Prosus contributed to a series D round that allowed the coding education provider increase its overall funding to more than $82m.
US-based online coding education provider Codecademy has received $40m in a series D round featuring Prosus, the internet and e-commerce group majority-owned by media conglomerate Naspers.
The round was led by Owl Ventures and included fellow venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV), increasing the company’s funding to $82.5m since it was founded in 2011.
Codecademy provides an online education platform enabling users to learn computer coding languages such as Java, HTML and Python. It claims to have helped more…