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Preply

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Founded: 2012
Headcount: 1,835
Open roles: 120
Last raised: Series D

LOCATIONS

Where they work

Preply offices

Brookline, MA1309 Beacon Street suite 300

FUNDING

Capital raised

Investors

Funding rounds

Series D
West CAP, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Horizon Capital, Indico Capital Partners, Educapital, Hoxton Ventures
$150MJan 21, 2026
Series C
Horizon Capital, Reach Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Owl Ventures
$42MJul 18, 2023
Debt Financing
$28MJul 18, 2023
Series C
Owl Ventures, Orbit Capital, Educapital, Hoxton Ventures, Diligent Capital Partners, Swisscom, Evli Growth Partners, Przemek Gacek
$49.5MMar 29, 2022
Series B
Full In, Owl Ventures, Hoxton Ventures, Evli Growth Partners, Diligent Capital Partners, Acurio Ventures, Point Nine, Educapital, Przemek Gacek, David Helgason, Gary Swart, Niklas Östberg, Arthur Kosten
£25.2MMar 8, 2021
Series A
Hoxton Ventures, David Helgason, Acurio Ventures, Educapital, Diligent Capital Partners, Daniel Hoffer, The Family, Point Nine, Arthur Kosten, Gary Swart, Inovo
$10MMar 29, 2020
Seed
Point Nine, SMRK VC Fund, Diligent Capital Partners, Przemek Gacek, Mariusz Gralewski, RTAventures VC, One Way Ventures, Arthur Kosten
$4MJul 23, 2018
Seed
Hedgehog Fund, Mariusz Gralewski, Przemek Gacek, Digital Future, Techstars, SMRK VC Fund, Xevin Investments, Arthur Kosten, RTAventures VC
$1.3MJun 6, 2016
Seed
Techstars
$120KJun 14, 2015
Convertible Note
Boris Shakhnovich, Vadim Yasinovsky, Semyon Dukach, Torben Majgaard, Vostok Ventures, Eastlabs
$200KAug 30, 2012
Pre Seed
Eastlabs
$20KDec 31, 2011

Funding data via Diffbot, SEC EDGAR filings and company announcements — a round from a filing or announcement links to it

TECH STACK

How Preply builds

Extracted from Preply’s job postings we’ve tracked

×N is how many of Preply’s open roles mention that technology.

Programming Languages

Python×43 Go×9 Java×9 PHP×9 Ruby×9 Scala×9

Analytics & BI

Looker×35 Tableau×17 Microsoft Power BI×8

Cloud Platforms

Amazon Web Services×30 Google Cloud×22

Databases

SQL×29 Snowflake×12

Data Engineering & Warehousing

Apache Airflow×12 Databricks×9 Apache Spark×7

Frameworks & Libraries

Django×15 Node.js×9

DevOps & Infrastructure

Docker/Kubernetes×9

AI & Machine Learning

PyTorch×9

OPEN ROLES

Hiring at Preply

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LEADERSHIP

Founders & key people

Serge Lukianov

Founder at Preply

PreplyTemplateMonsterukrcontextDonetsk National Technical University

Kirill Bigai

CEO at Preply

PreplyFindguruTERRASOFTCreatioVodafoneNokiaKyiv National Economic UniversityIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Dmytro Voloshyn

Founder at Preply

PreplyFreelanceAnheuzer-Busch InBevInstitute of Software System( part of former Institute of cybernetics) Kyiv, UkraineNiederrheinTaras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv