Competition
Key Takeaways From Gaurav Munjal And Bhavin Turakhia’s Fireside Chat At #TMS2021edit
Inc 42 – Online Web
In a free-flowing conversation, Munjal and Turakhia discussed their approaches to overcome the bias for execution, deciding and validating an idea, evaluating product-market-fit, and coming up with products with 10x improvement. Munjal stressed the importance of trying out many different products – even up to 10 per day – in order to get a first-hand feel of how products work and can be improved. Turakhia on the other hand suggested an innovative test for evaluating product-market-fit: “find out how many of your users will be very disappointed if your product disappeared from their world tomorrow.
Who is Divya Gokulnath : All You Need to Know About Byjus Cofounderedit
She the people – Online Web
Who is Divya Gokulnath, the cofounder of Byju’s Learning App Born to a middle-class family in Bengaluru, Gokulnath’s story started with humble beginnings. A young woman who puts values ahead of everything else, started out as a teacher at Byju’s when the company was just an offline outfit. Her passion for teaching got her to the company but it was her flexibility to learn and adopt to a tech-first environment that got her to surge with Byju’s.
Industry
Marwari Catalysts Ventures-backed Ed-Tech startup, ‘Noesis Learning’ is acquired by India’s leading higher education start-up – ‘ImaginXP’edit
Business Standard – Online Web
India’s fastest growing accelerator platform, Marwari Catalysts Ventures has always set its eyes on the booming sector of our country EdTech. It has passionately supported dozens of EdTech startups since its initiation and today one of its portfolio startups, Noesis Learning is making big headlines as India’s leading and successful higher education startup.
Funding in startups remains abuzz led by Icertisedit
The New Indian Express – Online Web
The startup ecosystem saw a lot of buzz this week with over $150 million fundraise by firms and a few M&As in the short content and edtech verticals. Pune-based Software as a service startup Icertis almost trebled its valuation at 2.8 billion with an 80 million Series F funding from the existent investor, B Capital Group.