# Julia Stiglitz

> Julia Stiglitz is the CEO and co-founder of Uplimit (formerly CoRise), an AI-native learning platform that lets companies build, run, and personalize training programs for thousands of employees at once. A fourth-grade teacher turned edtech operator, she was one of the first ten employees at Coursera, where she founded the enterprise business and helped grow the company past 40 million learners. She later managed Google Apps for Education and was a partner at GSV Ventures before starting Uplimit in 2021 with fellow Coursera alumni. Her bet: that AI can finally make high-quality, personalized education a renewable resource rather than a scarce one.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-Founder at Uplimit
- **Organizations:** Uplimit, CoRise, Coursera, Google, GSV Ventures, Teach For America
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, Pomona College, MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, MA in Education, Stanford University
- **Known for:** One of the first ten employees at Coursera and its first business hire, Founded Coursera's enterprise business, scaling it from concept to 1,400+ organizations including 60+ Fortune 500 companies, Helped grow Coursera past 40 million learners and from pre-revenue to over $100M in revenue

## Career timeline

- **Early career** — Taught fourth grade in East San Jose through Teach For America
- **Pre-2012** — Managed North America sales and global community for Google Apps for Education, reaching 18M+ active students, faculty and staff and 70 of the top 100 US universities
- **2012** — Joined Coursera as one of the first ten employees and its first business hire (12th employee)
- **2012-2019** — Led consumer international growth and monetization; launched Specializations; founded and led the Enterprise business, growing it to 1,400+ organizations including 60+ Fortune 500 companies
- **Pre-2021** — Partner at GSV Ventures, investing in early-stage education and future-of-work companies
- **2021** — Co-founded CoRise with Coursera alumni Sourabh Bajaj and Jacob Samuelson
- **2023** — Rebranded CoRise to Uplimit; raised $8.5M from GSV, Greylock and Cowboy Ventures with angels including Greg Brockman
- **2024** — Closed $11M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, bringing total funding to $19.5M
- **2025** — Launched a suite of AI agents for program management, skill-building and teaching that can train thousands of employees simultaneously

## Achievements

- One of the first ten employees at Coursera and its first business hire
- Founded Coursera's enterprise business, scaling it from concept to 1,400+ organizations including 60+ Fortune 500 companies
- Helped grow Coursera past 40 million learners and from pre-revenue to over $100M in revenue
- Launched Coursera Specializations, the product behind the majority of its revenue
- Grew Google Apps for Education to 18M+ active users and 70 of the top 100 US universities
- Raised $19.5M total for Uplimit from Salesforce Ventures, Greylock, GSV, Cowboy Ventures and others
- Built an AI-native platform delivering customer results like 95% faster course creation (Procore) and 75% less instructor time (Databricks)

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Uplimit launched a suite of AI agents for program management, skill-building and teaching that can train 1,000+ employees simultaneously.
- **2024-07** — Uplimit closed an $11M Series A led by Salesforce Ventures, with Workday Ventures, Translink Capital and Conviction joining existing backers.

## Links

- Website: https://uplimit.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-stiglitz-0255526/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/juliastiglitz
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/uplimit.learning/

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Last updated: 2026-06-11