Codecademy Plans Global Code-Teaching Expansion With $10M From Branson, Milner, Kleiner, Index, Union Square

Codecademy, the New York startup that wants to teach the world to code, has capitalized on widespread interest by raising a second venture round of $10 million from top investors -- Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures and Yuri Milner -- and serial entrepreneur Richard Branson. It's been at the right place at the right time.�Thousands of people now want to start their own tech companies, but haven't learned the necessary technical skills. And software is eating the world -- millions of people are finding code useful for their other jobs, anything from setting up form emails to crunching data in spreadsheets.

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