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Opportunity India Desk Aug 02, 2019 - 1 min readAtul 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, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 29, 2019 - 1 min readBengaluru-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 ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 27, 2019 - 2 min readEdtech platform Brainly has raised $30 million in its new funding round led by Naspers. Poland-based Brainly is a peer-to-peer learning community for students, parents, and teachers across 35 countries, including India. The funding round has also seen participation from Runa Capital and Manta Ray. With this latest investment, the total funding received by the edtech platform comes to $68.5 million. The fresh capital will be used by the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 23, 2019 - 1 min readEdtech startup Digital Gurukul is planning to raise $5 million funding. The Indore-based company will be utilizing the funds across investment in programs, content facilities, building a global Online tech platform, Franchisee Distribution, marketing (both offline and online) and international expansion. The fresh capital will also be used for the creation of over 40 offline ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 17, 2019 - 1 min readByju's, the world's most valued education technology firm, has seen its valuation rise to $5.5 billion earlier this month, a jump of nearly 53% from December. In order to emerge as India's fourth largest startup, Byju's had raised $540 million at a valuation of $3.6 billion from South African media giant Naspers, Canada Pension Plan ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 15, 2019 - 1 min readPVR Pictures Ltd, motion picture arm of exhibition company PVR Ltd, is eyeing a massive expansion of its film distribution unit in India. The Ajay Bijli-owned company, which was earlier focusing on the distribution of Hollywood films in India, is now planning at distributing Hindi and other Indian language films too. Kamal Gianchandani, Chief Executive ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 11, 2019 - 2 min readByju’s, the education technology firm, has raised $150 million in fresh funding led by Qatar Investment Authority, the Qatar government’s sovereign wealth fund. The round has also seen participation from San Francisco-based Owl Ventures, a leading investor in education technology. The recent investment has valued the startup at $5.7 billion, making Byju’s the fourth most valuable ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 08, 2019 - 2 min readToppr, India’s most advanced and comprehensive mobile application for personalized learning, has signed an MOU with the Mumbai Police to provide their children with a 1-year subscription of the app. The subscription gives access to online classes, adaptive practice and mock tests, giving students personalised learning. ZishaanHayath, CEO of Toppr, said, “We understand that being ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 06, 2019 - 2 min readIn order to drive growth for the brand in Maharashtra, the educational-tech company Byju’s has associated with Zee Marathi’s popular drama series ‘Mazhya Navryachi Bayko’. Atit Mehta, Marketing Head of Byju’s, said, “We were looking at Maharashtra as a key market, one that has a predominant Marathi speaking and viewing audience. If you are looking ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 27, 2019 - 1 min readOnline learning platform Unacademy has raised $50 million in Series D funding round from Steadview Capital, Sequoia India, Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures. The round has also seen participation from Aakrit Vaish, Co-Founder of tech firm Haptik and Sujeet Kumar, Co-Founder of business-to-business online marketplace Udaan, along with Unacademy Founders, Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini. Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder ...