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Overview

Brilliant teaches mathematics, computer science and physics through short interactive problems rather than lectures. Each lesson asks the learner to reason through a puzzle and reveals the explanation after an attempt. The company sells a consumer subscription and has published thousands of lessons across dozens of courses.

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Shared investors4
89 portfolio companies: Zola, Goldin, nightcapital.com and 86 more
177 portfolio companies: Town, hiloop, Dream Labs and 174 more
239 portfolio companies: Target Spot, Tacoda Systems, Paradev and 236 more
500 GlobalVia a fund
2163 portfolio companies
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Award Ryan Moulton's Articles 3 months ago
Fairly Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds
Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math
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News Be Giant 4 months ago
Locked in an escape room with mathematician Jacob Tsimerman
Jacob Tsimerman was awarded a Fields Medal - the Nobel of math. He's also handy with the occasional dragon's egg
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News X (formerly Twitter) 6 months ago
Sue (@suekhim) on X
AI is making kids dumber.It should be making them geniuses.Introducing Koji, the first AI tutor that gets kids to actually think.
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Tech stack

The technologies known for Brilliant, by layer.
Languages
C++
Kotlin
Python
Frameworks & libraries
OpenCL
Qt
Cloud & platforms
Linux
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
52/100
Stable
Open positions
1
1 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
3124 days
faster than 1% of the market
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Education
100% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added AI Agents to stack Oct 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco United States
HQ
Earlier presence
San Mateo, United States last posting Feb 2018