Chegg

Venture-backed company · Stage unknownchegg.com
Rounds on record
3
Latest round
May 4, 2012
Form D equity offering
Latest round size
$2.4M

Public company. Publicly listed (CHGG); its private filings are not venture rounds.

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10 additional investors

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What matters now

  1. 7 investors
    named

    7 investors on record.

    The investors already on the cap table shape who leads the next round.

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Facts

Year of incorporation
unknown
Revenue range (Form D)
unknown
Rounds on record
3
Disclosed raised
unknownsum of rounds with a disclosed amount only
Named investors
7

Financing history

3 rounds
  1. May 4, 2012
    Form D equity offering · $2.4M (form d sold)
    Kpcb China via Ted SchleinGabriel Ventures Partners via Frederick BolanderInsight Venture Partners via Deven Jawahar Parekh
    Fact Form D · “Chegg, Inc Form D, first filed 2012-05-21”
  2. Mar 7, 2012
    Form D equity offering · $25.0M (form d sold)
    Kpcb China via Ted SchleinGabriel Ventures Partners via Frederick BolanderInsight Venture Partners via Deven Jawahar Parekh
    Fact Form D · “Chegg, Inc Form D, first filed 2012-03-09”
  3. Nov 19, 2009
    Form D equity offering · $57.0M (form d sold)
    Gabriel Ventures Partners via Frederick BolanderKpcb China via Ted SchleinFoundation Capital, LLC via Paul Robbins HollandInsight Venture Partners via Deven Jawahar Parekh
    Fact Form D · “Chegg, Inc Form D, first filed 2009-12-16”

Who would invest

7 investors on record, then the firms most like them

Already invested

7 investors on record

Strong comparable investors

0 firms

Firms that backed two or more of the companies this company's own investors also back.

No firm backed two or more of the companies this company's investors back, so there is no comparable investor on record yet.

Broader fit

10 firms

Firms that co-invest repeatedly with this company's investors and dated a new company in the last 12 months.

  1. Sequoia Capital
    • Co-invested 24 times with 4 of this company's investors
    • Has joined rounds of $1M to $5M (1 on record)
    • 13 new companies dated in the last 12 months, latest Sep 11, 2026
    • Led 25% of 12 rounds whose lead is known
    • Followed on in 7% of its companies
  2. Institutional Venture
    • Backed 1 company this company's investors also back
    • Co-invested 10 times with 3 of this company's investors
    • 1 new company dated in the last 12 months, latest Jul 29, 2026
    • 6 funds raising or deploying (newest vintage 2024)
  3. Bessemer Venture Partners
    • Backed 1 company this company's investors also back
    • Co-invested 6 times with 2 of this company's investors
    • Has joined rounds of $1M to $5M (7 on record)
    • 21 new companies dated in the last 12 months, latest Sep 30, 2026
    • Led 64% of 33 rounds whose lead is known

+7 more broader-fit firms

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Ownership and outcomes

none on record
Outcome stated by investors

Listed on 3 firm portfolio pages; none states an outcome (acquired, public, exited or active). DFX does not assume the company is active.

Evidence: 3 listingseach firm's own card, as read
No later owner or exit on record: no private equity sponsor position and no acquisition, listing or IPO report names this company.

Credit relationships

none on record
No lender position matched to this company.

People

0 officers, 0 directors
No officer or director on record.

Timeline

0 events
No dated event on record.

Evidence

5 observations
Every observation on this company
  • Listed on portfolio page: Sep 16, 2026 Fact Firm website
  • Listed on portfolio page: Sep 15, 2026 Fact Firm website
  • Listed on portfolio page: Sep 13, 2026 Fact
  • Listed on portfolio page: Sep 12, 2026 Fact
  • Website status: redirected:chegg.com:443 Sep 29, 2026 Fact

Relationships across DFX

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Chegg is the same institution as 1 record in Private Equity.

Private Equity1

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Record history

2 identity changes, 2 dated events on the change ledger, latest event first
  • Event retracted
    2026-09-30
  • Event retracted
    2026-09-30
  • Portfolio entry removed
    2026-09-16source on record

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