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Codemao, China's pioneer in online coding lessons for kids, targets IPO

  • China
  • 5 min read
  • Dec 10, 2019
  • By Li Yuan

© Codemao

Codemao has taught over 30m children in China how to code with its proprietary online tools, including cartoons, mobile apps and curriculum, even its own coding language 

In November 2014, two young postgraduate students, both from China, attended the Web Summit in Ireland together. They were in Europe pursuing their masters in Computer Science and were only a few months away from graduation. One of the two, Sun Yue, had already landed a job at a Finland-based institute. The other, Li Tianchi, had applied for a PhD at UC Berkeley.
It was a routine trip to a tech conference until they chanced upon something they had never seen before. “There were kids, aged only seven to eight, coding with great passion,” they recalled. “They coded better than most Chinese co...

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