Maven is a new platform for cohort-based courses created by the founders of Udemy, altMBA, and Socratic.
Maven empowers the world’s experts to offer cohort-based courses directly to their audience.
Maven was founded in 2020 by Gagan Biyani, Wes Kao, and Shreyans Bhansali. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Maven is building a platform that enables the best creators in the world to build the most engaging and interactive courses. Maven partners with the world’s best instructors to offer live, online, community-driven courses to transform your career.
Maven centralizes the suite of tools needed to create and run a cohort-based course so that instructors can focus on teaching.
Maven is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Tet Ventures, Dunce Capital, and others. The company raised $20M in Series A round on May 20, 2021. This brings Maven's total funding to $25.1M to date.