Cursos.com

What Cursos.com does

Cursos.com is a Spain-based online course aggregation and lead-generation platform that has operated continuously since 2004. The company connects prospective students with academies and training centers offering three categories of educational products: specialized professional courses (Cursos), civil service examination preparation (Oposiciones), and official vocational training programs (Formación Profesional / FP). Its catalog spans 19+ professional categories — including healthcare, IT, business administration, veterinary, tourism, construction, and languages — and aggregates offerings from multiple partner academies, with named partners including MASTER D, CAMPUS TRAINING, ATEM, EDO FORMACIÓN, and GANTEC. End users are individual learners, primarily Spanish adults seeking career advancement, civil service aspirants, and students pursuing official FP qualifications.

The underlying technology is a relatively conventional web platform: a browsable and filterable course catalog, individual course-detail pages, an inquiry form that captures user preferences, and routing of those inquiries to selected partner academies. Course delivery itself is handled by the partner academies via their own e-learning infrastructure, not by Cursos.com. The platform drives traffic primarily through organic SEO and an extensive Spanish-language blog covering career guidance, salary data, and exam preparation, with no disclosed AI/ML features, mobile app, API, or proprietary data products.

Cursos.com monetizes through affiliate/referral fees from partner academies for qualified student inquiries and likely enrollments, making it a B2B-supply monetization model on top of a B2C demand funnel. The company does not publish course pricing; pricing is set by the academies. Cursos.com operates exclusively in Spain, is privately held, and is affiliated with Grupo Northius, a multi-brand Spanish educational group that processes user data submitted through the platform's forms and operates additional training brands. No funding rounds, revenue figures, headcount, or M&A activity are disclosed.

Name

Cursos.com

Legal name

Cursos.com

Website

https://cursos.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Cursos.com is a Spain-based online course aggregation and lead-generation platform, founded in 2004, that connects individual learners with partner academies offering professional courses, civil service exam preparation, and vocational training across 19+ categories, monetizing via referral fees from those academies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Education Marketplace

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Exam Preparation and Tutoring (611691)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

College & Program Discovery, Matching & Fit Tools (EDAFAMAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Certification & Exam Prep Course Marketplaces (EDAFAIAJ), Enrollment Yield, Matriculation & Onboarding Platforms (EDAFAMAG)

Keywords

• Online course marketplace
• Vocational training catalog
• Civil service exam preparation
• Education lead generation
• Academy matching platform

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Lead Generation / Referral Fees from Partner Academies: Cursos.com generates revenue by connecting prospective students with partner academies and training centers. The platform collects user inquiries and forwards them to academies (such as MASTER D, CAMPUS TRAINING, ATEM, EDO FORMACIÓN, GANTEC), likely earning referral or lead-generation fees for each qualified student enrollment or inquiry submitted.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cursos.com is a Spanish-language online course aggregation and lead-generation platform that catalogs courses, oposiciones (public service exam preparation), and Formación Profesional (vocational training) programs from multiple partner academies. Users browse the catalog across 19+ professional categories, submit an information request, and are matched with selected academies such as MASTER D, CAMPUS TRAINING, ATEM, EDO FORMACIÓN, and GANTEC, who then contact the user directly with program details. The platform monetizes by forwarding qualified inquiries to partner academies.

Product overview

Cursos.com is a Spanish educational course marketplace that operates as a platform connecting students with academies and training centers. The service comprises three core offerings: Cursos (specialized professional courses), Oposiciones (civil service exam preparation), and FP (vocational training programs). Additional services include a blog with educational content and online course delivery options. The platform aggregates hundreds of courses across diverse categories including veterinary, health, IT, construction, tourism, languages, business administration, and more, providing a unified search and contact interface for prospective students.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Cursos (Courses) A course search and matching service that connects students with partner academies offering specialized professional training courses across categories including veterinary, health, IT, languages, business, construction, tourism, design, and more. Targeted at adult learners in Spain seeking flexible online or in-person training to improve employability.
• Oposiciones (Civil Service Exam Preparation) A preparation and matching service for public service competitive examinations (oposiciones) in Spain, connecting aspiring civil servants with partner academies for structured preparation to pass government selection tests in areas such as law enforcement, healthcare administration, education, finance, justice, and penitentiary institutions.
• FP (Formación Profesional / Vocational Training) A vocational training search and matching service offering access to official intermediate and higher Formación Profesional (FP) programs (Grado Medio and Grado Superior) across Spain, including in-person and distance options in Madrid, Barcelona, and other regions. Covers sectors such as healthcare, IT, business administration, hospitality, and education.

