Duolingo
Duolingo (Nasdaq: DUOL) is an online social platform that teaches users a new language while they simultaneously translate content across the web.
Duolingo (Nasdaq: DUOL) is an online social platform that teaches users a new language while they simultaneously translate content across the web.
Their Growth Story
Duolingo’s mission is to translate the web into every language, as well as make language education accessible to the masses.
Co-founded in 2011 by Luis von Ahn, the developer of CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA, and Severin Hacker, Duolingo launched to the public in June 2012. The company is based in Pittsburgh, Pa.
"CapitalG has been a uniquely amazing partner for Duolingo. Over the past five years, CapitalG and experts from Google have helped us with dozens of issues, ranging from helping to recruit and even interview key team members, to helping to acquire deep local knowledge of international markets, to setting up paid marketing efforts, to training large groups of our engineering team, to analyzing our revenue projections. 10/10 would recommend!"
Luis von Ahn, Co-Founder and CEO