Competition
Training Basket: Shaping your present for a brighter futureedit
ANI News – Online Training Basket aims to crack edtech by reskilling and upskilling professional students. Noida-based startup Training Basket is an offline and online edtech platform that helps college and professional students gain new technology skills like networking, operating system, cloud computing, programming and coding skills.
9-Year-Old Coders Show How India Is Pioneering Online Educationedit
Bloomberg Quint – Online
Shivank Patel has been learning to write software code for a year, and he’s already built a handful of apps, including one for donating food to street children.
Piyush Goyal says startups demonstrated ability to turn Covid into business potential; hails edtechedit
The Financial Express – Online For instance, Byju’s in April said that 6 million new students accessed free lessons on its platform in March 2020. The company had also launched free ‘Live Classes’. Toppr too had announced free access to live classes and video classes while Unacademy had announced 20,000 free live classes
Exclusive: Advertising body asks WhiteHat Jr to pull down adsedit
Forbes – Online In a major blow to WhiteHat Jr, the Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI) has asked Byjus-owned kids coding startup to pull down its advertisements that it says made dubious and unsubstantiated claims.
CSR: Vedantu donates 150 smartphones to government school students in Telanganaedit
India CSR – Online With online learning, the only way ahead for students in the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, Vedantu, a pioneer and leading LIVE online interactive tutoring platform, has launched an initiative to help and make education accessible to students in rural India.
[TechSparks] Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nirmala Sitharaman, Byju Raveendran and more, on Day 3 of TechSparks 2020edit
Yourstory – Online
The fireside chat with Byju Raveendran, Founder & CEO of BYJUs on Building a multinational edtech startup from India will have rich insights from the founder of India’s celebrated edtech decacorn.
Byju’s-owned Whitehat Jr. asked to take down misleading ads pushing kids to learn codingedit
The Tech Portal – Online Web
WhiteHat Jr, a platform owned by Byjus and based on teaching coding to children from a young age, has recently gone on an advertising spree, which has not to sit well with the audiences.
Advertising body ASCI asks WhiteHat Jr to pull down ads for violating norms: Reportedit
Free Press Journal – Online Web
WhiteHat Jr was acquired by Byjus for $300 million earlier this year. The company that claims to train young kids in coding has invited the wrath of parents and some tech experts for its aggressive marketing strategy.
[TechSparks 2020] There has never been a better time to enter edtech, says Byju Raveendranedit
Your Story – Online Web
However, Byju Raveendran, Founder, and CEO of edtech unicorn BYJUS, said that the market is nowhere close to saturation and that now is not a time to exit but time to enter for most edtech startups.
[TechSparks 2020] BYJUs and WhiteHat Jr. hired over 20,000 employees amid COVID19; more than 11,000 women aredit
Your Story – Online Web
In a virtual fireside chat with YourStory Founder and CEO, Shradha Sharma, Edtech entrepreneur and Founder and CEO, Byjus, Byju Raveendran said that his startup and the recently acquired coding learning platform WhiteHat Jr. has created over 20,000 job opportunities in the last six months.
Industry
Even if schools do not open this academic year, learning will not stop with online educationedit
The Financial Express – Online This app becomes the main app of concept development rather than a supplementary app for explanations and very soon the app will be upgraded with new features and will be called mylestone app instead of myStudygear to reflect.
VC Flow Drops 17% In 2020 To $6.5 Bnedit
Business Standard – Print ( Delhi Mumbai Kolkata Bangalore Chennai Hyderabad )
The funding was led by education, real estate and fintech. Investors say investment activity will increase in the coming months because Covid-19 has opened several new and first-time opportunities for startups as consumer habits are changing. Fintech, edtech and consumer-driven start-ups are likely to raise more funds and grow faster. With nearly $1 billion fundraise, Byju’s Classes topped the table in 2020
Jan to Sep VC investments down nearly 17 per cent YoY to $6.5 billionedit
Business Standard – Online
Venture Intelligence data shows, with nearly $1 billion fund raise, Byjus Classes topped the table in 2020. The company raised the money in four tranches from various investors including TPG Capital, Tiger Global, ChrysCapital, Silver Lake, Owl Ventures, Sands Capital, General Atlantic and others.
Does This Tech Give The Quietest Student A Voiceedit
Businessworld – Online
Though we have almost 4500 EdTech companies in the country, some like BYJUS, Toppscholars, Doubtnut, GradeUp, TestBook, Toppr, Unacademy and Vedantu are seeing a surge in business. Most of them cater to K12, JEE, NEET, CAT, IAS, GRE, and GMAT.
Advertising body ASCI asks WhiteHat Jr to pull down ads for violating norms: Reportedit
Free Press Journal – Online Web
WhiteHat Jr was acquired by Byjus for $300 million earlier this year. The company that claims to train young kids in coding has invited the wrath of parents and some tech experts for its aggressive marketing strategy.
[TechSparks 2020] There has never been a better time to enter edtech, says Byju Raveendranedit
Your Story – Online Web
However, Byju Raveendran, Founder, and CEO of edtech unicorn BYJUS, said that the market is nowhere close to saturation and that now is not a time to exit but time to enter for most edtech startups.
[TechSparks 2020] BYJUs and WhiteHat Jr. hired over 20,000 employees amid COVID19; more than 11,000 women aredit
Your Story – Online Web
In a virtual fireside chat with YourStory Founder and CEO, Shradha Sharma, Edtech entrepreneur and Founder and CEO, Byjus, Byju Raveendran said that his startup and the recently acquired coding learning platform WhiteHat Jr. has created over 20,000 job opportunities in the last six months.
[TechSparks 2020] Consumers have never been hungrier or more open to change, says AWS Puneet Chandokedit
Your Story – Online Web
Several notable Indian startups such as Swiggy, Zomato, redBus, Ola, OYO, Razorpay, Unacademy, ixigo, etc., are building their products with AWS. Watch Puneet Chandoks full keynote address at TechSparks 2020.