Online learning platform, Unacademy has announced the appointment of Sandhydeep Purri as the Chief People Officer. Purri has 25 years of experience in leadership roles across industries and driving large-scale changes that transform businesses by keeping people at the centre. Before joining Unacademy, Purri held the position of Chief People Officer at Sapphire Foods, overseeing…
Edtech startup Unacademy appointed Deepinder Goyal, Founder & CEO, Zomato on the company’s Board of Directors. Deepinder is an investor in Unacademy and participated in the company’s Series H fundraise in August. Commenting on the development, Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder & CEO, Unacademy Group said, “Deepinder has been an advisor for several years and it was…
Unacademy, India’s e-learning platform, announced the acquisition of Rheo TV, a platform that helps professional game streamers livestream their gameplays and monetize those feeds. As part of the deal, Unacademy will fully acquire Rheo TV, and enable the exit of all existing investors, the company said in its statement. Existing investors Lightspeed India Partners, Sequoia…
Pratilipi, an online storytelling platform that enables writers to share their work in various formats, announced it has raised $48 million in a new financing round led by Krafton. South Korean gaming giant Krafton led the Series D round for the seven-year-old Bengaluru-based startup, bringing its to-date raise to $78.8 million. Existing investor Omidyar Network India…
Edtech unicorn Unacademy announced that it is acquiring a majority stake in TapChief, a professional networking startup. The deal valued TapChief at ₹100 crore. This is the seventh acquisition by Unacademy in the last one year. Post acquisition, TapChief’s investors that include Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma, CRED’s Kunal Shah, Blume Ventures among others, will be…
Unacademy, India’s leading learning platform, announced it has raised a fresh investment round from Tiger Global Management and Dragoneer Investment Group. The funding round values Unacademy Group at $2 billion. The latest fund raise follows a round in Sept. 2020 when the company raised an investment of $150 Million in a round led by SoftBank…
Unacademy, a Bengaluru-based online learning platform that provides educational content such as video lectures and examinations, announced it has acquired Coursavy, a New Delhi-based test preparation startup for an undisclosed sum. The move will strengthen Unacademy’s position in the UPSC examinations category. Founded in 2019 by Vimal Singh Rathore, Coursavy has over 70,000 learners on…
TrulyMadly, an Indian-origin online dating and matchmaking platform for serious dating, announced that it has raised about Rs 8.1 crores from a bunch of angel investors and a venture capital firm, as per ETtech report. It raised pre-Series A funding from AngelList, Inflection Point Ventures (IPV), and The Chennai Angels (TCA). The round includes investments…
Tring, a Mumbai-based celebrity engagement platform, announced it has raised funds from top entrepreneurs and startup investors including Kalyan Krishnamurthy of Flipkart, Sujeet Kumar of Udaan, Gaurav Munjal of Unacademy, Keshav Sanghi of VentureWorks India, Roman Saini of Unacademy, Hemesh Singh of Unacademy, and Sumit Jain of Opentalk amongst others. Earlier, the startup had raised…
Unacademy, a Bengaluru- based education technology startup, announced it has acquired Kreatryx, an online preparation platform for various competitive exams including Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering or GATE in a cash-and-stock deal. Post acquisition, Kreatryx will continue to operate as an individual entity. Kreatryx, a New Delhi-based online platform was founded by Ankit Goyal in…