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Leap secures $55M in Series C round led by Owl Ventures

Leap has announced that it has secured $55 million in series C funding round led by Owl Ventures. Harvard Management Company as well as Sequoia Capital India and Jungle Ventures also participated in the funding round. Speaking on the funding, Vaibhav Singh, co-founder of Leap, commented, “We have seen an unprecedented demand from students to […]

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Workera.ai Raises $16M in Funding Led by NEA

Workera.ai, the first precision upskilling platform, has announced that it has completed a $16M Series A. This latest round of funding follows a seed round of $5M in October 2020. The Series A was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) alongside existing investors Owl Ventures and AI Fund, as well as AI luminaries Richard Socher […]

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Novakid Raises $35M in Series B to Support Expansion Into New Markets

Novakid, an online language learning platform that provides personalized English learning for kids ages 4-12 through artificial intelligence (AI) and gamification, has announced a $35 million Series B round led by Owl Ventures and Goodwater Capital. The existing investors LETA Capital, PortfoLion, TMT Investments, Xploration Capital and LearnStart also joined the round. Judy Park of […]

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Codecademy Raises $40M in Series D Funding

Codecademy, the online learning platform, has announced its Series D fundraise of $40M led by Owl Ventures and with participation from Prosus and Union Square Ventures. Codecademy will use the capital to accelerate its DTC and B2B growth, including new products and learning solutions, expanded curriculum, and a greater footprint in growing global markets like […]

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Gurugram-based e-learning platform SplashLearn raises $18 mn in Series C funding

SplashLearn, the game-based learning company, has raised $18 million in Series C funding led by Owl Ventures and existing investor Accel, according to ET report. Founded in 2010 by four IIT-Kharagpur alumni, SplashLearn offers Math for Pre-K to Class 5 and reading for Pre-K to Class 2. It adapts to each child’s learning ability and […]

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Online learning platform Byju’s raises $500 mn led by Silver Lake at $10.8 bn valuation

Byju’s announced that it has raised $500 million in a new financing round led by Silver Lake at a $10.8 billion valuation, reports TechCrunch. Existing investors Tiger Global, General Atlantic and Owl Ventures  also participated in the new financing round, India’s second most valuable startup Byju’s said in a statement. “We are excited to welcome […]