Competition
Online learning is new normal: Edukemy CEOedit
The Times of India – Print
Online education is expected to grow from $470 million in 2019 to $1,765 million by 2022, a 3.8x growth in mere three years in India. Talking about how his edtech outfit is building a comprehensive platform to offer personalised learning experiences, Panigrahi said: “Our priority is to scale the learning experience for every individual.” TNN
Bengaluru edtech start up wants to score big with quiz for kidsedit
The Indian Express – Online web
The ongoing pandemic has radically changed the edtech market in India, and Ravis QShala has also benefited. Although not a free platform, Ravi says to support an existing business model he needs to charge a subscription fee for conducting quizzes. It’s exactly like how Netflix works.
Industry
Edtech in 2020: It was a year to thriveedit
The Financial Express – Online Web
One of the most successful platforms within the edtech industry has been the one catering to finance related educational courses. By Vineet Patawari, The heydays of Covid19 instilled in many the feelings of hopelessness and fear. The mighty human civilisation had, for the first time in recent history.
The future we seekedit
Daily Pioneer – Online Web
However, despite these depressing statistics, the pandemic has had some positive impact as well. EdTech seems to be rising steadily, and the industry is gearing up to hit 350 billion USD worth in the next five years. With Open Source Education like Khan Academy and YouTube, millions of lives are transforming for fre
EdTech start-ups on a roll, raise funding of $2.2 billion in 2020edit
The Hindu Business Line – Delhi | Mumbai | Kolkata | Chennai | Hyderabad | Bangalore | Kochi
In 2019, EdTech start-ups raised investments of $553 million. As many as 92 players received funding in 2020, of which 61 players received seed funding, the report showed. BYJU’s and Unacademy raised the most capital, $2.32 billion and $354 million, respectively, in 2020. B2B EdTech received total funding of $31 million in 2017-20.
Inside the Rumble In India’s Coding Jungleedit
Mint – Delhi | Bangalore | Chennai | Mumbai | Ahmedabad
These include Byju’s two largest rivals Unacademy and Vedantu as well as Camp K-12, whose founder had helped develop Scratch, a coding language designed for children, while he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Scratch is one of the main platforms used by WhiteHat Jr.
[Money Matters in the rear-view mirror When hope emerged as a common theme within the Indian start-up ecosystemedit
Yourstory – Online Web
The list is long and distinguished, from CREDs Kunal Shah to PVRs Ajay Bijli, Book My Shows Ashish Hemrajani, Lenskarts Peyush Bansal to WOW Skin Sciences Manish Chowdhary, and Unacademys Gaurav Munjal, among several others.