UDEMY
, Inc. is an education technology company that provides an online learning and teaching platform. It was founded in May 2010 by Eren Bali, Gagan Biyani, and Oktay Caglar. As of June 2023, the platform has 64 million learners, over 210,000 courses, and more than 75,000 instructors teaching courses in nearly 75 languages, with over 870 million course enrollments. There are more than 14,900 Udemy Business customers, and more than 50% of the Fortune 100 are Udemy Business customers. Udemy Business customers have access to more than 24K courses, out of which more than 10.5K are in English and more than 13.5K are in 14 international languages. Students take courses primarily to improve job-related skills. Some courses generate credit toward technical certification. Udemy attracts corporate trainers seeking to create coursework for employees of their company. Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco, California with hubs in Denver, Colorado; Dublin, Ireland; Austin, Texas; Melbourne, Australia; İstanbul, Turkey and Gurgaon, India.
Udemy is a massive open online course provider, and its learning experience arranges coursework into a series of modules and lessons that can include videos, text notes and assessment tests. Udemy’s video player has functional features like closed captioning and note-taking functions.
Courses cannot be downloaded for offline viewing; however, the Udemy mobile app allows users to view classes offline and to listen to lectures on the move in the app’s podcast mode. Udemy users can also watch courses through Apple TV and Google Chromecast.
Udemy has more than 35 million users learning new skills from 57,000 expert instructors who’ve produced over 130,000 online courses. Tutorials reach students from more than 180 countries in over 65 languages, and thousands of enterprise customers use Udemy for employee training.
The company was launched by Eren Bali, Oktay Caglar and Gagan Biyani in 2010. It is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Denver, Brazil, India, Ireland and Turkey.