Chegg Inc.

Chegg, Inc.

Chegg, Inc. is a publicly traded American educational technology company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol CHGG. For the full year 2025, Chegg reported total net revenues of $376.9 million. As of December 2025, the company had approximately 595 employees.

Chegg operates a direct-to-student learning platform offering a range of academic services. Its primary offerings include digital and physical textbook rentals, online homework help, tutoring, and writing and citation assistance. The company's services, such as Chegg Study, Chegg Writing, and Mathway, are primarily delivered through a subscription model. Chegg has expanded its services to include skills-based learning to help students transition from education to the workforce.

Based on the provided litigation data, Chegg is an operating company that has been a defendant in patent litigation. The company has no record as a plaintiff and is listed as a defendant in one case brought in the plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas. This defensive posture is typical for operating companies targeted by patent assertion entities.

The single tracked case is TQP Development, LLC v. Chegg Inc., filed in 2014 in the Eastern District of Texas. The plaintiff, TQP Development, is a non-practicing entity (NPE) that has filed numerous patent infringement lawsuits against a wide range of companies, often asserting patents related to data encryption technology. The case against Chegg is part of a broader litigation campaign by TQP Development.