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Funding Round- Collegedunia Raises 3 crores Funding, IAN Invests In UK Based Startup Ascema

19Feb By PriyankaNo Comments

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Funding Round- Collegedunia Raises 3 crores Funding, IAN Invests In UK Based Startup Ascema

Delhi-based Collegedunia has raised Rs 3 crore in Pre-Series A funding round from Umang Kumar, co-founder and, CEO of Gaadi. Collegedunia is an extensive search engine for the students, parents, and education industry players who are seeking information on the higher education sector in India and abroad. The startup was founded in 2014 by Sahil Chalana who is an Alumni from BITS Pilani. As per the data of company Collegedunia have 40000+ unique visitors per day and it comes under 2000 website. The company claims to scale up its traffic up to 1 Lac+ in next few months. Collegedunia has also launched an app and received 10000 installs. Collegedunia claims to feature 12000colleges/institutes/Universities and fees structure on its platform. Collegedunia covers areas like fee, placement, a...

Apple Acquired Education Technology Startup LearnSprout

29Jan By AnkitaNo Comments

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Apple Acquired Education Technology Startup LearnSprout

Apple Inc announced that it has acquired an education technology startup called LearnSprout in a drive to expand it's initiative to make the iPad the future of education. LearnSprout, and their CEO Franklin Chien have been working diligently on creating a new type of educational software, which is already used in 2,500 school districts within the United States. The acquisition is possibly an important one for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), as they have already been pushing education tools for the iPad into school districts around the nation. As for the price that Apple paid, or just what their plans may be to integrate LearnSprout into their current educational framework, the company refused to say. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time, and we generally do not discus...

From Flatchat to Unacademy to Convincing an IAS to Quit his job – Gaurav Munjal’s Story

11Jan By No Comments

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From Flatchat to Unacademy to Convincing an IAS to Quit his job – Gaurav Munjal’s Story

(The article was written by Gaurav Munjal in November 2015) As I look back at the journey of Flat.to, and now Flatchat, I remember my college days when a broker would give me 10% commission for every friend I referred to him. Soon we ended up creating a small platform for students to help them find accommodation in Juhu and Andheri. Then magic started to happen, a few months later I met Aakrit Vaish who came to give a guest talk at my college and he immediately offered me funding. I didn’t take it, because at that point of time according to everyone else leaving Directi’s offer would have been stupid. In retrospect, one year of Directi was an experience I kind of needed because it helped me a lot in the way I have done things in the companies I started. But then one year later I did ...

Gurgaon based Aspiring Minds has acquired online and mobile internship platform, Letsintern

21Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Gurgaon based Aspiring Minds has acquired online and mobile internship platform, Letsintern

Online skills assessment company Aspiring Minds has acquired online and mobile internship platform, Letsintern, for an undisclosed amount in an all-cash deal. "The constant feedback we got from organisations was that people need practical knowledge and training," said Himanshu Aggarwal, CEO of Aspiring Minds, who cofounded the company with Varun Aggarwal in 2008. "Internship has been underplayed for a long time and it is an important part of the overall mix." Although the company declined to reveal details of the transaction, it said that as part of the transaction, it would invest $2-3 million in the next two years in the internship space. Founded in 2010 by Rishabh Gupta and Pranay Swarup, Letsintern has a network of 4-million students and has helped over 22,000 organisations such ...

Tata Trusts, Khan Academy enter five-year pact to develop free, high quality learning experience in India

8Dec By NitishNo Comments

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Tata Trusts, Khan Academy enter five-year pact to develop free, high quality learning experience in India

Tata Trusts, and Khan Academy, a Silicon Valley-based not-for-profit education initiative founded by educationist Salman Khan, announced that they were entering into a five-year partnership to leverage the power of technology to provide free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere in the country. The partnership will focus on developing tech-enabled, high quality and localised education resources across India by providing a personalised, mastery-based learning experience. A former hedge fund analyst, Khan, who began the initiative as a teaching platform for his cousins back in the mid-2000s, is now has 30 million registered students and has delivered over 580 million lessons and over four million exercise problems. Speaking to the media, Tata Trusts, Chairman Ratan Tata said: ...