Cuemath, a global online math learning platform backed by marquee investors like Alphabet’s independent growth fund CapitalG, Aspada, Falcon Edge, and Sequoia, has announced the appointment of Vivek Sunder as its new Chief Executive Officer. Both Manan’s and Vivek’s roles will take effect from 1 October 2021. Vivek, 47, joins from Swiggy, India’s online food…
Martech SaaS company, Netcore Cloud, has announced its collaboration with India’s EdTech Platform, BYJU’S towards personalizing the student’s learning experience on the mobile app, backed by their No-code Product Experience platform’s consumer data management system, according to a statement. The statement said, “Since the last few years, Netcore Cloud has made major strides in expanding…
TalentSprint, an EdTech platform for DeepTech education and part of the NSE group, has announced a collaboration with Salesforce, focused on skilling college graduates with Salesforce skills for the jobs of the future. The collaboration will focus on training aspiring college graduates (Engineers with a Computer Science / Information Science background, BTech, MCA, BCA) to…
Edtech platform, based in Delhi, Little Leap has announced that it has received Rs 2.67 crore in the seed funding round. The round, led by ah! Ventures, saw participation from Good Capital VC, First Cheque VC, and LetsVenture. Vishal Gupta, Founder of Little Leap, said, “With Little Leap, we aim to empower students to become well-rounded…
Utah-based edtech company Instructure recently announced that it has appointed Steve Daly as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1. Daly’s appointment comes less than three months after Instructure sold itself to private equity firm Thoma Bravo and tangling with shareholders who had laid out a string of complaints long before the sale.…
French IT major Capgemini recently announced that it has partnered with e-learning platform Coursera to help upskill its 270,000 employees globally. The collaboration will help employees develop their skills in several areas including professional services, technology consulting, cloud adoption and sales productivity. The company in an official statement said, “Access to top-quality learning content is…
Edtech streaming platform MasterClass recently announced that it has raised $100million in Series E funding round. The fundraiser was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from new investors including Owl Ventures, 01 Advisors. Existing investors NEA, IVP, Atomico, and NextEquity also participated in the funding round. Founded in 2015, the streaming platform…
Riding on the new wave of increasing user base and sharp growth in business revenues, edtech startups are now raising new funds to improve their services and expand into newer markets. Recently, Ahmadabad based edtech startup Pedagogy has raised $400,000, led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV). Founded by Archin Shah along with Abhilash Sonwane and…
The online learning platforms have lately been witnessing a massive surge in users due to the government imposed nationwide lockdown. Since the New Delhi called for a nationwide lockdown, physical learning taking place in classrooms of colleges, schools or coaching institutes have come to a halt. While schools are having a tough time to connect…
As the coronavirus pandemic has halted onsite learning at school, colleges and tuition, edtech platforms have been witnessing a surge in their user database. Taking into account the demand of these platforms, investors have been aggressively putting their bets on these platforms. Recently, Noida-based Classplus announced that it is set to go ahead with its…
Chennai-based software company Zoho recently announced the launch of a new mobile app, Zoho Classes, to facilitate educational and training institutes to serve their students online. The platform is currently free for all government schools in India and for all other schools outside India it is free for up to 100 students. For every additional…