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3 years ago

A platform that allows people to create online courses. Currently, it has over 60,000 registered users and 10,000 courses created.

953

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform for educators to create online courses, sell them on their platform, and keep 90% of the revenue.

868

5 years ago

A startup that creates online courses that teach people how to do common home repairs

600

5 years ago

A startup that wants to combine the accessibility and fun of YouTube with the technical accuracy and depth of a college course

277

5 years ago

A “web as a service” product that allows users to create and sell their own online courses. The startup is currently rated 6.0 on the web-hosting site SitePoint.

261

4 years ago

-A software tool that allows anyone to build an online course.

256

5 years ago

A cloud-based service that allows students to easily manage their coursework and assignments.

250

2 years ago

A startup for online courses, currently in beta in New Zealand.

246

5 years ago

Digital training for self-driving cars, with courses that teach people how to become better drivers.

239

5 years ago

A platform that helps users build their own online courses, with the startup already building a library of courses for Udemy.

236

4 years ago

Codeacademy is a web-based learning platform that allows users to complete online courses. The company raised $1.4 million in Series A funding in July 2015.

221

2 years ago

A platform for helping companies and individuals create online courses, with an interface to help people enroll in and complete them.

217

4 years ago

A startup that offers online courses to help people learn languages, with plans to launch in the fall of 2020.

208

4 years ago

Seed funding for a free online course on investing in Chinese stock markets and investing in Chinese businesses.

202

4 years ago

A startup that wants to build a platform that allows companies to create online courses in minutes and distribute them to email lists or social media. They currently have one client with a course on web design that had over 1,000 people sign up for it.

195

3 years ago

This startup is building a tool that helps auto repair shops like the ones in Indianapolis monitor their cars and figure out the best course of action.

194

4 years ago

A new way for producers of e-learning to add interactive content to their courses.

192

5 years ago

This is an online course platform for language learners. The startup is starting with Spanish, and is planning to expand to Italian and French.

183

4 years ago

A medical technology startup that’s been working on a smart bracelet that tracks the wearer’s vital signs and analyzes that data to help determine the best course of action.

180

3 years ago

A startup that makes a free (and open source) online course platform that teaches programming

180

5 years ago

A system for schools and educational institutions to host online courses and one-on-one tutoring.

179

5 years ago

A platform that allows users to easily build online courses without writing code or creating webpages or videos. The company says it has 15,000 customers, including Udemy, Coursera, and Lynda.com, and has raised $1.5M.

177

5 years ago

A startup that allows users to create an online course (and charge for it)

176

5 years ago

A startup that provides tools, courses, and certifications to help people get into real estate investing

175

5 years ago

This is a platform for students to sign up for courses at their college. The company offers an online service through which students can track their courses and take them at their own pace.

167

5 years ago

A startup that provides an online course on how to build an online business

166

3 years ago

A smart system that helps doctors manage their patients’ health data. It could save money because of fewer doctors’ visits, but it could also save lives by letting doctors see other doctors’ patient profiles to see if they’re following the same course of treatment.

166

5 years ago

Idea: A workflow management tool for the development of media-rich e-learning courses

165

5 years ago

A New York-based startup that claims to be the first in the world to offer a virtual reality-based storytelling course designed for the music industry.

164

5 years ago

"A startup that helps companies build, manage, and promote online courses and content. The company is also building a learning platform for companies that want to offer online courses.

163

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service to help people in developing countries access and learn from courses on Udemy

159

5 years ago

A platform for building online courses and learning from them, with support for webinars, video, and interactive learning, as well as with tools for instructors.

159

5 years ago

A startup that sells an online course about economics, with the idea that it will help people make better decisions in life The course will contain interviews with prominent economists

158

5 years ago

A multi-level marketing tool for online courses, which allows users to create courses, and then sell access to them — similar to sites like Udemy.

158

5 years ago

New York City-based startup that helps schools manage their online course catalogs and payments.

157

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for hosting online courses. The startup says it has a 45% course completion rate, with a 6% course drop rate.

156

5 years ago

A startup that sells physical books and online courses to help people with public speaking

155

5 years ago

An online course marketplace that delivers college-level courses online, for a fraction of the price of on-campus courses.

