How many employees work at Academia, Inc.?

Academia, Inc. has 537 employees, according to Revelio Labs workforce intelligence data. The YoY growth rate is 9.8%.

Data source: Revelio Labs Coverage: Global workforce Latest update: December 2025

About Academia, Inc.

Academia.edu has built and is expanding the premier distribution and peer review platform for academic research. Guided by our mission to democratize and accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world. This is just the start of our long-term vision and we are growing fast! Academia’s platform has registered more than 210 million users (still growing at 2M monthly), and has many millions of unique visitors every month, including over 30M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 300,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to us being profitable YOY the last five years in a row. Academia has attracted $62 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes. Academia is a proud equal-opportunity employer, and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. *NOTE: LinkedIn is incorrect. As of January 2023, we are only ~72 employees and ~38 Engineers.

As of December 2025

Academia, Inc.
workforce metrics

Headcount

537

Avg. Salary

$60.9k

Tenure

3.7yr

Growth Rate

9.8%

Hiring Rate

Attrition Rate

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Employee Headcount

Interactive chart of Academia, Inc. annual worldwide employee count from 2023 to 2025.

  • Academia, Inc. total number of employees in 2025 was 538, a 9.8% increase from 2024.
  • Academia, Inc. total number of employees in 2024 was 488, a 11.5% increase from 2023.
  • Academia, Inc. total number of employees in 2023 was 435, a 7.9% increase from 2022.

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Employee Geographic Breakdown

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Employee Role Breakdown

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Employee Compensation

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Active Job Postings

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  • Academia, Inc. active job postings in 2025 was 11, a 30.8% decline from 2024.
  • Academia, Inc. active job postings in 2024 was 15, a 115.8% increase from 2023.
  • Academia, Inc. active job postings in 2023 was 4, a 111.1% decline from 2022.

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