NOK 10M annual subscription revenue, zero sales/marketing hires

   Within a year of its subscription launch, Scrimba's recurring revenue reached NOK 10 million with no dedicated sales or marketing staff, growth Borgen called "nearly exclusively organic."

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4. Aug 19, 2020Funding

   Joins Y Combinator (Summer 2020), pivots to subscription, turns profitable

   On its fourth application, Scrimba was accepted into Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch (~NOK 1.5M investment) and used the program to launch a subscription model, reaching $45K MRR within a month and turning the company profitable.

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5. Sep 4, 2019Launch

   Scrimba Pro launches, $29 paid tier

   After two years of free courses, Scrimba launched its paid "Scrimba Pro" tier at $29 and took in more than NOK 400,000 in the first week.

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6. Dec 24, 2017Launch

   First interactive coding course launches, users triple

   Scrimba launched its first interactive coding course on Christmas Eve 2017; its user base tripled from roughly 5,000 to 15,000 within days, gaining 10,000 new students in a week.

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7. Jul 3, 2017Funding

   Alliance Venture invests NOK 500K

   Norwegian VC Alliance Venture made an unusually small NOK 500,000 investment in Scrimba, below its typical NOK 5-15M check size, per partner Erling Maartmann-Moe.

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8. Mar 28, 2017Funding

   Pre-seed — NOK 1.6M from StartupLab's FoundersFund and Nordic Makers

   Scrimba raised NOK 1.6 million from StartupLab's FoundersFund and Nordic Makers, with angel participation from Hampus Jakobsson, Unity co-founder David Helgason and Zendesk co-founder Alexander Aghassipour.

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9. Oct 1, 2016Founded

   Scrimba AS incorporated in Oslo, Norway

   Per Harald Borgen registered Scrimba AS (org. nr. 918111573) with the Brønnøysund Register Centre; co-founders Sindre Osen Aarsæther and Magnus Holm joined the venture, which publicly launched its coding-course platform about a year later.

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