152

5 years ago

A startup that lets people write to their local news outlets and broadcast their thoughts and ideas to the public, akin to what the Snapchat Discover platform does for millennials. The twist, of course, is that these broadcasts are live and recorded.

151

3 years ago

Not a consumer startup, but a tool for fertility centers to manage all the different fertility tests that come in over the course of a woman’s lifetime.

150

5 years ago

A platform for selling online courses and subscriptions, allowing students to take online courses for credit and work towards certifications.

148

5 years ago

A startup that serves as the “Netflix for creative work” for businesses, featuring music and video as well as online-only courses.

147

5 years ago

A startup that provides online courses for students in Africa to help them get college credit

146

5 years ago

A company that develops curriculum and training courses for dog owners

146

3 years ago

A learning platform for in-person and online courses, focusing on what people are taking and how they’re doing it.

144

5 years ago

A startup that offers online courses for people to learn how to become a professional coder

142

5 years ago

A platform that helps colleges and universities manage and share course-related data. The company claims to have over 300 clients, and at present has over 10M enrolled students.

139

5 years ago

A startup that makes it easy for students to make their own online courses, based on the business model of Udemy. It gives them the ability to create their own courses and sell them.

139

5 years ago

This startup is a “personal budgeting solution” for freelancers. The idea is to make it easier to see how much money you’ve made and how much you’ve spent over the course of your career and to make it easier to plan spending.

137

5 years ago

A place where you can find courses in the US on everything from wine to yoga to machine learning.

137

5 years ago

A company that builds smartphone apps for students, giving them access to course materials on the go.

137

5 years ago

The company wants to provide the infrastructure to help universities and other institutions run their own online courses. The platform includes a series of free courses, exams, and quizzes.

132

3 years ago

A techie startup that wants to help people create and sell online courses, with the promise of it being more effective than YouTube.

128

5 years ago

A “HR SaaS” for companies looking to manage employee training by creating custom courses, delivering them to an employee’s desktop, or by hooking up with an instructor.

126

5 years ago

This company wants to be a payment platform for businesses that want to accept cards from both Visa and Mastercard, including Square of course.

124

3 years ago

A shopping cart for people selling books and courses.

124

5 years ago

A platform for building and selling online courses. The startup is a Y Combinator alum.

122

5 years ago

This startup helps small businesses build websites from scratch using HTML5, CSS, and Google Fonts. The startup takes care of things like a logo, social media, fancy blog posts, and of course, the website itself. The startup is based in New York.

121

5 years ago

Vela is an online tool that helps teachers organize and track student progress in their courses and subjects, in an effort to improve how teachers teach and students learn.

118

5 years ago

As an online continuing education course for lawyers, this startup is hoping to enable higher education for lawyers without charging tuition.

115

4 years ago

A web app that helps users find the best online courses to take based on their goals, learning styles, and learning preferences.

115

2 years ago

An online platform for teachers that lets them create course materials, send them to students, and get paid when they use it.

113

5 years ago

A developer of software that teaches programmers how to be better at data visualization, developing and releasing new courses in the field.

111

3 years ago

A tool that helps you create a “lifecourse” — a timeline of your life, from birth to death, to help you make decisions about how you want to spend your time.

111

4 years ago

A tool that helps you manage your courses and courses of study, along with the borrowing and loan information for each. It’s currently available on the web, but will be coming to iOS and Android.

109

5 years ago

A software platform aimed at building and managing community-focused online courses.

104

4 years ago

A platform that allows people to make their own films, with courses and software to help them make their own learning videos.

103

5 years ago

Of course, that’s just a sampling. And some of these companies are still in the idea stage, so they might not turn into actual businesses. But this list shows that there’s a lot of revenue to be made building new tools for the online world. Now it’s up to entrepreneurs to decide what sorts of products to build.

102

5 years ago

The startup is bringing online education to the masses with a platform for on-demand classes, live courses and video tutorials. Users pay via Paypal and can choose between monthly and annual memberships.

101

5 years ago

This startup helps companies build, price and sell online courses. It charges from $5 to $50000 per month, and has seen $1.5 million in tuition so far. The company says they’ve built over 10,000 online courses.

98

4 years ago

A video game that teaches how to drive a car. Players control a virtual car and drive around a course, following the rules of the road, and avoiding obstacles such as other cars and pedestrians. The game is meant for the very beginning of novice drivers, teaching them to drive without the risk of crashing.

