Leading online curated learning platform Career Anna has raised Rs 3 crore funding structured financing from a group of angel investors.
The Funding will be used to launch a series of online learning programs like Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, DevOps and other new-technology fields where demand for talent far exceeds supply.
Founded in 2014, Career Anna is on the mission to empower over 500 million students and professionals across India and emerging countries, with opportunities and skills in high growth careers of their choice. The efforts aim at providing an end to end solution to the opportunities, skill and employability problem as per industry needs. With a vision to transform over 1 million lives by 2020, Career Anna has already positively impacted 25000+ students and professionals.
“We bring in select experts and professionals from academia and industry to leverage our technology platform to create video driven online learning courses, and then take these courses to learners with the assurance of quantitative and positive outcomes.” says Varun Saxena, CEO, Career Anna.
The platform helps students, professionals & others to prepare for exams, learning skills to get into high growth careers.
To use this platform users need to select option in career paths & job roles they want, select the program to acquire industry skills or ace an entrance exam, do real life industry projects and get hired by the ever growing list of partner companies.
“We pair each student with an industry mentor/alumnus of top institute, resulting in 94% course completion rate, which is significantly higher than other platforms offering MOOC. 82% NPS and more than 40% non incentivised referral rate reflect customer satisfaction.” said Ayushi Marwah, Head Operations, Career Anna.