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Indian edtech startups received over $2.22 billion funding in 2020 as compared to $553 million in 2019edit
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Byju’s and Unacademy have raised the most capital, $2.32 billion and $354 million, respectively, in 2020, while B2B edtech received a total funding of $31 million in 2017-2020.
10 Most Successful Tech CEOs of The Decadeedit
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Byju Raveendran, Byjus: Byju Raveendran, a teacher by profession, launched BYJUs The Learning App, his flagship product in 2011 for school students. The focus of this learning App was to provide online coaching to fourth to 12th class students. Today, the app has more than 3.50 lakhs annual subscriptions with an average of 40 minutes a day and more than 6 million downloads.
Edtech funding boom hides gaps in what is being offerededit
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The funding boom has been skewed towards leading edtech players that were already growing fast in the areas of test prep and bringing K-12 tuitions online. Byju’s alone cornered more than $1.3 billion of the edtech funding in India this year, followed by $264 million for Unacademy and $144 million for Vedantu.
App-solutely every person on Earth!edit
The New Indian Express – Hyderabad Bangalore Chennai
In India alone, a number of new educational apps popped up in a bid to help students. Platforms like BYJU’s, Coursera, Unacademy and Toppr saw a meteoric rise of users who used their spare time to catch up on subjects and topics they always wanted to learn about.
[YS Learn] Pitching tips to understanding the market and selling right, what startup founders advised in 2020edit
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The journey of WhiteHat Jr is unique. The startup has been in the news ever since edtech unicorn BYJUS acquired it for $300 million. Founded in 2018 by former Discovery Networks CEO Karan Bajaj, WhiteHat Jr offers AI courses to children aged six to 14 years
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This woman entrepreneur aims to make children future-ready by introducing them to STEM, roboticsedit
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Recently, Dimple got an opportunity to participate in a women edtech cohort organised by Qualcomm. Attending the virtual programme gave me a well-planned crash course in addressing the issues inherent to being an entrepreneur.
Students Set High Hopesedit
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Ram Alluri, an engineering graduate from Hyderabad, who dreamt of pursuing Masters abroad in 2020 had to postpone all his plans due to the lockdown and pandemic. He says, “I began my preparation for Ielts and was looking for admission in a foreign university in March, suddenly lockdown was announced and I had to postpone my plan for 2021. I hope things will settle down by next academic year.”
Students ready to study abroad with new normaledit
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To keep the learning curve intact, we started with training teachers to enable them to teach in an online environment. We were able to train over 10,000 teachers and imbibe them with the skills essential for teaching online.
Rethinking kids education in the year of covidedit
Live Mint – Online Web
They looked at a number of edtech platforms but felt dissatisfied with how these offerings aligned with what they wanted for their kids, which was inquiry-led learning. I didn’t want my kids to learn to remember things; I wanted them to learn to apply it to real-world problems, says Aradhana.
Education 2020: The lessons that were learnededit
The New Indian Express – Online Web
While 2020 was a terrible year over all, necessity is the mother of invention, or in this case, innovation, as the field of education saw a huge spurt towards digital learning this year. As schools were forced to shut and students had to turn to online classes and learning, various educational groups launched apps and tools to help children at home.
Ecommerce to edtech, startup firms bloom amid Covid19 pandemic gloomedit
Business Standard – Online Web
The Covid19 crisis has catapulted a new breed of startups to stardom which are lapping up the opportunities thrown by the pandemic and disrupting old business models with their innovations.