{"id":354452,"date":"2025-12-17T17:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354452\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:06:12","slug":"coursera-to-buy-udemy-creating-2-5-billion-firm-to-target-ai-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354452\/","title":{"rendered":"Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Dec 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Online education platform Coursera said on Wednesday it would buy rival Udemy in an all-stock deal, valuing the \u200bcombined company at $2.5 billion, as the industry consolidates after a post-pandemic \u200cslowdown and heightened investor scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Udemy shareholders would receive 0.8 shares of Coursera for each held, \u200cvaluing the company at about $930 million, according to Reuters calculations. Coursera shares were up about 8%, while Udemy jumped nearly 28%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">The deal unites two of the largest U.S.-based online learning platforms at a time when consumer course enrollment growth \u2060has cooled from pandemic \u200chighs, prompting companies to seek scale and pursue enterprise clients and more predictable subscription revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Coursera and Udemy bet that a \u200dcombined platform will be better positioned to capture corporate demand for workforce training, particularly in <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:artificial intelligence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, data science and software development, as employers invest in reskilling \u200bworkers amid rapid advances in generative AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Based on Coursera&#8217;s last close, the \u200coffer implies a price of $6.35 per Udemy share, a premium of roughly 18.3%. The companies said the deal is expected to close in the second-half of next year, subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Coursera, which partners with universities and institutions to offer degree programs and professional certificates, has increasingly \u2060focused on enterprise customers, while Udemy operates a \u200bmarketplace of independent instructors selling individual courses \u200band subscriptions to businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Despite companies pitching AI upskilling as a major growth opportunity, investors have remained cautious on the sector. Shares \u200dof online education \u2060companies have lagged broader markets amid concerns over competition, pricing pressure and uncertain returns from AI-related investments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">Udemy shares have fallen about 35% so \u2060far this year, while Coursera is down roughly 7% over the same period, leaving \u200cboth companies trading well below their post-IPO highs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-7hmkaz\">(Reporting by Akash Sriram \u200cin Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Online education platform Coursera said on Wednesday it would buy rival Udemy in an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,156082,176066,74,176067],"class_list":["post-354452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-coursera","tag-online-education","tag-technology","tag-udemy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}