Why?

1. Because learning to program is going to be important for everybody in the future.
2. Because Codeacademy's learning approach could work to teach anything.

Blogs from other VCs who invested:

http://bryce.vc/post/12160045727/our-investment-in-code-academy
http://continuations.com/post/12035986819/codecademy
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/10/program-or-be-programmed.html
http://parislemon.com/post/12143041072/this-startup-costs-me-thousands-of-dol...

Impressive site. Check it out: www.codeacademy.com.