44 Trending Online Learning Platform Businesses [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: July 24th, 2023

Start An Online Learning Platform

Building an e-learning platform is one of the most profitable business ventures in 2024.

People are looking for ways to occupy their minds indoors, while others want to advance their skills, so they are marketable.

Therefore, the demand for online learning services is still high.

Do you dream of building an online learning platform like Udemy or Coursera?

Starting an online learning platform is easier than you ever thought. Even if you have never written a line of code, you can hire an experienced web programmer to build an interactive online learning platform.

Alternatively, you can purchase a ready-made online learning platform. Regardless of the approach, ensure your online learning platform lets users signup, create accounts, search for courses, and supports secure transactions so the users feel safe.

Looking for some examples of a online learning platform?

Interested in case studies of a successful online learning platform? Check out our full list of success stories.

1. Captcha Challenge…

Website traffic: 77.2M/month

2. miro

Scalable, secure, cross-device and enterprise-ready team collaboration whiteboard for distributed teams. Join 10M+ users from around the world.

Website traffic: 22.3M/month

Learn more about starting an online learning platform:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start an online learning platform?
-> Pros and cons of an online learning platform

Need inspiration?

-> Other online learning platform success stories

Other resources

-> Online learning platform tips

4. itsLearning

itslearning is an LMS that saves time for administrators, streamlines workflow for teachers, and personalizes instruction for students. See more.

Where they're located: Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Website traffic: 40.8M/month

5. VHL Central

Where they're located: Chula Vista, California, USA
Website traffic: 6.28M/month

6. Mindvalley

We’re on a mission to unite the world by teaching wisdom and transformational ideas that our education system ignores. Start living your best life now. All ages welcome.

7. Dataquest

Our hands-on data science courses will help you learn R, Python and SQL from scratch — so you can land your first data science job!

Where they're located: San Francisco, California, USA
Website traffic: 1.29M/month

8. OpenLearning: Teach and learn online today

OpenLearning is a social online learning and MOOC platform that allows universities, colleges and educators to create, design, deliver, market online and blended courses.

Website traffic: 1.06M/month

9. Transforming Learning into business growth

Schoox offers the most powerful and modern learning and knowledge management system for your organization

Website traffic: 840K/month

10. MOOC List

Find with multiple criteria MOOC and Free Online Courses from Coursera, edX, Futurelearn and other top providers in a wide range of subjects. See the upcoming classes (for the next 30 days) and the last inserted or updated MOOC and Free Online Courses.

Where they're located: Kärsämäki, Finland
Website traffic: 520K/month

11. McKissock Learning

McKissock offers Continuing Education (CE) courses for Appraisers, Real Estate Agents, Engineers, & Other Licensed Professionals that are affordable & accredited.

Website traffic: 330K/month

12. Goethe-Universität —

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Website traffic: 3.82M/month

13. 360Learning

We make it easier than ever for teams to create, ship & improve courses together. Experience learning together.

Where they're located: Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs, New Aquitaine, France
Website traffic: 600K/month

14. Valamis

Valamis helps companies with the digitalization of learning to stay competitive and bring an excellent learning experience for their employees.

Where they're located: Kärsämäki, Finland
Website traffic: 310K/month

15. OSIsoft

PI System enables your business to leverage your data infrastructure across the enterprise for Operational Intelligence, analyze and visualize data for transformative insights.

Where they're located: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Website traffic: 270K/month

16. LearnOutLoud.com - Audio Books, Podcasts, & Videos to Learn From

LearnOutLoud.com is your one-stop destination for audio and video learning. Browse over 50,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos.

17. Smart Sparrow

Smart Sparrow is an ed-tech company bringing together powerful eLearning technology and learning design. Our cloud-based courseware development platform is trusted by institutions globally to create active and adaptive online learning experiences.

Where they're located: San Francisco, California, USA
Website traffic: 130K/month

18. IDEO U

IDEO U is an online school where leaders can unlock their creative potential and build their problem-solving skills.

19. Claned

Where they're located: Kärsämäki, Finland
Website traffic: 510K/month

20. insendi

Our core product is a 'Learning experience platform' specifically designed to enable Business Schools to deliver premium online and blended learning programmes. Our platform contains rich pedagogical functionality which enables learning designers to craft engaging and effective ‘human-centred’ learning experiences and via an intuitive, uncluttered interface. To enable our partners to fully realise the potential of the platform, we also provide a range of high-touch, collaborative consultancy and services.

Website traffic: 280K/month

21. Powering the Business of Learning

Discover the power of delivering quality, engaging, white-labeled learning experiences that are mission critical to your business.

Website traffic: 160K/month

22. KelbyOne

Bring your skills into focus with online photography courses. Touch up your work by learning Adobe Photoshop & Lightroom online too. Start for free today!

Where they're located: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

23. BrainCert: Learn or Teach Online

BrainCert's all-in-one educational platform gives you all the tools & expertise you need to learn, teach, and collaborate online - all in one place.

