COUR

Coursera, Inc.

An online learning platform that brings together courses, certificates, and degrees from universities and companies like Google and IBM for learners around the world. It was founded in 2012 by two Stanford computer science professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, after one of their machine-learning classes unexpectedly drew over a hundred thousand students. Amusingly, the company was first incorporated as "Dkandu" before settling on its now-familiar name.