Which online education startup was co-founded by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller? Coursera.
The company began after Ng and Koller, then computer-science professors at Stanford University, put their courses online in 2011. The unexpectedly large response helped convince them that university-level teaching could reach a worldwide audience through the internet. They founded Coursera in 2012 and soon brought other universities onto the platform.
Coursera became one of the best-known massive open online course providers, offering classes, professional certificates, and eventually online degrees. Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania were among its first academic partners. It later expanded beyond individual courses into job-focused training and credentials.
A common mix-up is confusing Coursera with Udacity, Udemy, or edX. Those are separate online-learning companies, although they operate in the same broad education-technology market. Ng is also associated with Google Brain and later DeepLearning.AI, while Koller became known for work in machine learning and founded Insitro; neither association changes Coursera's founding answer.