Udacity
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Udacity is an online education platform that offers digital upskilling programs, including Nanodegree certificates and courses, developed with industry leaders to address talent shortages. The company serves individuals seeking career transformation and organizations pursuing digital talent development.
Founders & leadership
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Sebastian Thrunin𝕏Founder (Stanford instructor who started Udacity)An adjunct professor at Stanford University since 2003, he founded Google X and led self-driving car work at Google, where he served as VP and Google Fellow, after founding VuTool, the mapping company acquired by Google and rebranded as Street View. He also founded Kitty Hawk's Cora aircraft program, sold to Boeing, and now serves as CEO of Sage AI Labs.
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Peter NorviginFounder (Stanford instructor who started Udacity)He spent more than two decades as an engineering director at Google and previously headed the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames, following roles as chief scientist at Junglee, chief designer at Harlequin Software, and senior research scientist at Sun Microsystems. He is an education fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and a researcher at Recursive, and has taught as a visiting lecturer at Stanford.
Investors · 13
Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M
Crimson Investment FundDelaware
CRV (Charles River Ventures)Bay Area · $250K – $5M
Drive CapitalColumbus · $5M – $30M
InvestXVancouver
Valor Capital GroupNew York · $100K – $5M
VCFA GroupNew York · $150K – $2.5M
Vershina CapitalNicosia
Hercules Capital, Inc.reportedSan Mateo · $5M – $500M
Also in the syndicate · 4
Ballie GiffordBertelsmannCharles River VenturesEmerson Collective
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$75M disclosed across 1 round · 2020
- $75Mdebt facilityNov 2020 · 2 sources
Andreessen Horowitz, Ballie Gifford, Bertelsmann, Charles River Ventures, CRV, Drive Capital, Emerson Collective, Hercules Capital
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Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.
Founder mafia
The Udacity mafia →89 people who came through Udacity went on to found or lead other companies.
Aaron GoldfederIntroduction to Machine Learning NanodegreeFounded Meetingflow +2Oliver CameronVP, EngineeringFounded Everyme +1Radu MaziluIntro to Machine LearningFounded PermitPortal +1Gabe RuttnerCourse Instructor, SME - Multiple CoursesFounded Hatchet +1Sujay MaheshwariDeep LearningFounded Cloudanix +1Juan PiscoAI Product Manager NanodegreeFounded Plannery +1Sid SharmaFoundations of AIFounded Familiar +1William RossInstructorFounded Federato +1Pedro GomesFront End Web DevelopmentFounded Reown +1Cameron Van Der BergSelf-Driving Car Engineer NanodegreeFounded Infravision +1Paul LwinDeep Learning NanodegreeFounded Aerial systems for contested logistics +1Harshit DwivediAndroid Developer NanodegreeFounded Aftershoot +1
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Udacity do?
- Udacity is an online education platform that offers digital upskilling programs, including Nanodegree certificates and courses, developed with industry leaders to address talent shortages. The company serves individuals seeking career transformation and organizations pursuing digital talent development.
- Who founded Udacity?
- Udacity was founded by Sebastian Thrun, Peter Norvig.
- Who are Udacity's investors?
- Udacity's investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Crimson Investment Fund, CRV (Charles River Ventures), Drive Capital, InvestX, Valor Capital Group, VCFA Group, Vershina Capital and 1 more.
- How much funding has Udacity raised?
- Udacity has disclosed $75M raised across 1 round.