Habitat, an ed-tech platform for civil servant aspirants, has raised Rs 5 crore in its seed funding round.
The startup raised the funds from impact investment firm Unitus Ventures and Whiteboard Capital, Habitat said in a statement.
The startup will use the funds to strengthen its team and upgrade its technology, Habitat CEO Rohit Pande said.
Founded in 2016 by Rohit Pande and Shikhar Sachan, Habitat centralizes all learning activities like discussions, doubt-solving, assistive learning, study-plan iterations, on-demand lectures, notes sharing, assessments, etc. under one platform.
Operated by Apeirogon Technologies Pvt Ltd, Habitat aims to address the gap in enabling social learning for people preparing for administrative examinations using machine learning and natural language processing.
The startup says it currently serves information-heavy exam segments conducted by Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), State Provincial Civil Services (PCS) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). It aims to enter the concept-heavy competitive exam segment such as Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) and pre-medical test (PMT).
The startup offers these courses in Hindi and English and aims to add other languages as well. It said it has more than 10,000 subscribers. About 60% of the registered users of Habitat are from Tier-II and Tier-III cities, it added.
Will Poole, managing partner at Unitus, said ed-tech is a burgeoning sector, with mobile-first learning leading the growth.
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