StuDocu operates a student-to-student knowledge exchange platform that collects and catalogues study resources and presents them for easy sharing of lecture notes, summaries, and practice materials. The company was founded in college dorm rooms in 2013 and is based in Amsterdam. StuDocu has used prior funding rounds (2015, 2018, 2019) to expand into Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK, and the US and now positions itself as a leader in the student document sharing space. The firm says it is in a "very healthy state" and is pursuing steep growth, aiming to reach all 200 million college and university students worldwide. Recent funding is intended to accelerate global expansion and significantly grow the team while developing more student-focused products. Partech describes the team as data-driven and popular with students, and StuDocu's leadership expects the investment to support continued product and geographic growth. StuDocu operates a website that lets students exchange study documents such as summaries, lecture notes, formula sheets and assignments, with each document listed by educational institution, study and course. The platform uses a rating system to surface the best documents and also supports discussions, personal messaging, study outlines by period/year, and a marketplace for second‑hand study books. The company reports over 500,000 users on the platform. Co-founded in 2013 by Jacques Huppes, Marnix Broer, Lucas van den Houten and Sander Kuijk, StuDocu has focused on building networked study resources and community features. Financially, the company secured external funding and intends to use new capital to expand abroad.

Total raised

$51M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

May 2021