American nonprofit education organisation founded 2008 by Salman Khan. Mission: free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Over 155M registered users, library covering math/science/humanities/coding/SAT.
founded 2008 · Bill Gates + Google grants (2010-2012)
2008founded
~200 employees (2024). Nonprofit with an annual operating budget of ~$72M.employees
$7Mtotal funding
Bill Gates + Google grants (2010-2012)latest round
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1 · 2010
Bill Gates + Google grants (2010-2012)September 2010Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google.orgSeptember 2010: Gates Foundation $1.5M grant + Google $2M grant = pivotal support that allowed Sal Khan to leave his hedge fund role and go fulltime nonprofit. MIT/Harvard MBA graduate starts as CEO in Mountain View from a garage.
~$6.5M (Gates Foundation $1.5M + Google $2M + other grants)
OpenAI (2022-2023): Khan Academy was one of OpenAI's earliest enterprise partners for GPT-4 use case. Sal Khan received early access late 2022, demonstrated Khanmigo at TED Talk 2023 (March).
Partnership
MicrosoftMicrosoft (2024): sponsoring free access to Khanmigo for Teachers in 44 countries globally. Strategic partnership for democratization of educational AI.
Partnership
Key philanthropists and grant donors: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google.org, Bank of America, AT&T, Broad Foundation, Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO), Ann and John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins partners), Elon Musk (Musk Foundation donation 2015).
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