Domestika

www.domestika.org ↗ ·San Francisco ·Series D

Domestika is an online learning platform and community for creative professionals, offering professionally produced video courses in areas such as illustration, design, photography, animation, crafts and marketing, taught by working creatives. Its business model is based mainly on à la carte course sales, and it offers free community membership. By early 2022 it had more than 8 million members, over 2,000 courses from about 1,300 instructors, and courses in six languages. It began in Madrid in 2002 as an online forum for creatives and is now headquartered in California. It raised a $20 million Series C in October 2021 and then a $110 million Series D in January 2022, led by Zeev Ventures with participation from GSV Ventures, at a $1.3 billion valuation.

Founded

2002

Founders

Total funds raised

$130M

SectorsEdtech, Creator Economy, Online Learning, Consumer Start-up MapEdtech › Online learning platforms

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Founders

Gabriel Suchowolski

Co-founder

Julio G. Cotorruelo

Co-founder & CEO

Tomy Pelluz

Co-founder & President

Global models 5

MasterClass

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Sells professionally produced video courses taught by well-known practitioners, many of them in creative fields, directly to consumers.

~$460MComparable

Udemy

United States · www.udemy.com ↗

Runs an instructor-led marketplace of video courses sold one by one, the same à la carte model Domestika relies on.

~$310MComparable

Skillshare

United States · www.skillshare.com ↗

Runs a community of creatives plus a video-course platform for illustration, design, photography and crafts, taught by working creatives.

~$135MComparable

Craftsy

United States · www.craftsy.com ↗

Sold individual, professionally produced video classes in crafts and creative hobbies to a large online community of makers.

~$100MComparable

CreativeLive

United States · www.creativelive.com ↗

Sells video classes in photography, design, art and creative business, taught by working professionals, per course or by subscription.

~$60MComparable

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Investors 2

Zeev Ventures

www.zeevventures.com ↗

Led Series D 2022 United States

GSV Ventures

gsv.ventures ↗

Series D 2022 United States

Funding rounds 2

Date	Round	Amount	Lead
2022-01-27	Series D	$110M	Zeev Ventures +1 more
2021-10	Series C	$20M	Lead not disclosed

News 2

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Published	Article
2025-11-04	Unpaid Domestika and CGMA Instructors Protest Online, Students Join Over Billing Issues ↗ Class Central 2025-11-04
2025-10-03	140 Teachers Unpaid After Online Art School CGMA Abruptly Shuts Down Operations ↗ Cartoon Brew 2025-10-03