Preply

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 5, 2026

Overview

Preply is a global human-led, AI-enabled language-learning marketplace and B2B language-training platform. It connects learners and businesses with independent tutors for personalized live lessons, while providing scheduling, video-classroom, learning, and AI tutoring tools. The platform has 100,000+ tutors teaching 90+ languages in 180 countries.

Primary product

Online one-to-one language tutoring marketplace with live video lessons, tutor discovery/matching, scheduling, learning tools, and an AI-powered tutoring co-pilot; also Preply Business for enterprise language training.

Founded

2012

Headquarters

Brookline, Massachusetts, United States (with Barcelona described by the careers site as the headquarters and largest employee hub; public sources are inconsistent).

Team size

700+ employees (official company/careers pages, 2026); third-party profiles report materially higher figures that appear unreliable or may mix tutors and employees.

Work style

Hybrid

Industry

Education technology / Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

Online language learning, tutoring marketplace, educational and training services (B2C and B2B)

Offices

Brookline/Boston, Massachusetts, United States

New York, United States

Barcelona, Spain

London, United Kingdom

Kyiv, Ukraine

Business model

Two-sided marketplace connecting learners and tutors

Commission/platform economics on tutor lessons

Consumer paid lesson packages or recurring lesson plans

B2B/enterprise language-training contracts

AI-enabled software and learning-tool upsell

Funding

Stage

Late-stage venture-backed / unicorn; Series D

Total raised

$299M

Latest round

Series D · Jan 2026

Latest amount

$150M

Series D

Jan 2026 · WestCap

$150M

Debt financing

Jul 2023

$28M

Series C extension (equity)

Jun 2023 · Horizon Capital

$42M

Series C

Mar 2022 · Owl Ventures

$50M

Series B

Mar 2021

$35M

Series A

Mar 2020

Seed

Jul 2018

$4M

People & investors

Leadership

Kirill Bigai

Co-founder and CEO

Dmytro Voloshyn

Co-founder and CTO

Charlie Wickers

Chief Financial Officer

Aurélien Pallain

Chief Operating Officer

Josh Crossick

Chief Product Officer

Sofia Tavares

Chief Brand Officer

José Ferreira

Chief of Staff and VP of Corporate Strategy

Francine Pinto

VP of Customer Experience

Kyra Srisukri

VP of Performance Marketing & Growth

Anusha Mahalingam

VP of People Strategy

Simon Mizzi

VP of Product

Deepti Sahi

VP of Product

Toni Sfeir

VP of B2B

Ana Peleteiro Ramallo

VP of Data and Applied AI

Robin Bigio

VP of Design

Founders

Serge Lukianov

Co-founder (reported by Business Insider/third-party sources)

Investors

Diligent Capital Partners

Educapital

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Evli Growth Partners

Flashpoint Venture Capital

Índico Capital Partners

Work & culture

Preply describes its culture through Ambition, Boldness, and Collaboration, with an emphasis on learning, experimentation, operational impact, and human connection. Its 2026 careers page reports that 92% of employees are proud to work there and 89% would recommend it.

Work style

Hybrid

Compensation

The company advertises competitive salaries, stock options, flexible compensation, health insurance, and wellness benefits. Publicly available evidence does not establish a reliable company-wide salary range; tutor earnings are independently set and vary by subject and experience.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Stock options

Monthly Preply platform allowance

Health insurance

Wellness benefits

Flexible compensation program

Learning and development days

Enterprise OpenAI licenses

After-work gatherings and off-sites

Product & market

Pricing

Tutor-set pricing with paid trial/lesson booking and recurring or fixed-hour lesson plans; enterprise pricing is sales-led. Prices vary by tutor, language, subject, and package.

Differentiators

—Large global marketplace of 100,000+ tutors
—Live one-to-one human instruction rather than an app-only self-study model
—90+ languages and 180-country reach
—AI is positioned to augment tutors and personalize learning, not replace human instruction
—Flexible tutor discovery, scheduling, and lesson formats
—Consumer marketplace plus enterprise Preply Business offering

Technology

AI and machine learning

AI tutoring/co-pilot tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Cloudflare

Datadog

Sentry

Vault

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

GitHub

Helm/Helmfile

AWS Lambda

React Native

React

Storybook

Playwright

Vitest

Jest

Customers

Individual language learners worldwide

Businesses and enterprise teams

Datadog

GroupM

Bain

Competitors

Duolingo

Cambly

GoStudent

Busuu

Voxy

Wyzant

Babbel

VIPKid

Novakid

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$400M–$500M annually (third-party estimate; not company-reported). Older evidence reported approximately $50M revenue in 2021.

Estimated monthly visits

23.3M

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Oct 2022

Preply acquired LessonLeap, a group-learning platform for children; deal terms were undisclosed.

Source

Acquisition

PitchBook reports an additional acquisition of Lingo Live; date and terms were not publicly established in the retrieved evidence.

Source

Other

May 2026

Preply announced its first employee tender offer. This is a liquidity/capitalization event rather than a reported distress signal.

Source

Latest news

Preply Raises $150 Million to Shape the Future of Education Through Human-Led, AI-Enhanced Learning

Preply · Jan 2026

Preply announced a $150M Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2B valuation, bringing reported total funding to approximately $299M and supporting AI, product, engineering, and global expansion.

Preply Nearly Triples Valuation to $1.2 Billion in Latest Round

Bloomberg · Jan 2026

Coverage of Preply’s $150M WestCap-led round and near-tripling of valuation to $1.2B.

Ukrainian-founded language learning edtech Preply hits $1.2B valuation with $150M Series D

Tech.eu · Jan 2026

Reports the Series D, EBITDA-positive status, AI strategy, and continued expansion of the Barcelona-centered global operation.

Preply hits unicorn valuation with $150m funding round

Sifted · Jan 2026

Independent coverage describes the $1.2B valuation, WestCap-led financing, offices in New York, Kyiv, Barcelona, and London, and Preply’s human-tutor differentiation.

Preply, the language app known for its live tutors, closes out Series C at $120M and doubles down on AI

TechCrunch · Jul 2023

Preply announced a $70M Series C extension consisting of $42M equity and $28M debt, taking Series C to $120M; funds supported AI and growth.

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Jobs and careers at Preply

111 jobs at Preply

Senior US Brand Campaigns Manager

Remote

Brand

New York; New York, New York, United States

Today

Remote

Full-time