Coursera and Udemy enter a merger agreement valued at around $2.5B

​Coursera and Udemy announced connected Wednesday a landmark merger statement valued astatine astir $2.5 billion, bringing unneurotic 2 of the biggest names successful online learning.

Coursera volition get Udemy successful an all-stock transaction, marking a pivotal infinitesimal successful online education. The companies said the merger volition beryllium finalized successful the 2nd fractional of adjacent year, pending regulatory reappraisal and shareholder approval.

​This statement comes astatine a challenging clip for some Udemy and Coursera, arsenic each faces marketplace headwinds. Despite some companies posting gross maturation successful the 3rd 4th of 2025, their stock prices declined, underscoring investors’ deficiency of assurance successful the platforms.

As a combined company, Udemy and Coursera aimed to reassure shareholders, suggesting that the combined strengths of some platforms could present some contiguous returns arsenic good arsenic semipermanent maturation potential.

“Through this operation with Coursera, we volition make meaningful benefits for our learners, endeavor customers, and instructors, portion delivering important worth to our shareholders, who volition enactment successful the important upside imaginable of the combined company,” Udemy CEO Hugo Sarrazin said successful a statement.

​Additionally, arsenic the online learning marketplace continues to expand—particularly with the adoption of AI—Sarrazin said the merger volition accelerate plans to present AI-powered products.

​Coursera precocious announced an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT app ecosystem and a contented concern with Anthropic. Wednesday’s announcement besides comes conscionable 2 days aft Udemy rolled retired its caller “AI-powered microlearning experience,” which aims to springiness students shorter, personalized lessons that acceptable their engaged schedules.

​The companies besides judge the merger volition amended presumption them to code however AI is transforming the workplace, arsenic AI literacy becomes a request for galore employees. Job postings requiring AI skills person surged successful the past fewer years, and according to 1 survey, 1 successful 3 hiring managers wouldn’t see candidates without them.

“We’re astatine a pivotal infinitesimal successful which AI is rapidly redefining the skills required for each occupation crossed each industry. Organizations and individuals astir the satellite request a level that is arsenic agile arsenic the caller and emerging skills learners indispensable master,” added Coursera CEO Greg Hart.