Codecademy
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Codecademy homepage on March 3, 2013
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| Type of business | Private |
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| Headquarters | New York City, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Zach Sims, Ryan Bubinski |
| Industry | Internet |
| Employees | 27 |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 1,447 (September 2016[update]) |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Users | 25 million (January 2016[update]) |
| Current status | Active |
Codecademy is an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript (jQuery, AngularJS, React.js), Ruby, SQL, and Sass, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. The site also offers a paid "pro" option that gives users access to a personalized learning plan, quizzes, realistic projects, and live help from advisors.
Codecademy was founded in August 2011 by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski. Sims dropped out of Columbia University to focus on launching a venture, and Bubinski graduated from Columbia in 2011. The company, headquartered in New York City, raised $2.5 million in Series A funding in October 2011 and $10 million in Series B funding in June 2012. The latest round of funding was led by Index Ventures.Crunchbase reports an additional Series C round of funding for an undisclosed amount, by Bloomberg Beta in June 2013.
On July 22, 2014, the site appeared with a new redesigned dashboard.
In August 2015, Codecademy partnered with the White House, willing to host in-person meet-ups for 600 students from disadvantaged women and minority groups over a twelve-month period.
The platform also provides courses for learning command line and Git. In September 2015, Codecademy, in partnership with Periscope, added a series of courses designed to teach SQL, the predominant programming language for database queries. In October 2015, Codecademy created a new course, a class on Java programming. As of January 2014, the site had over 24 million users who had completed over 100 million exercises. The site has received positive reviews from the New York Times and TechCrunch.
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