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Platzi: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

Platzi is an effective online education platform that offers classes on marketing, learn coding, business, and design. It teaches courses on design, marketing, and programming with a 70% completion rate, to over 80,000 students worldwide. All of their classes are live-streamed and recorded, with real-time collaboration among students and industry leaders as teachers. It aims to be the professional home for lifelong learning of advanced skills. Platzi also helps students from all over the world to acquire new, in-demand skills and stay up-to-date with the tech industry. It uses video and interactive lessons to teach tangible skills rather than academic education, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. The platform was founded in July 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

platzi.com LinkedIn San Francisco, United States 5000+ employees
EdTech Education Edutainment Recruiting Training
Total raised
$62.0M
Rounds
1
Latest
Series B
Dec 2021

Platzi has raised $62.0M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent a Series B of $62.0M announced in Dec 2021.

That round is above the $1.5M median round size for Education companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Platzi Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$62.0M
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Series B
$62.0M in Dec 2021
Employees
5000+
reported band
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States

Latest funding round on record: Dec 2021.

Platzi Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series B
$62.0M

Platzi Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
John Freddy Vega
CEO
—

No contact details are on record for this team yet.

Platzi Funding Compared to Other Education Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
1,474
$1.5M
30,148
$7.5M
4,380
$31M

Platzi's latest round of $62.0M is above the median round in Education. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Platzi Funding FAQs

What does Platzi do?

Platzi is an effective online education platform that offers classes on marketing, learn coding, business, and design. It teaches courses on design, marketing, and programming with a 70% completion rate, to over 80,000 students worldwide. All of their classes are live-streamed and recorded, with real-time collaboration among students and industry leaders as teachers. It aims to be the professional home for lifelong learning of advanced skills. Platzi also helps students from all over the world to acquire new, in-demand skills and stay up-to-date with the tech industry. It uses video and interactive lessons to teach tangible skills rather than academic education, in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. The platform was founded in July 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

How much funding has Platzi raised?

Platzi has raised $62.0M across 1 round on record. The most recent is a Series B of $62.0M announced in Dec 2021.

When did Platzi last raise funding?

Platzi's most recent funding round on record is a Series B of $62.0M, announced in Dec 2021.

Who is the CEO of Platzi?

John Freddy Vega is listed as CEO at Platzi.

Where is Platzi headquartered?

Platzi is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

How many employees does Platzi have?

Platzi is in the 5000+ employee band.

How does Platzi's funding compare to other Education startups?

Platzi's latest round of $62.0M is above the $1.5M median round size for Education companies on FundedIQ across 1,474 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Platzi Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Platzi is left off this page rather than filled in.

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