Treehouse

About Treehouse

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Treehouse

All products by Treehouse reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

TreehouseAI Education & Training

Self-paced online coding courses with structured tracks and bootcamp programs

From $25/mo7.4/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Treehouse

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

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

Competitive Landscape

Who Treehouse competes with, and how they differ.

Codecademy7.7/10

Codecademy runs the same interactive-lesson, subscription-tier model as Treehouse but skews toward broader beginner tracks across 30+ languages rather than Treehouse's narrower Techdegree career paths with reviewed projects.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Udacity7.7/10

Udacity's Nanodegree programs are the closest historical analog to Treehouse's Techdegree -- both are paid, mentor-supported, project-based career tracks -- but Udacity partners directly with employers like Google and AWS on curriculum and charges per-program rather than a flat monthly subscription.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

DataCamp8.1/10

DataCamp specializes narrowly in data science, analytics and Python/R, overlapping with Treehouse's data-analysis track but without Treehouse's web development, iOS or general programming courses.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Educative8.0/10

Educative delivers text-based, in-browser interactive coding courses aimed at working developers and interview prep, versus Treehouse's video-led curriculum built for career-changers starting from scratch.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Scrimba7.9/10

Scrimba teaches web development through interactive, editable screencasts, a narrower format than Treehouse's mixed video/quiz/badge curriculum, and focuses almost entirely on frontend/JavaScript.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Coursera7.7/10

Coursera is a university- and industry-partnered course marketplace with individual courses and Professional Certificates (e.g. Google, IBM) rather than a self-contained curriculum, giving it broader subject range but less structured mentorship than Treehouse's Techdegree.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Treehouse's history, with sources.

1. Dec 16, 2021Acquisition

   Acquired by Xenon Partners

   Co-founder Ryan Carson announced the sale of Treehouse to Xenon Partners, a private-equity owner/operator of enterprise SaaS businesses; Carson departed and a new general manager took over, with terms undisclosed.

   oregonlive.com
2. Sep 30, 2021Milestone

   Laid off ~90% of staff without severance

   CEO Ryan Carson notified staff via a Slack message that jobs and health coverage would end September 30; roughly 41 positions were eliminated. The cuts followed the collapse of the company's earlier no-boss management structure and 32-hour workweek experiment.

   oregonlive.com
3. Apr 9, 2013Funding

   Series B — $7M led by Kaplan Ventures

   Treehouse Island, Inc. raised $7 million in Series B financing led by Kaplan Ventures, with existing investor Social+Capital Partnership participating, bringing cumulative funding to roughly $12.6 million.

   techcrunch.com
4. Apr 18, 2012Funding

   $4.75M raised from Social+Capital and Greylock

   Treehouse raised $4.75 million led by Chamath Palihapitiya's Social+Capital Partnership with participation from the Greylock Discovery Fund, while operating at a roughly $3 million revenue run rate.

   techcrunch.com
5. Oct 17, 2011Funding

   Seed round — $600K from Reid Hoffman, Kevin Rose and others

   Web-design education startup Treehouse closed a $600,000 seed round from investors including Reid Hoffman, Kevin Rose, David Sze, Josh Elman and Chamath Palihapitiya, with the company already profitable and serving clients like Estee Lauder and Disney.

   techcrunch.com
6. 2011Founded

   Founded by Ryan Carson and Gillian Carson

   Treehouse Island, Inc. was founded in 2011 by Ryan Carson and Gillian Carson, growing out of Carson's earlier company Carsonified; it opened initially in Orlando, Florida before relocating headquarters to Portland, Oregon in 2012.

   en.wikipedia.org