Pengxuan Zeng, Founder of Hetao101

About Pengxuan Zeng

Pengxuan Zeng is the Co-founder & CEO of Hetao101, also known as Walnut Coding, an online coding education platform for young learners. The company offers curricula in programming languages like Scratch, Python, and C++. Hetao101 was co-founded in 2017 and has raised $377.3M across 2 funding rounds, with the latest being a Series C in March 2021. Zeng's inspiration for the company stemmed from his 2011 master's studies at UPenn, where he recognized the potential of coding education to foster logical thinking and academic growth.

Pengxuan Zeng at a glance

• Company: Hetao101
• Total raised: $377M
• Latest round: Series C
• Investors: Hillhouse Capital, KKR, Source Code Capital, Ming LEI, Hillhouse Capital Group, XVC
• Location: Beijing, China

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