Kaikeba

Kaikeba is an online vocational education platform that was originally launched in August 2013 as a subsidiary of Huike Group, a higher-education service provider . In August 2020, it formally spun off from Huike Group and raised a RMB 550 million Series A round co-led by Gaorong Ventures and Hillhouse Venture Capital, which Gaorong described as the largest single financing in new-vocational online education at the time . The company followed that with a RMB 600 million Series B1 round in mid-2021, again with Gaorong Ventures continuing to invest . Post-independence, Kaikeba repositioned itself as an "online vocational education" platform focused on digital-talent training for the "new infrastructure" era, offering courses in areas such as Java, web front-end, data analytics, Python, AI, product management, and operations . By mid-2021, its team had grown from roughly 1,000 to over 3,500 people, and its revenue in the first half of 2021 was reportedly about 3.5× the year-earlier period . The platform also built partnerships with major tech employers including Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, Didi, and Microsoft .