Who invested in Codecademy

5 rounds we have observed, with the 33 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

Edtech

Y Combinator: S11

Funding summaryUpdated 26 Oct 2026

$83Mraised across 5 rounds since 2011, from 5 sources

$2.5MVenture$10MSeries B$30MRound$40MSeries D

Latest round: Series D, $40MFeb 2021
Step-upi: 1.3×
Investors: 33 (1 led)

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The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

20132015201720192021

$2.5MVenture$10MSeries B?Series C$30MRound$40MSeries D

First round: Venture, $2.5M
Biggest round: $40M
Usual gap between rounds: 3.4 years

The rounds

Feb 2021
Series D$40M5 returning
Source recorded
Nov 2016
Round$30M18 new13 returning
Source recorded
Jun 2013
Series CAmount undisclosed1 new
- Bloomberg Beta
From a historical funding record
Jun 2012
Series B$10M5 new1 returning
Reported by techcrunch.com
Oct 2011
Venture$2.5M9 new
Reported by techcrunch.com

Founders and team

From Codecademy's own website: 11 on the team.

Amy Yeh Excellent EmployeeSamantha Zerman Senior Product Manager
Daniel Rodriguez DevOps EngineerAlexander Ross Customer Support Associate
Eva Sibinga Excellent EmployeeSohab Sk Senior Software Engineer
Julie J Excellent EmployeePatrick Kerns Director of Brand and Integrated Marketing
Katrina Agustin Excellent EmployeeShivam Arora Senior Software Engineer
Nhi Pham Excellent EmployeeAmy Resnik Senior Software Engineer
Nitesh Garg Excellent EmployeeAndrew Graves Senior Software Engineer
Prasanna Kumar Reddi Excellent EmployeeShobhit Kuruvilla Senior Software Engineer
Reed Laverack Excellent EmployeeIgor Lima Staff Engineer
Saurav Suman Excellent EmployeeRahul Tyagi Senior Software Engineer
Umang Daga Excellent EmployeeJules DeLeo Conversion Analyst

Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

Venture2011Series B2012Series C2013Round2016Series D2021

Union Square Ventures

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Everyone who backed them

Union Square VenturesVC firm4rounds

Y CombinatorAccelerator3rounds

Index VenturesVC firm3rounds

Slow VenturesVC firm3rounds

SV AngelVC firm2rounds

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ByersVC firm2rounds

Founder CollectiveVC firm2rounds

Thrive CapitalFamily office2rounds

Bloomberg BetaVC firm2rounds

CrunchFundVC firm2rounds

Alexis OhanianAngel2rounds

O'Reilly AlphaTech VenturesVC firm2rounds

Yuri MilnerVC firm2rounds

Bowery CapitalVC firm2rounds

NaspersVC firm1round, led 1

Menlo VenturesVC firm1round

FlybridgeVC firm1round

Collaborative FundVC firm1round

Social CapitalVC firm1round

Naval RavikantVC firm1round

Thrive CapitalAccelerator1round

Kevin ColleranVC firm1round

Dave MorinVC firm1round

Joshua SchachterVC firm1round

Richard BransonAngel1round

Michael ArringtonAngel1round

Saul KleinAngel1round

Jared HechtVC firm1round

Steve MartocciAngel1round

Virgin GroupPrivate equity1round

Aditya AgarwalVC firm1round

Christopher DixonInvestment firm1round

Tim O'Reillyno record of our own yet1round

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Also claim to have backed them

These 4 firms list Codecademy as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.