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Online Learning Community
About Skillshare Stock
Skillshare operates an online learning community. Skillshare claims to have thousands of video-based classes in a range of creative and business-related disciplines, including topics such as illustration, graphic design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. Classes are taught by teachers paid by Skillshare.
Skillshare was founded in 2010 by Michael Karnjanaprakorn and is headquartered in New York City, NY. Notable investors include Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, and VTF Capital.
Investors
Adobe Systems
Amasia
BoxGroup
Scopely, Dataminr, Plaid, Zipline, Bowery Farming, Blue Apron, Guideline, Boxed, K Health, Hyperscience
Burda Principal Investments
Citrus Ventures
Collaborative Fund
Lyft, Scopely, Procore Technologies, Eat Just, Getaround, Reddit, WHOOP, Tala, Earnest, Upstart
Founder Collective
BuzzFeed, Omada Health, WHOOP, Socure, Shield AI, Andela, Formlabs, Optimizely, Pantheon, Sift
NewSpring Ventures
OMERS Growth Equity
Omidyar Network
Chime, Quikr, Goodera, Aspiration, Handshake, Andela, Prosper Marketplace, d.light design, Skillshare
Oxygen Capital Partners, LLC
Spark Capital
Slack, Affirm, MessageBird, Discord, Rapyd, Cybereason, Plaid, Plume Design, Niantic, Marqeta
Spero Ventures
Union Square Ventures
Coinbase, Upgrade, MongoDB, C2FO, Stash, Twilio, Funding Circle, Etsy, CloudFlare, Lending Club
VTF Capital
Procore Technologies, Thrive Market, Banjo, Skillshare, Surf Air
Funding History
| January 2011 | $550K |
|---|---|
| August 2011 | $5.2M |
| February 2014 | $4.1M |
| May 2016 | $11.9M |
| July 2018 | $21.6M |
| August 2020 | $71.4M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Matt Cooper
Chief Financial Officer
Anand Gandhi
Chief Technology Officer
Ashok Balakrishnan
Press
TechCrunch - Aug, 10 2020
sbt - Jun, 22 2021
christianheilmann - Jun, 9 2021
techrseries - Dec, 16 2020
prweb - Nov, 19 2020
ow - Oct, 29 2020
techstartups - Oct, 6 2020
businessinsider - Sep, 9 2020
vcaonline - Aug, 11 2020
ow - Dec, 8 2021
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