Website traffic: 180K/month

24. backlink.rocks

Backilnk is the Free high DA/PA Social Bookmarking site to drive more traffic to your website. Submit link here and get high quality backlinks.

Where they're located: Rancho Cucamonga, California, USA

25. SALTO-YOUTH

SALTO-YOUTH is a network of 7 Resource Centres working on European priority areas within the youth field.

26. Grovo

Grovo is modern learning that equips employees to thrive. We help L&D teams engage employees and drive their business forward by delivering a relevant library…

27. Frontend Mentor

Improve your front-end skills by building real projects. Solve real-world HTML, CSS and JavaScript challenges whilst working to professional designs.

How much they make: $360K/year
Where they're located: London, UK
How much did it cost to start: $8K
Current team size: 0
Website traffic: 470K/month

We Built A $180K/Year Learn-To-Code Community

Online learning community Frontend Mentor has over 200,000 members, with over 1,500 paid subscribers generating over $15,000 MRR, offering professionally designed challenges to improve front-end coding skills with a freemium business model and a focus on real-life experience.

About

Matt started Frontend Mentor almost 6 years ago

Revenue

Matt grew the business to $30K/month

Costs

It cost Matt $8000 to start the business

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Read by 10,057 founders

28. MentorCruise

MentorCruise connects aspiring tech workers with industry professionals for long-term mentorship in Software Engineering, Product Management, Machine Learning, Design and Business. Find a mentor today!

How much they make: $480K/year
Where they're located: Zürich, Switzerland
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 5
Website traffic: 130K/month

How I Built A $24K/Month Mentorship Marketplace

MentorCruise is a career coaching marketplace generating $24k MRR and processing $1M annually for mentors, with most traffic and sales coming from SEO and organic sources, currently looking to expand to the B2B market.

About

Dominic started MentorCruise about 6 years ago

Revenue

Dominic grew the business to $40K/month

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Read by 5,112 founders

29. Henry

Tu carrera como desarrollador comienza ahora. Estudia Desarrollo Web Full Stack y paga solo cuando consigues trabajo.

Website traffic: 1.03M/month

30. CreativeLive

Online classes in photography, art, design, craft & DIY, marketing, business, and entrepreneurship. Available on-demand 24-7.

How much they make:
Where they're located: Seattle, Washington, USA
Current team size: 67

31. Snapask

Snapask matches you with elite students from your local top universities in a few seconds to help you with homework. Snapask also provides a multimedia library of learning content and courses to enrich your learning experience. Get help with your studies in a snap!

32. Richardson Sales Performance

Discover the secret behind Richardson Sales Performance Training Company's 40+ years of sucess in driving meaningful results for top sales organizations.

Where they're located: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

33. Go1 ･ Thousands of online training courses

Explore the largest curated eLearning library from the world’s top training providers, available for a single subscription - in your platform, or ours.

Where they're located: San Francisco, California, USA
Website traffic: 160K/month

34. Salem-Keizer Public Schools

Salem-Keizer Public Schools are located in the cities of Salem (Oregon’s capital city) and Keizer and educate over 41,000 students in our 65 schools.

Where they're located: Salem, Oregon, USA

35. Home

We are Wisconsin's premier non-profit health care network of 15 hospitals, 1,400+ doctors & physicians, hundreds of clinics and pharmacies covering 31 counties.

Where they're located: Aurora, Colorado, USA

36. DigitalEd

DigitalEd is an online learning company with a simple and resonant purpose; to shape the world through digital learning. Our elearning platform, Möbius, is designed to effectively deliver mathematics-based STEM content.

Where they're located: Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

37. eLearningInside News

eLearningInside, the premier site for EdTech, eLearning and Talent Development provides vetted, well-sourced and investigated news stories. For insightful video, podcasts and articles to inspire and educate, visit eLearningInside.com

Where they're located: Kärsämäki, Finland

38. Gnowbe

Microlearning platform that is disrupting the future of talent and work through a mobile-first, employee experience solution. Drive real behavior change.

Where they're located: San Francisco, California, USA
Website traffic: 130K/month

39. Altitude Learning @School

Where they're located: San Francisco, California, USA

40. LMS365

Join 4+ million users who access learning anytime, anywhere and on any device, in the only learning management system built directly into Microsoft

Where they're located: La Vega, Dominican Republic

41. Hive Learning

Hive Learning's peer learning platform gives organisations a radically faster route to building culture critical skills at scale.

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43. Eduflow

Simple to start, powerful at scale, and proven to build better outcomes for your organization through social and interactive learning.

Where they're located: Copenhagen, Denmark
How much did it cost to start: $0
Current team size: 11

44. Disco

Bring together students in your own branded learning community with chat, memberships and learning experiences like cohort-based courses, on-demand courses and events.

How much they make:
Where they're located: Toronto, ON, Canada
Current team size: 29