We’re thrilled to share that Crehana, the skills development platform we’ve backed since its early days, has raised $70M in a Series B led by General Atlantic, with participation from Mountain Nazca, Salesforce Ventures, Rethink Education, ALIVE Ventures, IFC and Dila Capital. It’s the largest Series B ever raised by a Latin American edtech company, coming just months after Crehana’s $13M Series A extension. Six years ago Crehana was a $50k accelerator check in Lima; no Latin American learning/skills company has scaled this far, this fast.
Founders Diego Olcese and Rodolfo Dañino started Crehana in 2015 with a simple observation: Latin America’s talent is abundant, but access to career-relevant skills isn’t. We backed them when Latin American tech was barely on most investors’ maps. By then the pair had already built hundreds of courses on a shoestring, taught by working designers and engineers, and were selling them across Latin America and Spain. Six years on, the platform offers more than 700 courses taught by 400+ industry experts, with individual subscriptions starting at $100 a year – a fraction of the cost of traditional alternatives.
The business has been on a tear. Crehana grew at triple-digit rates through 2020, and more than half of revenue now comes from Crehana for Business, the enterprise arm helping companies across the region build the teams they need.
“We’ve believed since day one that Latin America would produce a generational skills company, and that Diego and Rodolfo would build it. What’s remarkable isn’t just the growth – it’s that Crehana has made world-class learning feel local, affordable and genuinely useful for careers. This round puts the mission on a continental footing.”
Nic, Emerge
The funding will expand the company’s enterprise offering, launch Crehana in Brazil, and develop new AI-driven tools for identifying and closing skills gaps.
Congratulations, Diego, Rodolfo and the whole team. Vamos, Crehana!
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