edtech startups

New Delhi: Upskilling and higher learning edtech upGrad on Monday announced the launch of its philanthropic and not-for-profit division called upGrad Foundation. With a corpus of Rs 50 crore, the foundation intends to focus on a variety of…

Bengaluru: Edtech startup, Classplus which helps educators and content creators launch online courses, has raised $70 million in its latest round of funding co-led by Alpha Wave Global and Tiger Global. Classplus’ valuation is estimated to…

Bengaluru: Ahmedabad-based edtech startup Saarthi Pedagogy has raised Rs 16 crore in a funding round led by Pinnacle Investments. “We look forward to building a sustainable and capital-efficient ed-tech business that will truly impact the…

The Finance Bill 2022, which includes the new taxes on crypto assets, was passed in the Lok Sabha this evening. There was a lively debate on the subject before that, during which a BJP MP repeated his previous calls for a ban on crypto,…

Chennai: The most popular sector among student founders in India is edtech, which dominates with a 5.6% share in high resource campuses (HRCs) and 10.7% in medium resource campuses (MRCs), Campus Fund said in its report titled 'State of…

Bengaluru: Top Indian edtech startups such as Byju’s, Unacademy, upGrad, which had recently formed a consortium for self-regulation, are now consulting with the Advertising Standards Council of India to address one of the most critical…

The University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education have told educational institutes to cancel their partnerships with edtech firms or face being derecognised. This comes a week after we reported that…

Mumbai: Cracking down on educational institutes that join hands with edtech companies to offer online or conventional programmes, the University Grants Commission and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have warned them of…

Edtech firm Lead School has raised $100 million from investors led by GSV Ventures and WestBridge Capital, doubling its valuation in less than a year to $1.1 billion. The Mumbai-based company, which provides tech-enabled solutions to…

Mumbai: Owl Ventures, a global venture capital fund, has raised more than $1 billion across three new funds to double down on education technology—its key focus area. The Silicon Valley-based company closed a $640 million fifth fund, a $270…