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Scrimba

Scrimba is a coding course platform with over 120K monthly active students. It's based on a new video format that makes the screencasts fully interactive for students, and easier to create for teachers. Our vision is to create a coding school that has the quality of Stanford but the price of a gym membership.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Scrimba is a coding course platform with over 120K monthly active students. It's based on a new video format that makes the screencasts fully interactive for students, and easier to create for teachers. Our vision is to create a coding school that has the quality of Stanford but the price of a gym membership.

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Scrimba is classified as Gaming and media from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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teacherscoding course platformnew video formatscreencasts
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Gaming and media · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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shared extracted concept terms: video; shared product terms: coding, course, over, student; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

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match 54

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shared extracted concept terms: video; shared product terms: student, video, interactive, school; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Knowmia

match 46

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shared extracted concept terms: teacher; shared product terms: video, teacher, school, course; same category: Gaming and media; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Skillza

match 45

Skillza works with schools, teachers, students, and their parents in the Middle East and Africa to build tools to maximize learning outcomes. We help today's teachers to integrate new technologies into their classrooms to improve the learner-centeredness of their classrooms. Our flagship product Quest is a tool that helps teachers and schools to simplify the process of creating and managing assessments. Teachers create and distribute assessments as well as measure and manage student performances

shared extracted concepts: teachers; shared product terms: student, create, teacher, school; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

immersionED

match 45

For humanities teachers looking to keep their students engaged, immersionED creates immersive learning video games tailored to the AP curriculum.

shared extracted concept terms: teacher; shared product terms: teacher, student, create, video; same category: Gaming and media

Kidato

match 41

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shared product terms: school, student, teacher, but; shared affiliation: Y Combinator