Federal contractor · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA

COURSERA, INC.

COURSERA, INC. received $2.7M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 6 awards (−20% vs FY2025). Since FY2018: $17.8M. Its largest customer was Washington Headquarters Services ($2.1M).

Obligations · FY2026: $2.7M
New awards: 6
Sole-source: 99%
Single offer: 0.7%

UEI: US2NXMCA1373

Other than small business

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

166.4KFY2018
517.9KFY2019
856.4KFY2020
1.8MFY2021
1.6MFY2022
2.9MFY2023
4MFY2024
3.3MFY2025
2.7MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Washington Headquarters Services$2.1M79%
1 awards
Department of the Air Force$400.2K15%
2 awards
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$73.2K2.7%
1 awards
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$72.8K2.7%
1 awards
Office of the Secretary$20K0.7%
1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Education & social services$2.7M100%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Low competition100%
US 39% · $2.7M
Sole-source awards99%
US 30% · $2.6M
Single-offer competitions0.7%
US 8.8% · $20K
Urgency justifications0.0%
US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

Department of the Air Force$400.2K
Department of Defense · 2 awards
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention$73.2K
Department of Health and Human Services · 1 awards
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education$72.8K
Department of the Interior · 1 awards

Largest awards

RENEWAL OF COURSERA USER LICENSES$4.2M
Washington Headquarters Services· Fairfax County, VA· Education & social services· Aug 25, 2025 – Jun 4, 2026· HQ003425PE091
1,000 COURSERA USER LICENSES FOR AFLCMC/GBH$290K
Department of the Air Force· Bexar County, TX· Education & social services· May 7, 2026 – May 7, 2026· FA873426FR004
380 COURSERA USER CONTENT LICENSES FOR DIGITAL UNIVERSITY.$110.2K
Department of the Air Force· Bexar County, TX· Education & social services· Jun 9, 2026 – Jun 9, 2026· FA873426FR005
COURSERA USER LICENSE$73.2K
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention· Santa Clara County, CA· Education & social services· Feb 20, 2026 – Jun 9, 2026· 75D30126P20762
EO 14398 COURSERA ENTERPRISE LICENSES FOR GREAT PLAINS REGION$72.8K
Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education· Santa Clara County, CA· Education & social services· Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 4, 2026· 140A0126P0070
COURSERA IS AN ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM THAT PARTNERS WITH UNIVERSITIES AND INDUSTRY ORGANIZATIONS TO PROVIDE COURSES, PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES, AND DEGREE PROGRAMS. IT IS USED BY INDIVIDUALS IN OICTS TO DEVELOP SKILLS, EARN ACADEMIC OR PROFESSIONAL$20K
Office of the Secretary· District of Columbia, DC· Education & social services· May 21, 2026 – May 21, 2026· 1331L526P0007

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 7 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

GB5TS, LLC$6.1M−89% in FY2026
ALEXANDRIA, VA · 42% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveWashington Headquarters Services · Business schools and computer and management training
NEUBRAIN LLC$3.5M−100% in FY2026
ROCKVILLE, MD · 30% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Business schools and computer and management training
NW3C, INC.$4M−4.3% in FY2026
RICHMOND, VA · 30% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Business schools and computer and management training

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

Coursera Inc.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $0; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $400K

Lobbying by year

2023$200K
4 reports
2024$200K
4 reports
2025$0
4 reports
2026$0
1 reports

Top issues

Education8 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES7 reports
U.S. SENATE4 reports
Education - Dept of2 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

K&L GATES LLP$400K
13 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 6951 · College Cost Reduction Act1 report
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024

1 of 13 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 6, 2026, loaded Oct 6, 2026.