Academia Americana

Name

Academia Americana

Legal name

ACADEMIA AA, C.A.

Website

https://academiaamericana.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1955

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Caracas

HQ country

Venezuela

HQ region

Latin America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Course Tuition Fees: Revenue generated from vocational and technical course enrollment fees. The institution offers both full payments and partial payment options (abonos parciales) for students. Courses span multiple disciplines including administrative, beauty, culinary, commercial, computing, technical drawing, education, health, and technical trades.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Academia Americana is a Venezuelan vocational training institution founded in 1955, headquartered in Caracas, that delivers career-oriented courses across ten areas: Administrative, Beauty, Cooking, Commercial, Computing, Drawing & Architecture, Education & Languages, Health, Workshops, and Technical. The institute operates two physical campuses in Caracas and an online e-learning platform, serving individual students who pursue professional certification and skill development.

Product overview

Academia Americana is a vocational training institution offering a portfolio of 10 subject-area programs (Administrative, Beauty, Cooking, Commercial, Computing, Drawing & Architecture, Education & Languages, Health, Workshops, and Technical), taught both in-person at two physical Caracas campuses (Chacaito and La Candelaria) and through its online e-learning platform (campus.academiaamericana.online). The institution is complemented by the Sistema Integral de Control de Estudio (SICE) academic management system, an online payment portal accepting PayPal and credit/debit cards, and a teacher application portal. The product portfolio is unified under the Academia Americana brand, serving adolescents and adults seeking workforce-ready skills, with online learning added since 2021.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Administrative vocational courses

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Universidad Audiovisual de Venezuela (UAV)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversidad Audiovisual de Venezuela is referenced as 'universidad hermana' (sister university) of Academia Americana. UAV is described as a national and international reference center for training professionals and technicians in audiovisual production. Academia Americana recommends UAV to its students as an advanced educational pathway. This represents an informal strategic relationship for student referral and educational pathway alignment.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Coursera: Global MOOC platform offering professional certificates in business, computing, and technical fields - directly competing with Academia Americana's professional development training, especially for adult learners seeking internationally recognized credentials.
• Udemy: Global online learning marketplace with a broad course catalog covering computing, business, technical trades, and many of the same vocational areas as Academia Americana. Represents the global incumbent that Academia Americana's online offering must differentiate against.

Regional players

• Platzi: Latin American online education platform offering vocational and technology-focused courses in Spanish, with direct overlap in computing, digital marketing, and design training areas that Academia Americana also covers. Both serve Spanish-speaking learners seeking workforce-ready vocational skills.
• Crehana: Latin American online learning platform focused on creative and business skills, directly overlapping with Academia Americana's Commercial, Beauty, and Design course areas. Both target Spanish-speaking learners seeking vocational skills at accessible price points.
• SENA (Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje): Colombian government vocational training institution offering free technical and trade courses with a comparable operating model as a publicly-funded vocational training provider. Serves the same Andean region student demographic that Academia Americana targets.
• Domestika: Online creative vocational education platform with strong overlap in Beauty, Illustration, Graphic Design, and Interior Design disciplines - all areas Academia Americana covers. Both monetize short-form vocational courses targeting individuals seeking creative skills.
• INCE (Instituto Nacional de Capacitación y Educación): Venezuelan government vocational training institution providing subsidized technical and trade training across Venezuela. The most direct Venezuelan market peer and the most policy-relevant competitor for Academia Americana's vocational course offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/uaudiovisualve
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCxID
• Facebookfacebook.com/UAudiovisualVE
• Instagraminstagram.com/aamericanaedu
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/academia-americana-ve

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Investors

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