Knorish, a Gurugram-based platform that enables hobbyists, professionals and niche experts to build, launch, market and sell online courses, announced it has raised $3,23,000 as part of its Pre Series A funding round from 100X.VC. Standard Greases Family group and Uday Sodhi, ex-Business Head of Sony Liv also participated in the funding round.
Founded by Kinner N Sacchdev and Rakhi Wadhwa, Knorish offers a feature packed platform enabling businesses, experts, professionals, artists, instructors, specialists, coaches, people seeking work from home opportunities and others to take their business online and sell courses and content from their online stores.
“The best way to do business currently is by going online. Not only do Knorish customers stand to discover newer avenues for revenue, but they will find more users for their training content from around the world faster,” Kinner N Sacchdev, Co-founder of Knorish said.
“Knorish is a great new-age business that is disrupting the online training and education market. Its platform is empowering educational institutes and trainers during the toughest phase of their businesses,” Uday Sodhi, ex-Business Head of Sony Liv.
Ninad Karpe, Partner at 100X.VC, said, “Knorish provides an easy way to create training content, have it on your own website with your brand and domain name, and full control of everything. The funding success of Knorish affirms our belief in the unique model that 100X.VC offers the early-stage startup ecosystem.”
According to the co-founders, the platform’s real strength lies in the ease of use enabled by an appealing UI, and a content engine powered by the videos, blogs, courses, and a strong knowledge base.
The platform offers a host of features such as powerful website builder tool, course builder, pre-integrated payment gateways to automate payment collection, along with hundreds of other tools to quickly launch online academies and businesses. The company claims that more than 1,000 academies have signed up on Knorish in the last 40 days, and several have started earning in lakhs a month already.
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