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Opportunity India Desk Feb 10, 2023 - 4 min read1M1B (One Million for One Billion) – India’s largest organisation that is developing and mobilizing the future technology workforce –has launched the Digital Nagrik Campaign led by teachers and academic advisors managed by 1M1B supported by Meta Platforms Inc. Digital Nagrik will develop a community of responsible digital citizens who are aware of their digital rights ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 20, 2023 - 2 min readWith an aim to help engineers become more employable, India's leading engineering edtech company, Skill-Lync has announced its partnership with Mangalayatan University, one of India's most renowned universities. The Mangalayatan University will integrate Skill-Lync's courses across domains into its curriculum and provide students with the latest industry-relevant courses as part of their learning journey with ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 22, 2022 - 3 min readEducation Content Company, S Chandand Company Limited has announced its plans to share all of its stakes in the Ed Tech platform iNeuron Intelligence Private Limited to Physicswallah for INR 14 Cr. iNeuron is an Artificial Intelligence and Data Science focussed education technology platform. Moreover, other investors like Mukesh Sharma Family Trust will also exit ...
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Opportunity India Desk Dec 12, 2022 - 2 min readAiming to narrow the gap between parents and teachers through parent-teacher communication software and ERP management solutions, Uolo, an edtech startup raised USD 22.5 million in funding in a Series-A round led by UAE-headquartered VC Fund Winter Capital. According to the official statement, in the round of funding, the participation of existing venture capitalists Blume ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 09, 2022 - 3 min readJust a week after its third acquisition in a month, leading online education platform upGrad has raised USD 210 million in a fresh funding round becoming an outlier in an otherwise slow edtech market in India. The funding round was led by US testing and assessment provider ETS Global and Bodhi Tree, an investment vehicle ...
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Opportunity India Desk Aug 04, 2022 - 2 min readAs part of its restructuring exercise, edtech unicorn Vedantu has handed out pink slips to around 100 employees. It is the third lay off in the company as it had fired 624 full-time and contractual staffers in two batches in May this year comprising 10 per cent of its workforce. The online education platform’s ...
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Opportunity India Desk Mar 14, 2022 - 5 min readStartups in India are growing rapidly in every field, edtech companies have also played an important role in this. However, it is a recently launched concept in India and gained huge momentum during the pandemic. Opportunity knocks at every man's door, the same happened with edtech companies. Today India's edtech industry is the second largest ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jan 12, 2021 - 4 min readupGrad, India's largest online higher education company, has signalled its commitment to growing its presence across Asia-Pacific, with the appointment of Zubin Gandevia as CEO for the region. A respected entertainment industry leader, Zubin most recently served as President, Asia Pacific, and the Middle East, at FOX Networks Group Asia (part of the Walt Disney Co.). In ...
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Opportunity India Desk Oct 07, 2020 - 2 min readHigher edtech leader upGrad released the Q2 business performance results, which reports a 50% growth in their gross revenue, thus keeping the company on track for its forecasted Rs 1200 crore annual run rate. The growth has been multifaceted this quarter: - 20 new programs were added in Q2 in the areas of Marketing, Finance, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 27, 2020 - 2 min readToppr, India's most advanced and comprehensive mobile application for personalized learning, has announced the launch of Toppr Codr, one-on-one live coding classes for children aged between 6 and 18 years. The company is pumping $6 Million to expand operations for Toppr Codr for hiring, operations, technology and marketing purposes. Toppr Codr will teach young ...