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Coursera (COUR) appointed Tom Savage as Chief Legal Officer and Secretary, effective immediately, as part of a planned legal leadership transition following Alan Cardenas’s decision to step back from leading the legal department to focus on his family.
Cardenas, who helped guide Coursera’s evolution as a public company and its combination with Udemy, will remain as General Counsel until the end of 2026 to support Savage’s onboarding and ensure continuity. Savage joins from Red Hat, where he spent nearly a decade in legal leadership roles, most recently as Vice President and General Counsel for Red Hat at IBM.
Coursera (COUR) unveiled Project Helix, an AI-native enterprise skills platform previewed at its FWD 2026 event and expected to be broadly available to enterprise customers in the first half of 2027.
The platform is designed to help organizations close talent gaps by linking skills discovery, adaptive and personalized learning, skills verification, and a portable skills record. Built on the combined Coursera and Udemy ecosystem of more than 30,000 global content partners and instructors, Project Helix will consolidate learning, credentials, and skills intelligence into a single stack, aiming to embed capability building into everyday work while providing verified evidence of workforce readiness.
Coursera (NYSE: COUR) reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $298.6 million, up 60% year over year, with GAAP gross profit of $173.4 million and GAAP net loss of $80.4 million. Non-GAAP net income was $40.4 million, and Adjusted EBITDA was $42.7 million, a 137% increase.
Enterprise revenue grew 118% to $140.0 million and consumer revenue 29% to $158.6 million. Coursera closed its all-stock combination with Udemy on May 11, 2026, and now expects at least $85 million in annual run-rate net synergies by end of 2026. The company raised full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $1.220–$1.245 billion and increased its Adjusted EBITDA margin target to about 14%.
Coursera announced a $100 million strategic investment in AI-native learning company LearnVector and repurchased approximately 16.5 million shares for $90.3 million in Q2, totaling about $140 million under its $500 million authorization.
Coursera (NYSE: COUR) announced a $100 million strategic equity investment in LearnVector, an AI-native learning company founded and led by Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng. The investment currently represents a one-third ownership interest on a fully diluted basis and is intended to advance Coursera’s AI strategy.
LearnVector aims to build one-to-one, agentic AI-powered learning experiences, with initial products targeted for early 2027. Coursera and LearnVector are exploring commercial collaborations that could combine LearnVector’s AI with Coursera’s accredited content and access to over 300 million learners. A special independent board committee unanimously approved the transaction.
Coursera will discuss the investment during its second-quarter 2026 earnings call on July 29, 2026.
Coursera (NYSE: COUR) will release its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2026 after U.S. market close on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. A conference call will follow at 2:00 p.m. PT (5:00 p.m. ET), accessible via Coursera’s investor relations website, which will also host earnings materials and a one-year replay.
Coursera (NYSE: COUR) has posted materials for its supplemental post-merger modeling call on its investor relations website.
The June 23, 2026 call will feature CFO Mike Foley discussing the combined company’s full-year 2026 financial profile following Coursera’s merger with Udemy, which closed on May 11, 2026.
Coursera (NYSE: COUR) will host a supplemental post-merger modeling call on June 23, 2026, at 5:30 a.m. PT / 8:30 a.m. ET.
CFO Mike Foley will review the merged Coursera-Udemy company’s full-year 2026 financial profile. The virtual event will feature prepared remarks and an analyst Q&A, with live and archived webcasts on Coursera’s investor relations website.
Coursera (NYSE: COUR) released its Micro-Credentials Impact Report 2026, showing strong employer, learner, and university support for industry micro-credentials.
92% of US employers are willing to offer higher starting salaries to graduates with micro-credentials, and 79% say these hires show improved first-year productivity. 85% of US graduates with micro-credentials report securing roles aligned to their field within 12 months, while 94% of US employers hired multiple such graduates in the last year. Universities also see strategic value, with 71% of US academic leaders viewing non-adoption as a moderate or significant risk and 86% saying embedding micro-credentials speeds curriculum updates.
Coursera (NYSE: COUR) announced that its board approved a new $500 million share repurchase program for its common stock. The authorization reflects management’s stated confidence in its strategy, future cash flows, and the global skilling opportunity.
The program has no fixed expiration, will be funded from existing cash and operating cash flow, and repurchases may be made opportunistically in the open market or via Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, subject to Rule 10b-18 and other factors at Coursera’s discretion.
Coursera (NYSE: COUR) completed its combination with Udemy to create a large-scale skills platform focused on AI-driven learning and workforce development. The combined company reports expected 2025 annual revenue above $1.5 billion, targets $115 million in run-rate cost synergies within 24 months, and plans a sizable share repurchase program.