Udemy

About Udemy

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Udemy

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

UdemyAI Education & Training

Online course marketplace for skills, careers, and AI

From $20/mo7.8/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Udemy

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Udemy's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.8 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

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

Competitive Landscape

Who Udemy competes with, and how they differ.

LinkedIn Learning7.6/10

Bundled into LinkedIn Premium and Microsoft enterprise seat licenses rather than sold per course, and leans on LinkedIn's professional-network data for recommendations, versus Udemy's open marketplace of independently priced instructor courses.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Skillshare7.4/10

A flat monthly/annual subscription with no individual course purchases, skewed toward creative and hobbyist skills rather than Udemy's broader technical, business, and IT catalog.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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edX7.3/10

Built on university and institutional partnerships (Harvard- and MIT-founded) offering accredited certificates and degree pathways, versus Udemy's open instructor marketplace with no accreditation requirement.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Udacity7.7/10

Narrower catalog centered on tech "Nanodegree" programs with mentor-graded projects and per-program subscription pricing, competing mainly for Udemy's programming and data-science course buyers rather than its full catalog.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Docebo7.9/10

An enterprise LMS software vendor, not a course marketplace — companies license Docebo to host their own training content, competing with Udemy Business for corporate L&D software budget rather than for course content.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Udemy's history, with sources.

1. May 28, 2026Milestone

   CEO Hugo Sarrazin departs for Avalara

   Hugo Sarrazin, who led Udemy through its AI-reskilling pivot and the Coursera merger, left to become CEO of Avalara, effective May 29, 2026.

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2. May 11, 2026Acquisition

   Coursera completes acquisition of Udemy

   Coursera closed its all-stock merger with Udemy, converting each Udemy share into 0.800 Coursera shares; Udemy became a wholly owned subsidiary and filed to deregister its stock and delist from Nasdaq shortly after.

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3. Dec 17, 2025Acquisition

   Coursera agrees to acquire Udemy in all-stock merger

   Coursera and Udemy signed a definitive merger agreement under which Udemy stockholders receive 0.800 Coursera shares per Udemy share (a 26% premium to the 30-day average); the deal implied a combined-company equity value of approximately $2.5 billion, with existing Coursera holders retaining about 59% and Udemy holders about 41%.

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4. Mar 13, 2025Milestone

   Hugo Sarrazin appointed Chief Executive Officer

   Udemy named Hugo Sarrazin, formerly President and Chief Product & Technology Officer at UKG and a 26-year McKinsey veteran, as CEO, succeeding Greg Brown.

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5. Aug 16, 2024Milestone

   Co-founder Eren Bali returns as Chief Technology Officer

   Eren Bali, Udemy's co-founder and CEO until 2014, rejoined the executive team as CTO, stepping down from the board and succeeding Venu Venugopal, to lead engineering, data and technical program management.

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6. Oct 29, 2021Funding

   IPO on Nasdaq (UDMY) — $420.5 million raised

   Udemy priced its IPO at $29.00 per share, selling 14.5 million shares to raise $420.5 million in gross proceeds, and began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker UDMY.

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7. 2020Funding

   Series F preferred stock financing — approximately $80.8 million

   Udemy closed a Series F preferred stock round (3.35 million shares at $24.13/share, ~$80.8 million liquidation value) during 2020, its final private financing round before going public, per its 2021 IPO prospectus.

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8. Jun 2, 2016Funding

   Naspers invests $60 million

   South African internet and media group Naspers invested $60 million in the online-learning company to help it expand its global reach.

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9. 2014Funding

   Series C preferred stock financing — $32.0 million

   Udemy raised a Series C round with a liquidation value of $32.0 million (16.2 million shares at $1.98/share), per the preferred-stock table in its 2021 IPO prospectus.

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10. November 2012Funding

    Series B preferred stock financing — $12.3 million

    Udemy raised a Series B preferred stock round with a liquidation value of $12.3 million; its IPO prospectus cites a Series B-related ownership change in November 2012.

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11. September 2011Funding

    Series A / A-1 preferred stock financing — approximately $5.0 million

    Udemy raised Series A and Series A-1 preferred stock, together worth roughly $5.0 million in liquidation value; its IPO prospectus notes an ownership change tied to the Series A-1 issuance in September 2011.

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12. January 2010Founded

    Founded by Eren Bali, Oktay Caglar, and Gagan Biyani

    Eren Bali co-founded Udemy in January 2010 with Oktay Caglar and Gagan Biyani as an online marketplace for instructor-created video courses, after raising initial seed funding.

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