核桃编程 is an online children’s coding education provider focused on ages 4–12 that uses an AI human–machine dual‑teacher teaching model to enable large‑scale personalized instruction. The company has developed its own graphical programming tool, NUTS, and plans to fully integrate it into youth programming competitions. Management says the new funding will be “All in education tech,” with continued investments in AI teaching products, teacher recruitment, and pedagogical research.核桃编程 reports operational metrics including paid students exceeding 3.2 million (as of March 2021), an 85% active attendance rate, a 98% course completion rate, and roughly 29.5 billion recorded learner behavior data points. The company says it achieved the first profitable unit in the kids‑coding sector and claims near‑70% market share in China per iResearch. 核桃编程 has built a >400‑person teach‑prod‑research team and teacher bases covering Jinan, Xi’an and Wuhan. 核桃编程 is a children's programming learning product that launched in September 2017 and delivers Scratch-based instruction via a mix of recorded lessons, real-time Q&A and community interaction. Its to-C product is a series of "programming camps" priced at ¥199 each, with each camp spanning six weeks, including six lessons and a comprehensive project. Each lesson pairs an 8–10 minute recorded video with game-like challenges that let students reproduce and apply programming actions. The company designs lessons around more than 20 sub-tasks per class to teach 3–4 knowledge points and ties those sub-tasks into animated storylines. 核桃编程's founder and CEO is 曾鹏轩, and the team is prioritizing product upgrades focused on finer-grained sub-tasks and animated teaching content to enable more standardized, human–machine interactive instruction. The company announced it completed a RMB 120 million A+ round led by Hillhouse Capital with existing investors XVC and Source Code Capital participating, and said the proceeds will be used for course R&D and building its learning system.

Total raised

$377M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Mar 2021