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Oct 2023Schibsted Ventures purchased 4.5% of Scrimba directly from the founders in a secondary transaction; the existing investors kept their ownership shares.
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Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Scrimba is a remote-first Oslo-based edtech company that teaches people to code through interactive screencasts (“scrims”) and structured career paths.
Primary product
Interactive coding education platform with scrim-based courses, career paths, and a Pro subscription
Founded
2016
Headquarters
Oslo, Norway
Team size
40-50
Work style
Remote
Industry
E-Learning Providers
Sub-industry
Coding education / developer upskilling
Offices
Åsdalsveien 31C, Oslo 1166, Norway
Gaustadalleen 21, Oslo 0349, Norway
Oslo, Norway
Business model
freemium subscription
direct-to-consumer membership
course sales
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$940K
Latest round
Secondary / share purchase · Oct 2023
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder & COO
Head of Education
Work & culture
Mission-driven, remote-first, and community-oriented. Public materials emphasize hands-on learning, peer support, weekly Town Halls, a playful/friendly tone, and continuous iteration on the product and curriculum.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
No public company salary bands were found. A public Teacher Talent Program offered a $1,000 USD grant to accepted course creators.
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium subscription with monthly and annual Scrimba Pro plans plus Bootcamp-style memberships; some courses are free
Differentiators
- —interactive scrim format that lets learners edit the instructor’s code in-browser
- —MDN-aligned frontend curriculum through Mozilla partnership
- —named expert instructors
- —structured career paths from beginner to job-ready
- —completion certificates on free and paid courses
- —strong Discord/community layer
- —focus on web development and AI engineering rather than broad-topic catalog breadth
Technology
React
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
GitHub
Firebase
Figma
Cloudflare
Netlify
Discord
Imba
Customers
individual learners
aspiring software developers
career changers
frontend/fullstack/backend learners
AI engineering learners
organizations using myACI Marketplace
Competitors
Codecademy
Frontend Masters
freeCodeCamp
The Odin Project
Udemy
SoloLearn
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
USD 1M-10M (about $2.1M annual revenue)
Estimated monthly visits
3.3M
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Latest news
Scrimba blog · Jul 2026
A 2026 guide focused on job search strategy, portfolios, and using Scrimba’s structured paths to move from learning to employment.
Scrimba blog · Jul 2026
Recent career-switch guidance aimed at learners coming into tech, reinforcing Scrimba’s positioning as a job-oriented learning platform.
Scrimba blog · Jul 2026
Comparison article that highlights Scrimba’s interactive scrim format, desktop-first workflow, and job-focused web-development paths.
LinkedIn · Jun 2026
Launch of docs.scrimba.com, a new documentation-style learning resource with a softer, slower format and new course content in progress.
Scrimba blog · Sep 2023
Announcement of a LangChain partnership to help web developers learn AI engineering and build context-aware applications.
Jobs and careers at Scrimba
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