Platzi operates a professional education platform that hosts thousands of courses across web development, programming, digital marketing, English, cryptocurrencies, soft skills and more. The platform serves thousands of companies for workforce upskilling and more than 2.5 million individual students within the Platzi community. Founded by Freddy Vega and Christian Van Der Henst, Platzi has offices in Mexico City, Bogota and San Francisco and employs over 200 people. The company plans to expand its educational offering in Portuguese, English and Spanish and ramp up its offering for businesses. It also aims to continue building strategic partnerships with tech giants and governments and to hire across product development, content development and sales. Platzi recently raised new capital to support these initiatives. Platzi offers Spanish- and Portuguese-language live-streamed classes covering programming, marketing, design and business, with more than 300 courses and 30 new or updated courses produced monthly. Founded in 2013, the company emphasizes community: students answer each other's questions on the platform and attend in-person events in Mexico City and Madrid. It has served one million students to date, reports course completion rates between 50 and 70 percent, and employs 117 full-time staff. Pricing is subscription-based at $29 per month or $299 per year, with volume discounts and payments accepted in 20 currencies. Corporate training currently comprises roughly 20 percent of the business—clients include IBM, Colombia and Facebook—and management aims to grow that to about half of revenue. The company plans to build more classes, including Portuguese-language content to expand in Brazil, and is targeting growth in Spain. Platzi offers livestreamed professional-skills courses aimed at helping entrepreneurs develop the skills to build and grow their businesses. Courses cover programming, design, project and team management, SEO and SEM, legal basics of launching a startup, and term-sheet clause explanations. Content is available in both Spanish and English. The company sells subscriptions at $29 per month or $299 annually. Platzi is led by John Freddy Vega and focuses on practical, topic-specific training for founders and professionals.

Total raised

$70M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Dec 2021