With latest $1M funding, university admissions startup AdmitKard eyes to expand footprint across 100+ Indian cities

AdmitKard, the study abroad admissions startup, has secured $1 million in pre-Series A round led by Australian EdTech fund Growth DNA. Other investors based out of Australia and India have also participated in this round.

Piyush Bhartiya, Co-Founder of AdmitKard, said, “We will use the capital to enhance our product, strengthen our AI-driven counselling algorithms, and blockchain managed partner contracts. We also plan to rapidly expand our presence across 100+ cities in India through our already thriving partner network.” 

Founded by Piyush Bhartiya and Rachit Agrawal, Noida-based AdmitKard offers a “course to career” solution for students who are looking for cross-border admissions into universities and colleges. 

“AdmitKard is a data-enabled social platform which helps in eliminating information asymmetry and building trust among aspirants,” said Rachit. "It is a socially active platform by the students, for the students. Current students are passionate to guide aspirants on AdmitKard as they feel they were misguided when they were applying to study abroad,” Bhartiya further stated.

AdmitKard helps students for applying to over 1,000 universities and colleges in countries like the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many more. With more than 100,000 courses listed on the platform, the startup claims to cover 95% of the global requirement of international students.

Dheeraj Bhatia, Co-Founder of Kips Learning Solutions, who led the deal from India, said, “Student experience for college admissions both for India and international and allied services are broken and underserved. The AdmitKard approach of product and network is the key to solve the scalability issue of this domain, and will enable us to serve students from around the world.”