Codemao vs Brightspace
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Shenzhen children's coding education platform for 31M+ students in 11,500 China schools; $360M/$7.3B valuation (2024) with UNESCO Africa-Asia Coding Initiative and TIME #1 global EdTech 2025 competing with Scratch for K-12 coding.
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Codemao (编程猫) is a Shenzhen, China-based children's coding education platform — backed with $360+ million in total funding at a $7.3 billion valuation as of 2024 — providing 31+ million students aged 4-16 with visual programming and AI literacy education through proprietary tools including Kitten (a Scratch-inspired visual programming language optimized for mobile) and Nemo (mobile coding application). The platform partners with 11,500 schools across China and generates approximately $17 million in annual revenue. In 2025, TIME magazine ranked Codemao as the top EdTech company globally, and UNESCO launched a partnership with Codemao on the Africa-Asia Youth Coding Initiative Phase 2 (2025-2030) to expand digital skills education across developing nations. Founded in December 2014 in Paris by Sun Yue and Li Tianchi (Chinese graduate students at EIT Digital Master School), operating from Shenzhen headquarters with offices in Beijing and Shanghai and 3,000+ employees.
Canadian LMS serving 15M learners at 900+ institutions; Brightspace platform with D2L Lumi AI suite for personalized learning, at-risk student detection, and AI tutoring.
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Brightspace (D2L) is a cloud-based learning management system developed by D2L (Desire2Learn), a Canadian ed-tech company serving higher education, K-12, and corporate learning markets. Founded in 1999 by John Baker in Waterloo, Ontario, D2L launched Brightspace as a modern, mobile-responsive LMS designed to improve on the user experience limitations of legacy systems like Blackboard. D2L has raised over $165 million in funding and serves approximately 15 million learners at 900+ institutions globally, with particular strength in Canadian higher education and growing US market share.
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