About Learnotion

We built the course
we wished had existed.

The web's full of lectures. Lectures are not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is that nobody sequences them for you, brings them back at the right moment, or asks you to use what you just saw. So we built that — and made it the whole product.

Our mission

Make individual attention
a default, not a luxury.

For most of history, the best version of education was a tutor: someone who knew what you knew, what you didn't, and what to ask you next. That kind of attention was reserved for the few. We think software can finally give it to everyone — not by replacing teachers, but by handling the parts that don't scale.

Our job is the loop. Diagnose, sequence, reinforce, apply. Do it well, lesson after lesson, for tens of thousands of learners at the same time. The rest — the warmth, the encouragement, the judgment about what's worth teaching — we leave to humans.

What we hold to

Our handful of opinions.

01

Learners aren't users.

We don't measure engagement. We measure mastery. Time-on-app is a vanity metric — we'd rather you finish and leave.

02

Quiet beats clever.

The engine should feel invisible. If you're noticing the personalization, we got the dose wrong.

03

Practitioners write courses.

We don't hire course factories. Every instructor still ships production code. Otherwise the course will read like a textbook.

04

Show the work.

Every claim about outcomes is backed by a number we publish. If something stops working, we say so first.

05

Privacy is the floor.

We track what you do in the lessons. Nothing else. No data sold, no shadow profiling, ever.

06

Accessible by default.

Captions, transcripts, keyboard nav, screen readers. Not a quarter goal — a launch requirement.

Timeline

The last few years in a paragraph each.

2022

A side project, of course.

Co-founders Maya and Daniel meet in a reading group on retrieval practice. Three months later, the first prototype: a spaced-recall tool stapled onto a single React course. People finished it.

2023

The engine finds its shape.

We ship sequencing. The first three courses go live. Cohort completion goes from 28% to 64%. We hire two practitioners — neither of whom calls themselves a “creator”.

2024

Mentors come online.

Capstones become a thing. Mentor reviews, 48-hour SLA. The catalog hits 30 courses. A small Series A from people we wanted to learn from.

2025

Teams, and the outcomes report.

We launch for engineering teams. We publish our first outcomes report — the same dashboard we look at. 41k learners, 87 courses. We're still small. We're still optimizing for mastery, not minutes.

41k
Active learners
94
Countries
87
Courses
78%
Completion rate
The team

Small, opinionated, remote.

We're hiring · 3 roles →

Maya Okafor

Co-founder, Curriculum

Ex-Stripe staff engineer. Wrote the first React course on a couch in Lagos.

Daniel Reyes

Co-founder, Engine

Ex-Hugging Face ML lead. Reads more about memory than is healthy.

Priya Iyer

Head of Mentorship

Ex-Datadog principal SRE. Treats code review like a love language.

Lukas Brandt

Eng, Mobile

Built the mobile app on a six-month sabbatical. Now it pays his rent.

Sofia Petersen

Design

Designed every empty state with the same care as the hero.

Aiden Chen

Research

PhD in cognitive science. Writes the papers we steal from.

Nora Albright

Operations

The reason payroll runs and your support ticket got answered.

+ 14 mentors

Working practitioners

Engineers, scientists and designers who still ship — and teach on the side.

Supported by
First Round
Sequoia
[a16z]
Reach
Pioneer

Come learn with us.

Or, you know, work with us. We're hiring across engineering, curriculum and mentorship — fully remote, fully candid.