Quantifiable outcome

• Access to a catalog spanning 19+ professional categories including courses, oposiciones, and Formación Profesional programs

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• MASTER DcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMASTER D is listed as one of the primary partner academies on Cursos.com's platform. Users can select MASTER D from the list of academies they wish to receive information from when submitting an inquiry form. MASTER D offers a wide range of courses, oppositions, and vocational training programs.
• CAMPUS TRAININGcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCAMPUS TRAINING is listed as a partner academy on Cursos.com. Users can select CAMPUS TRAINING to receive information about its vocational training and professional course offerings through the platform's inquiry system.
• ATEMminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorATEM is listed among the partner academies available on Cursos.com's platform for users to request information from.
• EDO FORMACIÓNminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorEDO FORMACIÓN is listed as a partner academy on Cursos.com, included in the selection of training providers users can choose when requesting course information.
• GANTECminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGANTEC is listed as a partner academy on Cursos.com, available as one of the training providers users can select to receive information about their educational offerings.
• Grupo NorthiuscoreOthersGrupo Northius is the parent company of Cursos.com. User data from the inquiry forms is shared with Grupo Northius and its constituent companies, which include multiple educational brands. The group leverages shared data infrastructure and cross-selling across its portfolio of training platforms.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Udemy: Udemy is a global course marketplace that competes for the same career-upskilling intent as Cursos.com but with a self-serve global catalog and creator-payout model. It is a broad incumbent benchmark for marketplace dynamics in online learning rather than a direct Spain-only competitor.
• Coursera: Coursera is a global MOOC and certification marketplace that, like Cursos.com, aggregates third-party courses and helps learners compare programs, but operates at global scale and is oriented to higher-education and professional credentials rather than Spain-specific FP and oposiciones.
• InfoJobs (Schibsted): InfoJobs is the leading Spanish job platform and, like Indeed, has progressively added training, FP and career-content modules for job seekers. It competes with Cursos.com indirectly by capturing demand from the same career-advancement audience, though its monetization model is hiring-side rather than academy-side.
• Indeed España: Indeed España is the dominant Spanish-language job search engine and increasingly surfaces training and certification pathways as part of its job seeker funnel. It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with Cursos.com on the audience side (career-advancement-oriented Spanish adults) rather than on the academy referral model.

Direct peers

• Formación y Trabajos / Formación Universitaria: Formación Universitaria is a Spanish training group that markets vocational courses, FP and oposiciones directly to learners through its own web properties. It overlaps with Cursos.com in the same target audience and category mix, and competes both as a listed academy on marketplaces and as a destination site in its own right.
• Educaweb: Educaweb is a Spanish education portal that helps prospective students discover courses, FP programs, oposiciones and university degrees from training centers across Spain. It competes head-to-head with Cursos.com in the course/oposiciones/FP discovery and lead-generation category, with a similar content-led SEO acquisition approach.
• Logoss (Grupo Logoss): Logoss is a Spanish educational offering comparator and lead-generation platform for courses, oposiciones, masters, FP and university programs. It is directly comparable to Cursos.com in audience (Spanish adult learners) and in the way it monetizes by routing inquiries to partner academies.
• MiFormación (CEAC): CEAC is a long-established Spanish distance-learning group that combines its own training catalog with a discovery/matching interface for adult learners. While it is more vertically integrated than Cursos.com, its web presence and marketing approach overlap significantly in the Spanish vocational and oposiciones market.
• Emagister: Emagister is the leading Spanish-language marketplace for courses, oposiciones, FP and master's programs, aggregating offerings from academies across Spain. It is the most direct competitor to Cursos.com in terms of business model (course aggregation + academy referrals), target audience (Spanish adult learners), and content/SEO-driven acquisition strategy.

Regional players

• Grupo CCC: Grupo CCC is a Spanish distance-learning group offering courses and oposiciones preparation, primarily under its own brand rather than as a marketplace. It overlaps with Cursos.com in the categories served and the Spanish adult-learner audience, but monetizes directly via enrollment rather than via academy referrals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/school/cursos.com

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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