Healthcare, higher education and real estate transactions are massive and fragmented markets that multiple new companies have attempted to disrupt over the last decade with limited success. The growing cost of higher education, which grew at a pace well above inflation for years, gave birth to alternative education platforms.
California-based Coursera, Inc. (COUR) is one such e-learning platform for consumers, academic institutions, businesses, and governments. Founded in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, two Stanford Computer Science professors, Coursera has grown to become one of the largest online education platforms, offering courses, certificates, and degrees from top universities and institutions worldwide. It has a strong collaboration with 275+ leading universities and companies across the globe.