Udemy pins hopes on govt, corporates to drive growth

Founded in 2010 by Eren Bali, Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco and aims to address the huge deficit of access to quality education globally. The online marketplace allows anyone with the scale and passion to teach to create a course. Learners can evaluate the course and then purchase it as per their requirement. The platform, which as about 40 mn users from 180 nations, has so far seen an investment of about $150 mn.

Irwin Anand, MD, Udemy India, tells us, “India is one of our fastest growing markets. And that was the impetus behind setting up operations here in January this year with an aim to nurture this market. Our clients include students planning to get into the workplace and existing employees who need to update their skill sets. We are currently growing 100 pc Y-o-Y in India and we expect the momentum to continue.”

AI and data science, along with web development, cloud computing, IoT and robot process automation are among the most in demand tech courses on the platform. The tech courses contribute to about two-thirds of the company’s revenue.