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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report on Form 10-K (“Form 10-K”) contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Any statements contained in this Form 10-K that are not statements of historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the words “may,” “might,” “will,” “can,” “could,” “would,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “objective,” “target,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” “continue,” “ongoing,” “forecast,” and “outlook,” or the negative of these terms, or other comparable terminology intended to identify statements about the future. These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements about:

•trends and expectations for growth in the higher education and online education markets;

•the acceptance, adoption, and growth of online learning and credentialing;

•market acceptance and demand for our platform;

•the potential benefits of our solutions to learners and educator partners;

•anticipated launch dates of new educator partner programs;

•our business model;

•our expectations of our future financial performance, including revenue, expenses, and profitability;

•our ability to successfully develop, launch, maintain, and scale new programs, offerings, and features, including artificial intelligence (“AI”);

•our ability to expand our platform's content and credentialing programs;

•our ability to manage or sustain our growth and to effectively expand our global customer base and operations;

•our ability to acquire new educator partners and expand program offerings with existing educator partners;

•our ability to acquire prospective learners and increase learner enrollment, revenue, and retention;

•our growth strategies, plans, objectives, and goals;

•our ability to compete and expectations about the future competitive landscape;

•the scalability of our platform and operations;

•the size of our addressable markets, market share, and market trends;

•the affordability and convenience of our platform;

•our ability to obtain, maintain, protect, and enforce our intellectual property (“IP”) and proprietary rights and successfully defend against claims of infringement, misappropriation, or other violations of third-party IP;

•our anticipated future capital requirements, including the availability of capital to sustain and grow our business;

•our ability to successfully defend any current or future litigation brought against us;

•our ability to implement and maintain effective policies, procedures, and internal controls;

•potential changes in laws and regulations applicable to us or our educator partners and ability to comply;

•our share repurchase program;

•our contractual obligations and commitments;

•the anticipated utility of our non-GAAP financial measures and key business metrics; and

•our expectations as to interest rate and foreign currency risks.

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In addition, any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical facts are deemed to be forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect our management’s beliefs and views with respect to future events, are based on estimates and assumptions as of the date of this report, and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by our forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those risks discussed in Part I, Item 1A “Risk Factors” of the Form 10-K. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. We qualify all of the forward-looking statements in the Form 10-K with these cautionary statements.

You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee that the future results, levels of activity, performance, events, or circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur. We undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of the Form 10-K to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in our expectations, except as required by law.

In the Form 10-K, references to “Coursera,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our” mean Coursera, Inc., a Delaware public benefit corporation, and its subsidiaries, unless otherwise stated.

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