Benesse Holdings Co., Ltd. has signed a comprehensive business alliance agreement in Japan with its subsidiary Benesse Corporation for US $ 5,000 million (approximately ¥ 55 billion * $ 1 110) to further strengthen cooperation with Udemy. Formally agreed on a contract to invest (converted to yen).This makes Benesse Holdings the only operating company shareholder for Udemy.
Udemy was founded in the United States in 2010 with the business concept of "enriching life through learning."Operates "Udemy," a platform that connects "people who want to teach (lecturers)" and "people who want to learn (students)" online, and has expanded to more than 190 countries around the world.Currently, 5.7 instructors are enrolled, and more than 15 video courses on programming languages, business skills, etc. are released.There are more than 5,000 million students worldwide.
Benesse Group signed a comprehensive business alliance agreement with Udemy in 2015. In the "100 years of life", we have promoted the provision of services in the field of recurrent education (re-learning for adults, vocational training) for working adults.
In June 2019, we started offering "Udemy for Business" as a training service for corporations. This service, which allows you to use about 6 courses carefully selected for Japanese users from the "Udemy" courses by subscription (flat rate system), is available from Toyota Motor Corp., Softbank, Mizuho Financial Group, etc. in just eight months. It was introduced to about 3,600 companies including major companies in Japan. In October 8, the Japan e-Learning Awards, which commend excellent content services and solutions that utilize e-learning, were highly evaluated for the novelty and usefulness of "Udemy for Business" and the "Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award".・ "The Japan Electronic Publishing Association Chairman's Award" has been double-winned.
At Benesse Holdings, Study Hacker Co., Ltd., which provides English learning services for working adults, is scheduled to join the group in April 2020, and the capital tie-up with Udemy will continue to strengthen the provision of services in the recurrent education area. It will be an initiative in the background.In the future, based on the analysis of learning history data of working people including individuals and corporations owned by "Udemy", we will develop new services for working people in collaboration with instructors and companies and "connect universities and society by learning". We aim to be a new social foundation in the learning and career of working people, such as the development of career support projects based on the concept of.
