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Bengaluru-based education and learning app Byju's is planning to expand in international English speaking markets. Recently, India’s fastest rising tech start-up has replaced Chinese smartphone brand Oppo as the sponsor of the Indian national cricket team till 2022.  Byju’s is making plans to roll out its platform internationally in English speaking markets like the US ...

Atul Nishar, Founder of Hexaware Technologies, has started an education technology company, Azent Overseas Education, along with his daughter Priyanka. The new edtech company offers online and offline counselling for overseas education. It seeks to provide guidance to students in selecting the right course and university in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, ...

San Francisco and Bengaluru-based Playshifu, which makes augmented reality-based educational toys for kids, has secured $7 million in Series A funding round led by Chiratae, Inventus Capital and Bharat Innovation Fund. The round has also seen participation from existing investor IDFC-Parampara Fund. The fresh capital will be used by the company towards tech innovation, research on unique phygital interactions and new product developments. Playshifu also plans ...

Vedantu, an online tutoring startup, has raised Rs 9.42 crore in debt and preference funding from Trifecta Capital. This round is likely to value the company at around $100 million. In April, the Bengaluru-based startup had raised Rs 8 crore in April. In addition to this, it raised Rs 1.4 crore in Series B in the months of May and June. ...

Brainly, the world’s largest online peer-to-peer academic learning community, has registered a stellar count of over 12 million answers given by India’s user-base till date. India is one of the fastest-growing communities for Brainly. The edtech platform’s user-base is majorly based out of Pune, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. It has also witnessed users hailing from Tier-II ...

Vedantu, live online tutoring start-up, has secured $42 Million in a Series C funding round led by Tiger Global and WestBridge Capital. The round has also seen participation from existing investors Accel, Omidyar India and TAL Education. Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein & CEO, LGT group, which is the largest family-owned private banking and asset management ...

Udemy has introduced its corporate learning platform Udemy for Business in India. The edtech platform’s Udemy for Business is a subscription-based offering that includes 3,500 of Udemy’s business and technical courses. Irwin Anand, Managing Director of Udemy in India, said, “The launch of Udemy for Business in India is perfectly timed as companies across India ...

Adda247, the online learning platform, has secured $6 million in Series B funding round led by Infoedge (India) Ltd and Asha Impact. The round has also seen participation from its current investor STL. With this latest round, the edtech platform has raised a total of $10 million of funds to date. The fresh funds will ...

KidsChaupal, an online platform designed exclusively for children and young adults to nurture their talents, has announced its entry in the startup ecosystem of the country. KidsChaupal has been designed in a way to create a support system for kids, teachers/coaches and parents to guide and choose the right career path and skill sets required ...

Eupheus Learning, India’s first company to bring end-to-end educational solutions to kids, has partnered with Highlights for Children, International to bring Zaner-Bloser handwriting solutions to India. Zaner-Bloser, part of the Highlights Family of Companies, is the world’s oldest globally acclaimed handwriting solutions company. In this light, they will also be organizing the first edition of ...