{"id":3846,"date":"2021-04-05T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3846"},"modified":"2021-04-08T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T12:48:23","slug":"online-learning-company-coursera-shares-surge-after-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/online-learning-company-coursera-shares-surge-after-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Learning Company Coursera Shares Surge After IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coursera, an online learning company that offers online courses from top universities and companies, saw a big jump in share price after its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Coursera shares rose by almost a fifth after opening at $39 a share, 18 per cent above the IPO price of $33. Coursera&#8217;s opening balance stood in contrast to a disastrous London debut for Deliveroo, which lost 26 percent on its first day of trading today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Pitchbook, Coursera&#8217;s valuation has doubled since the last round of funding in July, with its recent positive debut, and with 15.7 million shares at the top of its price range. The company&#8217;s platform, which is used by more than 3,700 institutions offering a range of courses, has improved trading with people learning new skills during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information read the &lt;a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/online-learning-platform-coursera-jumps-on-us-stock-market-debut\/&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; rel=&#8221;noopener&#8221;&gt;original story&lt;\/a&gt; in City A.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coursera, an online learning company that offers online courses from top universities and companies, saw a big jump in share price after its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Coursera shares rose by almost a fifth after opening at $39 a share, 18 per cent above the IPO price of $33. Coursera&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[93,92,91],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-coursera","tag-learning","tag-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3935,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions\/3935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}