ExecOnline delivers applied-learning leadership development programs to enterprise clients via a proprietary online platform and partnerships with elite business schools. The company reports participant completion rates above 90%, strong NPS scores, and measurable ROI for clients. Its platform combines on-campus engagement dynamics with scalable online delivery to serve corporate executives. ExecOnline has delivered transformational learning experiences to leaders at over 500 global organizations since 2012. The company plans to invest in sales and marketing, expand its content Experience Library, and enhance its technology platform to accelerate growth. ExecOnline develops and delivers enterprise leadership development programs combining in-person training with online learning, covering strategy, innovation and change, leadership, and operations and finance. Its portfolio includes proprietary offerings and programs run with elite schools such as Berkeley, Columbia, IMD, MIT, Wharton, and Yale. The company has delivered leadership development experiences to more than 250 organizations and 12,000 business leaders, with customers including over 250 corporations, mainly in the Fortune 1000. Founded in 2012 and led by CEO Stephen Bailey, ExecOnline operates from New York City. The company plans to use new funding to further develop proprietary L&D program offerings and to increase sales and marketing efforts. ExecOnline is a NYC-based provider of online leadership development programs that partners with business schools including Berkeley-Haas, Columbia, IMD, MIT-Sloan, Wharton, and Yale. Its university-certified programs cover leadership, strategy, innovation, and operations and combine on-demand video lectures, self-paced application exercises, and live online collaboration with faculty and a global community. Founded in 2012 by CEO Stephen Bailey, the company has delivered leadership development experiences to more than 150 organizations and 7,000 business leaders. ExecOnline intends to use the Series B proceeds to extend sales and marketing capabilities and to grow its suite of enterprise-focused online leadership development offerings. The company works with enterprise clients to tailor dynamic content to corporate objectives and focuses on measurable organizational impact. ExecOnline delivers school-certified online executive education programs in partnership with elite business schools such as MIT Sloan, Columbia Business School and Berkeley‑Haas. Its core product is a proprietary enterprise learning platform featuring on-demand HD video lectures, self-paced application exercises, and live video collaboration with professors and executive peers. The company powers programs that are school-certified and delivered to corporate cohorts. Over 1,000 executives from approximately 70 companies were committed to attending programs with UC Berkeley‑Haas and Columbia, and nearly 400 executives from 35 countries participated in Fall 2014 programs. Led by founder and CEO Stephen Bailey, ExecOnline plans to use new funding to improve offerings, enrich its platform, establish additional business‑school partnerships, expand sales and marketing, and scale operations. ExecOnline offers an end-to-end online executive training platform that partners with top 10 business schools to deliver branded curriculum and interaction with business school professors. The service lets executives complete training from their desks without traveling to campus. It targets Fortune 500 companies that typically send executives to immersive programs at schools like Harvard. Founder Stephen Bailey says the product solves the staffing crunch companies face when executives are away for extended on-campus programs. The startup raised $800,000 in seed funding from The Washington Post and has two companies signed up so far. ExecOnline is slated to go live in January and does not yet have a website; competitors mentioned include degree-focused providers like 2U and platform providers like Moodle.

Total raised

$85M

Funding rounds

5

Latest round

Series D

Latest activity

Apr 2021