95

4 years ago

A startup that helps people learn to speak other languages. The startup aims to use gamification and gamified courses to help people learn foreign languages.

94

4 years ago

A subscription-based service that provides fake fake recipes to help people cook healthier meals. The startup says it can help people make 300-400 meals with these fake recipes, compared to the 10-15 meals they’d make in the normal course of their day.

94

4 years ago

A platform for middle school and high school students to work on programming problems and then link that work with online learning platforms like Khan Academy and Coursera.

92

4 years ago

A platform for online live video courses with prices starting at $99/month.

90

3 years ago

Helping customers build personalized video courses based on their interests, skills, and abilities.

90

4 years ago

Sites like Coursera and Udacity are popular for learning to code, but the Code Academy wants to do it better. It’s a specialised course for those who have already graduated from bootcamp.

87

4 years ago

A content creation platform that helps you make things like online courses

86

2 years ago

In late 2013, Y Combinator launched a course in the field of web development. The course is taught by Sam Altman, founder and president of Y Combinator. Some of the instructors are Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Chris Dixon, Michael Seibel, and Jared Friedman.

84

4 years ago

A company building a platform to create, manage, and track online course content.

83

2 years ago

Hitting the $1 million to $2 million mark in funding over the course of 12 months is fairly rare for a startup. But it’s true in the world of payday loans. Money Mart has managed to do it for the past two years. They’re a next-generation bank that offers storefronts, mobile apps and online banking as well as traditional loans. They’re growing in Canada, the UK and the US.

83

4 years ago

A company that helps people easily produce and sell online courses. The company is currently accepting applications for its first product, a learning platform for coding.

82

3 years ago

A tool for creating and publishing online courses, with the goal of simplifying the way the world learns.

82

3 years ago

An e-learning platform for teachers, meant to help them customize coursework to fit the interests of different students.

82

4 years ago

A platform for online courses, such as Udemy and Coursera, to operate in a legal grey area. The company wants to help them get more funding and reduce risk of litigation.

81

3 years ago

A startup for online courses to teach skills like coding, design, and writing.

81

4 years ago

A tool that can determine the best course of action to take after receiving a medical diagnosis.

79

3 years ago

A startup that uses AI to help companies with their HR processes. They want to be able to help firms streamline processes by detecting signals and patterns in data, then generating recommendations on the best course of action.

78

4 years ago

A cloud-based music course marketplace that takes a subscription model. The startup is also building a platform to help artists control their rights, manage their catalog, and sell their music.

77

4 years ago

A suite of tools for building user-friendly online courses

77

4 years ago

A platform for building and selling online courses. Anchor University is a platform for instructors to collect payments for their online course content. It’s currently in Y Combinator, which has over $2.5M in revenue and has over 4,000 seats booked.

77

4 years ago

A platform to help users get paid for sharing their professional expertise. Users provide their expertise and get paid for it, and can also create paid courses.

76

4 years ago

Online training platform that builds on the idea that many different companies and organizations would like to train their employees and customers on the same topic and that it is difficult and expensive to purchase and maintain all these training materials. The company creates a marketplace of these courses and delivers them to people, allowing them to take the training on-the-go.

76

3 years ago

A startup that lets anyone create and sell online courses, with course creators getting a 70% commission on sales.

75

3 years ago

A company that aggregates content from other sites and translates it into different formats to make it easier to consume. For example, if a company wanted to provide their employees with a video training course, they could hire the founders of Istok to help out. It’s a way to make content more accessible to those who can’t read or watch the language of the original site.

74

3 years ago

A startup that aims to educate students about college debt and financial aid, as well as cover all of the free services they offer, like money management course and career counseling.

73

3 years ago

A business-to-business service that helps companies set up and manage online courses. The company says they have more than 50,000 users, and more than $15 million in annual revenue.

73

3 years ago

A software startup that will provide web-based curricula for online courses.

72

3 years ago

Helping companies sell online courses.

72

4 years ago

A platform to create and distribute high-quality, curated content for marketing and education, including online courses and videos.

71

3 years ago

A platform that helps companies create custom online courses to help their sales teams learn more about their customers.

71

3 years ago

Building a platform for educators to create their own online course and make it available to their students.

71

4 years ago

A company that builds automated tools for teams that create online courses.

