COURSERA Overview
Company Headquarters: US
Founded: 2012
Workforce: ~500
Company Working: Coursera is one of the largest online learning platforms for higher education. Around 190 of the world’s top leading universities and industry educators have partnered with Coursera to offer degrees and courses that have empowered over 43 million learners around the world to achieve their career goals. Around 2000 companies have used its enterprise platform Coursera for Business to transform their enterprise talents. Coursera is backed by various investors including New Enterprise Associates, Learn Capital, SEEK Group, GSV Capital, and Kleiner Perkins. The company’s online platform is serving in every region of the globe.
Strategy
Coursera makes strategic partnerships with governments and businesses to expand its presence globally. It helps the government to provide key skills to the students and enable them to get a job easily and reduce unemployment. To attract more customers, it provides free courses to the students so that they can try and enrol themselves for further courses by paying a subscription fee against the certification.
