Udacity, Inc.

About Udacity, Inc.

Financials

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Products by Udacity, Inc.

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UdacityAI Education & Training

Online tech education through project-based Nanodegree programs

From $212/mo7.7/10

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Competitive Landscape

Who Udacity, Inc. competes with, and how they differ.

Coursera7.7/10

Coursera partners with universities and employers (Google, IBM, Meta) to sell accredited Professional Certificates and degrees on a Coursera Plus subscription (~$399/year) or per-course basis -- the same career-credentialing buyer as Udacity's Nanodegrees, but through partner-branded curricula rather than Udacity's own courseware and live project review.

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edX7.3/10

edX (now under 2U, post-2024 restructuring) sells university-branded MicroMasters and Professional Certificate programs aimed at the same career-upskilling buyer as Udacity's Nanodegrees, but leans on partner-university credentialing rather than Udacity's own curriculum and mentor-graded projects.

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Udemy7.8/10

Udemy is a pay-per-course marketplace (most courses $12.99-$199.99, frequently discounted) of thousands of independent instructors teaching job and technical skills -- competing for the same "learn a tech skill online" spend as Udacity, but on volume and price rather than Udacity's curated, mentor-reviewed Nanodegree programs.

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Codecademy7.7/10

Codecademy sells self-paced coding career paths (web development, data science, ML engineering) at a lower subscription price than Udacity's Nanodegrees, without Udacity's live human mentor project review or capstone grading.

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DataCamp8.1/10

DataCamp targets in-browser, code-first skill-building (Python, R, SQL, Power BI) on a subscription model with drip-fed exercises, overlapping specifically with Udacity's Data Analyst and Data Scientist Nanodegree tracks but skipping Udacity's live mentor review.

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Maven Analytics7.6/10

Maven Analytics sells individual, project-based, one-time-purchase data/BI courses (Excel through Python); Maven's own competitive positioning already names Udacity's multi-month, mentor-supported Nanodegree tracks as the heavier, pricier alternative to its self-paced catalog.

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Company Timeline

Key milestones in Udacity, Inc.'s history, with sources.

1. May 20, 2024Acquisition

   Accenture completes acquisition of Udacity

   Accenture confirmed it had completed the purchase of Udacity, adding more than 230 people and Udacity's network of 1,400+ experts and its library of proprietary tech/AI courses to Accenture's LearnVantage enterprise-upskilling business.

   newsroom.accenture.com
2. Mar 5, 2024Acquisition

   Accenture announces plan to acquire Udacity

   Accenture said it would acquire Udacity to build out its AI-focused "LearnVantage" enterprise learning platform, alongside a separate $1 billion, three-year LearnVantage investment; the price of the Udacity deal itself was not disclosed.

   techcrunch.com
3. Nov 11, 2015Funding

   Series D — $105M led by Bertelsmann at $1B valuation

   Bertelsmann led a $105 million round joined by Baillie Gifford, Emerson Collective and Google Ventures alongside return backers Andreessen Horowitz, Charles River Ventures and Drive Capital; done at a $1 billion post-money valuation and bringing Udacity's total funding to $163 million, its first unicorn valuation.

   fortune.com
4. November 2013Milestone

   Pivots from free MOOCs to vocational "Nanodegree" programs

   After a Udacity/San Jose State University remedial-algebra pilot saw only a small fraction of enrollees pass, Sebastian Thrun said the free-MOOC model was "a lousy product" and redirected the company toward paid, vocational skills training that became the Nanodegree line.

   slate.com
5. Oct 25, 2012Funding

   Series B — $15M led by Andreessen Horowitz

   Andreessen Horowitz led a $15 million round joined by existing investors Charles River Ventures and Steve Blank, bringing Udacity's total outside funding to $21.1 million; the company had over 753,000 students enrolled at the time.

   techcrunch.com
6. Jul 5, 2011Founded

   Founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens and Mike Sokolsky

   Launched as a for-profit continuation of the free Stanford "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" course Thrun and Peter Norvig had taught online, which drew 160,000 signups from 190 countries.

   venturebeat.com