Voxy

Voxy is an American eLearning company and English-language learning platform headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in São Paulo, Brazil. Its platform combines self-paced, asynchronous skills-based lessons with live one-on-one tutoring and small-group classes taught by certified instructors, available 24/7 across time zones. Course content is built from authentic material such as news stories, meeting recordings and interviews sourced from partners including the Associated Press and The Economist, and can incorporate a client's own materials so that, for example, a salesperson learns English from real sales calls.

The company positions its offering primarily as corporate language training for global teams, spanning industries such as financial services, manufacturing, energy, technology, food and beverage, fashion, healthcare, BPO, pharmaceuticals, and travel and hospitality, and use cases including upskilling, global expansion, internal mobility, executive training, software engineering, sales, HR and L&D, compliance training, frontline workers, and academic and test preparation. Additional products include the Voxy Proficiency Assessment (VPA), custom content development, and the Voxy Command Center for tracking program metrics and ROI. Voxy also serves higher education institutions, language schools, channel partners and adult learners, and its consumer mobile app supports English learning on smartphones, computers, Chromebooks and tablets.

Beyond corporate programs, Voxy software has been used by universities and language institutes in markets including Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, the United States, Argentina, Vietnam, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Italy and Spain, with Brazil historically its largest market.

Founding story

Voxy was founded by Paul Gollash and Gregg Carey and officially launched at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 in San Francisco, where Gollash pitched the company to a panel including Sean Parker, Greg Tseng, James Slavet and Victoria Ransom. The concept drew on Gollash's own experience learning a second language after moving to Chile and later Spain, and his view that learners engage better with real-world content. Before Voxy, Gollash earned a BA in economics from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and worked at Booz Allen Hamilton and the Virgin Group, where he helped launch Virgin Hotels.

Business model

Voxy sells subscription-based language training programs to companies and institutions, supported by consulting and customer success services that assess needs, build upskilling plans, set business-aligned metrics and track program progress. It also distributes a consumer English-learning mobile app with premium features and in-app digital purchases, and works with channel partners, higher education institutions and language schools.

Revenue comes from paid corporate and institutional training programs combining self-study content and live classes, plus premium subscriptions and digital purchases in the consumer app.

Traction

The company reports 5 million learners in 150 countries and support for 18 languages, and a 94.6% satisfaction rate for classes. Its Android app has more than 1 million downloads and a 4.6 rating from roughly 47,700 reviews. Published client case studies cite outcomes such as 71% of Maxion Wheels employees reporting productivity gains, a 209% ROI at Iteris, 87% of Grundfos employees improving proficiency across 22 countries, and 96% of Ceibal learners improving or maintaining proficiency. Prior to the 2014 World Cup, Voxy distributed its platform to 40,000 affiliates of the Brazilian car service 99Taxis.

Latest developments

Voxy's site promotes a 2026 Global L&D Benchmark Report and markets programs across 18 languages; its Android app was last updated in July 2026.