70

4 years ago

Provide an online marketplace for online courses to give students more choices when deciding what to take.

70

4 years ago

A video-based training software that lets instructors teach interactive video courses to anyone via a mobile device.

70

4 years ago

A toolkit for building online courses. The startup is using pre-built templates and templates specific to the type of course.

70

4 years ago

A company that decides what online course you should take next, making it easier for people to learn new skills.

69

4 years ago

A web-based platform that helps students and students’ parents plan and sign up for college courses.

69

3 years ago

A platform for online learning communities, including online courses and private tutorials.

69

3 years ago

This is a startup that works with established brands to offer online courses and plans to monetize with a model of selling courses to a student’s family (like an on-demand learning service like Udemy or Coursera) and then charging them a commission fee. The startup has already built a few courses, and is also working on an AI-based chatbot for teachers.

69

3 years ago

A tool that helps students plan their courses and track their progress, with a focus on younger students.

68

4 years ago

A platform for college students to start a video production or podcast company, with a free online course for budding producers.

67

3 years ago

A startup which aids in the creation and distribution of school, college and university course materials

67

3 years ago

A community for online learning. The startup wants to be the next big thing in online courses.

66

4 years ago

A digital tool for US colleges to create and manage their course management systems, from scheduling to tracking enrollment.

65

4 years ago

A startup that helps people set up and manage their retirement accounts, with a goal of saving everyone in their 20s and 30s $100,000 over the course of their working lifetime.

65

3 years ago

A platform for online courses for individual learners (no classes in physical space). Their focus is on a membership-based model, in which users can access a library of content for a fee.

65

3 years ago

An email-based education platform that helps high school students find scholarships, internships, and college courses.

65

4 years ago

A platform that allows people to create and sell training videos in the same way they can create and sell online courses. The startup is looking to start by offering training videos on basic coding and design to supplement college classes.

64

3 years ago

B2B for online tutoring, a platform for companies to put their employees through online courses.

64

3 years ago

A company that lets companies publish their best practices as courses on their website.

64

2 years ago

A startup for online courses, where students can learn almost anything from software development to accounting.

64

4 years ago

A startup that helps college students decide which courses to take and which ones to skip. They’re currently building a prototype app with over 5,000 students and 300 universities.

63

4 years ago

A two-week online course for online workers to improve their writing and editing techniques.

63

2 years ago

A startup that helps people create their own online courses, and helps them interact with students.

63

4 years ago

A company that helps people learn conversational Portuguese online, through online courses.

62

3 years ago

This company is building a platform that allows people to create their own online courses on topics they’re interested in, like learning how to give a speech or improve their english.

62

4 years ago

A company that makes “online courses for learning,” through which they claim to offer more material than traditional universities. They offer more than 1,000 courses on topics like machine learning, data science, and more.

59

4 years ago

Gaps in the online education market that exists between small business and the government. The startup is working on developing a course that meets the needs of small business, and is working on a solution that ensures course completion in a standard time frame.

59

3 years ago

A product for online learning platforms, like Coursera and Udacity, that connects every student and tutor face to face. It aims to simplify the e-learning experience for beginners and help students avoid the “ beginner’s paradox”.

58

3 years ago

A platform to help content creators set up online courses or consulting services, with a simple platform for companies to sell a whole class, or a one-on-one session.

58

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for organizing course reading materials, meant to help students read more.

55

3 years ago

An education startup that brings learning to the mobile era by allowing anyone anywhere to use its mobile learning platform and learn a specific set of skills, like how to build a chair, via a video course.

55

3 years ago

The startup is building a language course that uses text-to-speech technology and audio technology to teach languages.

55

3 years ago

An online education platform for international students and teachers. The startup is working on a college in the US that offers free online courses to international students.

55

3 years ago

A startup that makes online-only courses available to enrolled students, who can watch them during a class or at their own pace.

54

2 years ago

This startup sells a series of online courses on startups and entrepreneurship, and is focused on the US.

53

4 years ago

A startup that wants to make it easier to share your training courses with the world, giving them a way to host and distribute training courses to a global audience

52

5 years ago

A startup that provides a service for people to create a course about something they’re an expert in and then sell that course to students

51

4 years ago

A tool that lets people “build and own” their own online courses, and then makes it easy for people to pay for courses.

