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[Funding alert] Edtech startup Lead School raises $30M in Series D led by GSV Ventures Lead School will use this round of fresh capital to accelerate its growth plans through brand branding, product roll-out, acquisitions, and hiring. 0 claps $30 million in Series D funding round led by global VC fund GSV Ventures along with WestBridge Capital, an existing investor. According to a statement by Lead School, this is GSV Venture’s first major investment in an India-based edtech firm. The startup had last raised $28 million in Series C round in August 2020 which was led by WestBridge and Eleva...

This woman entrepreneur’s edtech startup aims to remove the ‘rote’ from learning Practically, co-founded by Charu Noheria, Subbarao Siddabattula, and Ilangovel Thulasimani, combines gamification techniques, immersive learning assets, test prep, and an AI-assisted study buddy in one compact cross-platform app. 0 claps Share on Charu Noheria’s parents, both doctors, held comfortable jobs as medical officers at a government-run institution. In their early 30s, they quit to start their own venture and ran their own nursing home for decades successfully. Charu, the Co-founder and COO of ed...

In an effort to create equal opportunities and inspire more people to turn their passions into professions, Guru Randhawa joined Whiz League, as a strategic partner. Whiz League is a learning EdTech startup that offers pre-recorded courses by industry experts and leading new age professions.

For Ravish Agarwal, Siddharth Srivastava, and Swatantra Kumar, the world of edtech, startups, and skilling was nothing new. In fact, Ravish was already running an edtech startup and was also managing the India B2C business for an American education company, Udacity. Siddhartha and Swatantra have collective experience in companies like — Udacity, Placement, Lendingkart, and Yatra.  All the exposure to the startup and edtech world meant the trio felt there was a large gap to be addressed. “We were coaching BA, BBA, and BCom graduates for college exams, and that is when we realised that...

B2B edtech startup Classplus, which raised three rounds of funding in 2020, saw its tutor base grow 10X and topline surge 400 percent in the pandemic.