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Preply

EdTech · US · preply.com

The world's largest marketplace for live language tutoring, over 100,000 tutors in 180 countries, with an AI co-pilot.

Founders

Kirill Bigai (Ukraine · ♂) — Grew up in Kyiv aspiring to be a global entrepreneur and co-founded Preply in 2012 to build an online tutoring marketplace, serving as CEO.
Dmytro Voloshyn (Ukraine · ♂) — A Ukrainian technical co-founder who built Preply's marketplace platform, algorithmic tutor-student matching, and infrastructure.
Serge Lukianov (Ukraine · ♂) — A Ukrainian co-founder who brought design, product, and operational leadership to build Preply's tutoring marketplace from the ground up.

Date	Round	Amount
Jan 2026	Series D Plus Preply closed a $150 million Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2 billion valuation, becoming a language tutoring unicorn.	$150M
Jul 2023	Funding round Preply, the US-based (Ukraine-born) language-learning marketplace, raised USD70M in equity and debt led by Horizon Capital, with Reach Capital and Hoxton Ventures, to expand its AI-powered tutoring.	$70M
Jul 2022	Series C Ukrainian-founded language-learning marketplace Preply raised a 50M dollar Series C led by Owl Ventures, with Hoxton Ventures, Educapital and Swisscom Ventures.	$49.9M

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