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Indian EdTech Startups That Help Kids with English Learningedit
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Stones2Milestones Stones2milestones is on a mission to Create a Nation of Readers. They believe that a child who doesn’t read at grade-level-expectancy by class 4 will never catch up! They want to make learning to read a conscious design of the curriculum. The focus is on enabling the skill to make reading easy and also on developing the will to make reading enjoyable.
Competition
Unacademy adds Vibrant Academy Kota to its portfolioedit
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Unacademy, India‘s leading learning platform has made Kota based Coaching institute Vibrant Academy, as an exclusive online partner. Vibrant Academy has a proven track record of producing top rankers in IIT JEE exams.
Why Edtech Players Have Their Valuations Growing At Breakneck Speededit
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Live classes offered by edtech companies are increasingly considered a practical alternative to offline coaching classes, and startups like Unacademny and Vedantu are expected to double down on the model.
WhiteHat Jr brings in Hrithik Roshan for new campaignedit
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The move clearly states WhiteHat Jrs intention to scale up in the market and cut across the audiences. For the record, WhiteHat Jr was bought out by Byju’s in August this year for $300 million in an all cash deal. Byju’s acquired the platform with the objective to drive its ever widening reach in the edtech space in the country.
5 Ways To Make Extra Money Onlineedit
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Platforms like Learnpick.in, Vedantu.com, BharatTutors.com all let you sign up for free. The best thing is, you can start by earning $3 for one hour of class, and as you gain experience, the fees can go upto $6 per hour even if you don’t have any knowledge of online tutoring, nothing to worry about.
Vedantu sees multifold growth in TS user baseedit
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Online learning platform which pioneered live tutoring in India, Vedantu is seeing a surge in its user base in Telangana. The State is a focus market for the company owing to its large student base and teacher community hailing from the region.
Top Trends in EdTech To Watch Out For in 2021 founder INDIAedit
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Previously while we saw only a few EdTech’s like Unacademy, Vedantu and MyCaptain focusing on Live Classes, now everyone has started having a piece of the pie. When COVID times hit, the surge in engagement rates was amazing, hence more interest of EdTech’s and investors towards the same.
5 Indian Leaders you Need to follow on LinkedInedit
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Divya Gokulnath, the cofounder of BYJU’s made her mark assisting her husband Byju Raveendran building the first EdTech company that has a net worth of whooping 5.4 billion valuation. The teacher in her, finds the space while frequently posting about what he thinks will constitute the future of education.
How this edtech startup is democratising education in over 15 countriesedit
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While BYJU’s touched the $12 billion valuation mark, Unacademy entered the unicorn club this year. Players like Vedantu and Toppr have also gained traction amidst the pandemic. However, Sridhar believes what separates a two-decade old company like EI from the edtech startups is its method of incorporating research into learning.
EdTech startup Habitat secures USD 676,700 to strengthen growthedit
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Apparently, ed-tech companies have attracted a lot of investors during the pandemic. One of the prominent investments was in Unacademy which raised USD 150 million in funding led by SoftBank in September.
Amid Lawsuits, WhiteHat Jr Cuts Down On Controversial Ads; But Is It Enoughedit
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WhiteHat Jr is embroiled in two defamation lawsuits, both of which have some involvement of the company’s ads Under fire for running misleading ads and even creating imaginary characters to promote its platform BYJU’S-owned WhiteHat Jr is looking to clean up its act by discarding the campaign.
Industry
Will EdTech survive post pandemicedit
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While adjusting to the new normal during the pandemic, there is one more thing that we have all gotten used to and that is EdTech. But will EdTech continue to be part of the new normal, even as the vaccine comes, is what will be discussed in this episode of Startup Central Nayantara Rai holds this very interesting discussion, with a group of panelists which include Saurav Saxena, Ankur Mittal, Anuradha Aggarwal, and Archin Shah.
When Schools Went Virtual, Seesaw Refocused on Its Mission and Tripled Its Revenueedit
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In January, Sjogreen saw that his education app, Seesaw, was experiencing a drastic uptick in new accounts in Asia. By the following month, some students were posting projects on it at 10 times the normal frequency.
How eLearning Platforms Are Transforming Indian Education Landscapeedit
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Evidently, the rapid climb of edtech startups happened thanks to an exponential rise in internet penetration. There are 687 active million internet users at present with a consistent increase in internet accessibility compared to five years ago, when the internet penetration rate was just around 27 percent.
EdTech Startup Tinker Coders raises undisclosed amount of funding from its parent company, STEMROBO Technologiesedit
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Tinker Coders, an online coding platform for K12 students, has raised an undisclosed amount in the seed funding round from its parent company, STEMROBO Technologies, an EdTech company, providing one-stop learning solutions in STEM and Robotics to K12 Students.
Digital learning startup KopyKitab raises undisclosed amount from investors Pacatolus and others Technology Newsedit
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TechSamvad Bengaluru-based edtech startup KopyKitab has raised an undisclosed funding amount from a clutch of institutional and angel investors. The investors include the likes of Pacatolus (Singapore), Stanford Angels (led by Paula Mariwala), and other angel investors such as Praveen Gandhi, Jeenendra Bhandari, Mohit Dubey, and Manoj Mehta.
Department of School Education, Patiala to strengthen teaching and learning practices in government schoolsedit
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ConveGenius (an EdTech platform) and Sanjhi Sikhiya have partnered with the Department of School Education to launch a WhatsApp based teaching and learning solution under its My Phone My School program.
Best five startups who have emerged as mentors for a better survival strategy in the Job Marketedit
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edWisor: It is a leading edTech and HR-tech e-learning platform aimed at skilling the workforce for technology careers and making learners readily deployable in tech portfolios. It has held 12,000+ hours of live classes and arranged 10,000+ job interviews since its inception.
today he motivates young people to learn to codeedit
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The course costs US $ 9.99 and is one of the most complete on the platform. In the case of acquiring the course and paying by credit card, 35% tax will not be charged since the new stocks do not reach educational platforms. Monthly payments on platforms like Coursera, Khan Academy, edX are exempt from the resolution. After purchasing the course through Udemy, access to content will be forever.
Breakthrough Prize Foundation Announces Student Winner of Sixth Annual Breakthrough Junior Challengeedit
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Maryam and all of the impressive finalists demonstrated a keen appreciation for science. Khan Academy is proud to partner with the Challenge to expand minds all over the world with deep ideas in science and math.