49

2 years ago

A library of online courses to teach people how to use the web.

48

2 years ago

“A visual ‘cheat sheet’ to help you learn new technologies and speed up your development”. The company is building a library of technology stacks, and launching a platform for customers to customize a course that will get them ready for new technology launches.

46

2 years ago

A platform for students to earn college credit via workshops and online courses. Currently, the company is focused on the summertime.

44

3 years ago

A web-based learning platform for business owners that allows users to build online courses on top of their own blog or website.

43

2 years ago

This startup is building a platform that allows users to sign up for custom learning experiences and courses. The company says it has 700,000 users and is backed by Google Ventures, Y Combinator and others.

43

5 years ago

Idea: Online courses for teaching the basics of programming

42

2 years ago

Online education company focused on video-based courses.

41

3 years ago

A gym membership that allows you to pay for an entire year in advance, with payouts over the course of the year. People can buy a membership in the first week of the month and then schedule payments for the rest of the year.

40

3 years ago

A company that helps companies help employees find the right classes for them to take, such as online courses or online learning tools.

38

2 years ago

A tool for computer science and data science courses that wants to become a marketplace where students can find tutors, and get training and advice on their coursework.

38

2 years ago

A new way of connecting people that want to take a Harvard Business Review course together. It lets people register for the classes and connect with each other via a social network.

37

3 years ago

A global software company that generates software for startups, including mobile health startups, AI startups, and online courses. They also recently launched an online startup mentoring service.

34

3 years ago

The startup builds tools to help shoppers make better decisions when buying everyday items. The tool will be used on a smartphone app, with options to allow users to see how a certain item performs over the course of a year, or compare the cost of a branded product to its generic alternative.

34

2 years ago

A company that sells online courses aimed at helping people learn how to use LinkedIn.

34

2 years ago

A smartphone app that tracks student progress and helps students keep up with their college-level courses

33

2 years ago

This startup is taking a page out of the digital book-publishing world and selling ebooks and courses across multiple platforms, including mobile.

32

2 years ago

A tool for connecting professors to students who want to contribute to their coursework.

29

2 years ago

A platform for online education that is both personalized and tailored to the individual. This is a startup that wants to make learning more social, with courses that can be shared not just among students and their instructors, but also with Facebook friends and the world at large.

28

2 years ago

A solution for educators to create and print custom textbooks. The startup is testing it by selling a single textbook that allows students to move through a course at their own pace.

27

2 years ago

A tool for students to create and manage their personal course catalogs in a way that makes sense. It’s a SaaS product that has been used by over 600,000 students nationwide.

27

2 years ago

A digital research platform to help students find the best online courses to study specific subjects.

27

2 years ago

A startup that wants to help people manage all the different ways they can make money online, from selling products to creating courses.

27

2 years ago

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26

5 years ago

Idea: Course builder for the World Economic Forum

24

5 years ago

Idea: A startup that aims to help people learn to code through a combination of chatbots and online courses The company’s founders say they’re currently working on an AI-powered chatbot that can make coding exercises more interesting

16

2 years ago

A company that creates a marketplace for online courses that teach specific skills

15

2 years ago

A startup that launched in August 2020 and plans to use AI to democratize online education by having online courses be open for anyone to take, without having to pay a fee.

13

2 years ago

A startup that is building a mobile-first, cloud-based system for creating, sharing and managing online courses for teachers.

10

5 years ago

Idea: A platform for businesses to create custom e-learning courses Their clients include IBM, Lufthansa and CNBC

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5 years ago

Idea: LiveEdu is building a platform that helps people learn how to create online courses They have 10,000 creators who have built courses on the platform and are raising $120,000 a month

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that helps subscription companies sell online courses more effectively. The company is currently working with companies like The Great Courses, Lynda and Udemy, offering their software at no cost.

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5 years ago

Idea: A startup that allows users to create and sell their own video courses. The service is free, and it makes money by taking a cut of any courses that users sell.

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5 years ago

Idea: This startup is building an anonymous social network that focuses on autodidactic content, like tutorials and courses.

-1

5 years ago

Idea: A startup for training and certification courses for Google’s G Suite productivity tools.

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7 days ago

A startup connecting freelance educators with corporations for on-demand micro-courses delivered via SMS and voice notes.

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