Codecademy is an online coding and technical-skills education platform co-founded by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski, and now owned by Skillsoft following a roughly $525 million cash-and-stock acquisition in April 2022. Codecademy's Twitter Score is 27 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #41,551 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Codecademy was co-founded in August 2011 and grew into one of the more widely used self-paced coding education platforms on the web, offering courses across programming languages, data science, and related technical disciplines. Prior to its acquisition by Skillsoft, the platform had raised approximately $42.5 million in outside funding, per available records through October 2018. Early backers included Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures, O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Founder Collective, Index Ventures, and Naspers, all of whom backed the company before its exit to Skillsoft.
Codecademy has 485,409 followers as of July 2026 on the platform and has published 23,701 posts. The account has been mentioned by 328 accounts, with 1,277 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Codecademy include 153 founders, 35 angel investors, 38 influencers and 18 VCs, among them Loomdart, Alexis Ohanian, Darren Lau, Fred Wilson, Bryan Pellegrino and Austin Griffith.