Online learning marketplace Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse
(WorldNews Japan)

The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that to deliver educational content has raised some funding to fuel its next stage of growth. Udemy, which provides a marketplace offering some 150,000 different online learning courses from business analytics through to ukulele lessons, has picked up $50 million from a single investor, Benesse Holdings, the Japan-based educational publisher that has been Udemy’s partner in the country. The investment values Udemy at $2 billion post-money, it said. This is a big jump since the startup last raised money, a $60 million round in 2016 that valued it...