# Codecademy funding: rounds and investors > Codecademy has raised $83M across 5 rounds since 2011. Investors include Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator and Index Ventures. Every round with its source. Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/codecademy (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United States · [Series D startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies) # 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 summary Updated 26 Oct 2026 **$83M** raised across 5 rounds since 2011, from 5 sources **$2.5M** Venture **$10M** Series B **$30M** Round **$40M** Series D - **Latest round:** Series D, $40M Feb 2021 - **Step-up i:** 1.3× - **Investors:** 33 (1 led) See who backed them ## The funding story Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total. 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 **$2.5M** Venture **$10M** Series B **?** Series C **$30M** Round **$40M** Series D - **First round:** Venture, $2.5M - **Biggest round:** $40M - **Usual gap between rounds:** 3.4 years ## The rounds - **Feb 2021** Series D **$40M** *5 returning* [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) [Slow Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/slow-ventures) [Union Square Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/union-square-ventures) [Thrive Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/thrive-capital-2) Source recorded - **Nov 2016** Round **$30M** *18 new* *13 returning* [Naspers](https://millionrounds.com/fund/naspers) Lead [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) [SV Angel](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sv-angel) [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) [Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kleiner-perkins-caufield-and-byers) [Menlo Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/menlo-ventures) [Flybridge](https://millionrounds.com/fund/flybridge) [Founder Collective](https://millionrounds.com/fund/founder-collective) [Slow Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/slow-ventures) [Union Square Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/union-square-ventures) [Collaborative Fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/collaborative-fund) [Social Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/social-capital) [Thrive Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/thrive-capital-2) [Bloomberg Beta](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bloomberg-beta) [CrunchFund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/crunchfund-3) [Naval Ravikant](https://millionrounds.com/fund/naval-ravikant) [Alexis Ohanian](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alexis-ohanian) [O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/o-reilly-alphatech-ventures) [Yuri Milner](https://millionrounds.com/fund/yuri-milner) [Bowery Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bowery-capital) [Kevin Colleran](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kevin-colleran) [Dave Morin](https://millionrounds.com/fund/dave-morin) [Joshua Schachter](https://millionrounds.com/fund/joshua-schachter) [Richard Branson](https://millionrounds.com/fund/richard-branson) [Michael Arrington](https://millionrounds.com/fund/michael-arrington) [Saul Klein](https://millionrounds.com/fund/saul-klein) [Jared Hecht](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jared-hecht) [Steve Martocci](https://millionrounds.com/fund/steve-martocci) [Aditya Agarwal](https://millionrounds.com/fund/aditya-agarwal) [Christopher Dixon](https://millionrounds.com/fund/christopher-dixon) Tim O'Reilly Source recorded - **Jun 2013** Series C **Amount undisclosed** *1 new* [Bloomberg Beta](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bloomberg-beta) From a historical funding record - **Jun 2012** Series B **$10M** *5 new* *1 returning* [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) [Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kleiner-perkins-caufield-and-byers) [Union Square Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/union-square-ventures) [Alexis Ohanian](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alexis-ohanian) [Yuri Milner](https://millionrounds.com/fund/yuri-milner) [Virgin Group](https://millionrounds.com/fund/virgin) Reported by techcrunch.com - **Oct 2011** Venture **$2.5M** *9 new* [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) [SV Angel](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sv-angel) [Founder Collective](https://millionrounds.com/fund/founder-collective) [Slow Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/slow-ventures) [Union Square Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/union-square-ventures) [CrunchFund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/crunchfund-3) [Thrive Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/thrive-capital) [O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/o-reilly-alphatech-ventures) [Bowery Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bowery-capital) Reported by techcrunch.com ## Founders and team From Codecademy's own website: 11 on the team. - **Amy Yeh Excellent Employee** Samantha Zerman Senior Product Manager - **Daniel Rodriguez DevOps Engineer** Alexander Ross Customer Support Associate - **Eva Sibinga Excellent Employee** Sohab Sk Senior Software Engineer - **Julie J Excellent Employee** Patrick Kerns Director of Brand and Integrated Marketing - **Katrina Agustin Excellent Employee** Shivam Arora Senior Software Engineer - **Nhi Pham Excellent Employee** Amy Resnik Senior Software Engineer - **Nitesh Garg Excellent Employee** Andrew Graves Senior Software Engineer - **Prasanna Kumar Reddi Excellent Employee** Shobhit Kuruvilla Senior Software Engineer - **Reed Laverack Excellent Employee** Igor Lima Staff Engineer - **Saurav Suman Excellent Employee** Rahul Tyagi Senior Software Engineer - **Umang Daga Excellent Employee** Jules 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. **Venture** 2011 **Series B** 2012 **Series C** 2013 **Round** 2016 **Series D** 2021 [Union Square Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/union-square-ventures) [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) [Slow Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/slow-ventures) [SV Angel](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sv-angel) [Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kleiner-perkins-caufield-and-byers) [Founder Collective](https://millionrounds.com/fund/founder-collective) [Thrive Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/thrive-capital-2) [Bloomberg Beta](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bloomberg-beta) [CrunchFund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/crunchfund-3) ## Everyone who backed them [Union Square Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/union-square-ventures) VC firm **4** rounds [Y Combinator](https://millionrounds.com/fund/y-combinator) Accelerator **3** rounds [Index Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/index-ventures) VC firm **3** rounds [Slow Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/slow-ventures) VC firm **3** rounds [SV Angel](https://millionrounds.com/fund/sv-angel) VC firm **2** rounds [Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kleiner-perkins-caufield-and-byers) VC firm **2** rounds [Founder Collective](https://millionrounds.com/fund/founder-collective) VC firm **2** rounds [Thrive Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/thrive-capital-2) Family office **2** rounds [Bloomberg Beta](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bloomberg-beta) VC firm **2** rounds [CrunchFund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/crunchfund-3) VC firm **2** rounds [Alexis Ohanian](https://millionrounds.com/fund/alexis-ohanian) Angel **2** rounds [O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/o-reilly-alphatech-ventures) VC firm **2** rounds [Yuri Milner](https://millionrounds.com/fund/yuri-milner) VC firm **2** rounds [Bowery Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/bowery-capital) VC firm **2** rounds [Naspers](https://millionrounds.com/fund/naspers) VC firm **1** round, led 1 [Menlo Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/menlo-ventures) VC firm **1** round [Flybridge](https://millionrounds.com/fund/flybridge) VC firm **1** round [Collaborative Fund](https://millionrounds.com/fund/collaborative-fund) VC firm **1** round [Social Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/social-capital) VC firm **1** round [Naval Ravikant](https://millionrounds.com/fund/naval-ravikant) VC firm **1** round [Thrive Capital](https://millionrounds.com/fund/thrive-capital) Accelerator **1** round [Kevin Colleran](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kevin-colleran) VC firm **1** round [Dave Morin](https://millionrounds.com/fund/dave-morin) VC firm **1** round [Joshua Schachter](https://millionrounds.com/fund/joshua-schachter) VC firm **1** round [Richard Branson](https://millionrounds.com/fund/richard-branson) Angel **1** round [Michael Arrington](https://millionrounds.com/fund/michael-arrington) Angel **1** round [Saul Klein](https://millionrounds.com/fund/saul-klein) Angel **1** round [Jared Hecht](https://millionrounds.com/fund/jared-hecht) VC firm **1** round [Steve Martocci](https://millionrounds.com/fund/steve-martocci) Angel **1** round [Virgin Group](https://millionrounds.com/fund/virgin) Private equity **1** round [Aditya Agarwal](https://millionrounds.com/fund/aditya-agarwal) VC firm **1** round [Christopher Dixon](https://millionrounds.com/fund/christopher-dixon) Investment firm **1** round Tim O'Reilly no record of our own yet **1** round Missing a round, or an investor who was in one? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=codecademy). ## 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. [Imagine K12](https://millionrounds.com/fund/imagine-k12) Accelerator Per its own site [Owl Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/owl-ventures-3) VC firm Per its own site [Ascolta Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/ascolta-ventures) VC firm Per its own site [Magellan](https://millionrounds.com/fund/magellan) Venture studio Per its own site ## Quick answers about Codecademy ### Who invested in Codecademy? Codecademy's investors include Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Slow Ventures and SV Angel, and 28 more on record. ### How much has Codecademy raised? Codecademy has raised $83M across 5 rounds since 2011. One round did not disclose an amount, so the total is a floor. ### When did Codecademy last raise? Codecademy's most recent round was a Series D of $40M in Feb 2021. ### What was Codecademy's biggest round? Its most recent round, $40M in Feb 2021, is also its largest on record. ### Who backed Codecademy first? Codecademy's first round on record, in Oct 2011, was backed by Y Combinator, SV Angel and Founder Collective and 6 others. ### What stage is Codecademy at? Codecademy's latest named round is a Series D, in Feb 2021. ### Where is Codecademy based? Codecademy is based in the United States. ### Who led Codecademy's rounds? Naspers led the funding round in 2016. ## Companies like Codecademy In the same sector, and raised in the last eighteen months. 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