Platzi
Platzi is a YC Winter 2015 (W15) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA; Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile; Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico; Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain; Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina; Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia; Lima, Callao Region, Peru; Remote. Team of 300.
About Platzi
Summary
Platzi builds an online technology school for Spanish-speaking professionals, teaching courses in programming, design, and marketing. Courses are led by industry practitioners and include real-time student collaboration, replacing fragmented self-study and traditional classroom training. The platform targets lifelong learners seeking to advance technical and creative careers.
Business model
Subscription access to the course library
Go-to-market
Platzi serves individual professionals directly, with learners enrolling through a self-serve subscription on the platform.
From the Y Combinator listing
Latin America's School of Technology
Platzi cracked online education. It teaches courses on design, marketing and programming with a 70% completion rate, to over one million students worldwide. The classes include real-time collaboration among students and industry leaders as teachers. It aims to be the professional home for lifelong learning of advanced skills.
Facts
- Education / Education
- San Francisco, CA, USA; Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile; Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico; Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain; Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina; Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia; Lima, Callao Region, Peru; Remote
- 300
- Active
- Growth
Founders (2)
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