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Khan Academy

Khan Academy, Inc.
Nonprofit organizationPlatform company
Khan Academy Inc.Khan Academy Inc

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.

Founded2008United States
HQMountain ViewUnited States
Total funding$6500B1 · 2010
Valuation~$72M annual operating budget (2024)Annual operating budget (nonprofit) · 2024
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01 · About

Khan Academy

Founded 2008 · Mountain View, United States

Founders

  • Salman Khan

    Founder & CEO

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

2 areas · 4 technologies · 1 industries
What they do2Areas
  • Content generation
  • AI platforms
How they do it4Technologies
  • LLM
  • Generative AI
  • RAG
  • Multimodal AI
Who for1Industries
  • Education
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Mountain View · 1 offices · 2 regions
GlobalNorth America
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

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
maturedevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
operationalstatus
$7M
total funding
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)
05 · Portfolio

Products & solutions

1 ai systems
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

3 strategic relations · 3 brands

Strategic relations

3
  • Partnership
    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).
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 8 external links

Classification

  • Statusoperational
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeNonprofit organization+ Platform company

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