Byju’s better half
Wearing multiple hats—teacher, entrepreneur, content developer, mother—Divya Gokulnath has helped build India's largest edtech company.
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Digital insurer raises funds amid edtech spurt
Edtech startups in India have captured a large chunk of venture capital investments since early this year; Amazon-backed Acko is among a handful of non-edtech startups to raise top dollar.
Unacademy raises $150 mn from SoftBank, others
The deal values the Bengaluru-based edtech company at $1.45 billion, making it the latest entrant to India’s $1-billion valuation club.
Edtech, telehealth startups’ moment under the sun
While the adoption of such services has shot up, the real task is to keep the momentum going after the impact of Covid-19 wears off.
For edtech startups, it’s raining money
Tracxn data reveals that Bengaluru-based companies attracted the lion’s share (about $944 million) of investments in the edtech space in the last one year, the highest across cities in India.
Coursera targets 100 million learners in 2-3 years: CEO
CEO Jeff Maggioncalda says India is the second-largest country after the U.S. in terms of number of users on the platform, and it is betting on a freemium model to boost its business in the country.
Edtech firm Vedantu raises $42 million
Marquee investors Tiger Global and WestBridge Capital led the Series C round of funding, which also saw participation from Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein.
‘There won’t be many, but handful of super apps in each region’
GGV Capital’s Hans Tung says super apps will help take a bigger share of the consumers’ wallet, and sees Swiggy becoming a super app in India.
