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LeadSquared Raises $153 Million in Funding Round to Attain Unicorn Status
LeadSquared, which provides firms with tools to easily onboard vendors, plans to use the money to double down on growth investments in India and North America.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- edtech
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India’s Edtech Unicorn UpGrad Raises $225 Million in Funding, Doubles Valuation
An education technology unicorn built by a cable TV-era entrepreneur almost doubled its valuation after raising $225 million in fresh funding.
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- Education, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- edtech, venture capital
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Indian Edtech PhysicsWallah Becomes Unicorn With $100 Million Series A Funding
An Indian edtech startup that has made deep inroads in smaller Indian cities and towns with its low-cost learning offerings is the latest to join the South Asian nation’s fast-growing unicorn club.
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- Education, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Edtech Unicorn Eruditus Lays off Employees to Focus On Profitability
Ed-tech platform Eruditus Group, which is valued USD 3.2 billion, is laying off a section of its employees, India and globally, as a part of its business restructuring to focus on profitability.
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- Education, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Edtech Start-Up Manara Raises $3 Million in New Financing
Funding round was led by FinTech company Stripe with participation from Careem founder Mudassir Sheikha and other major investors.
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- Global
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Bodhi Tree Picks up Strategic Stake in Coaching Institute Allen for $600 Million in India
Bodhi Tree will leverage its founders’ shared track record of building iconic consumer businesses to build ALLEN into a world-class digital education business of the future.
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- Education, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- edtech, global development
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School Fees Payment Startup Zenda Raises $9.4 Million
Zenda was founded in June 2021 by Raman Thiagarajan and Haseeb Ahmed, alumni of McKinsey & Company. Thiagarajan and Ahmed had previously founded edtech startup Nexsquare in Dubai.
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- Education, Technology
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Financepeer Bags $31 Million in Funding From QED, Aavishkaar Capital
The company had raised $3 million in 2020 from MS Fincap, Danube, Aar Em Ventures, Angelbay Holdings, JITO Angel Network, and HEM Angels.
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- Asia Pacific
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