Unacademy, an Indian learning platform, raised $21M in Series C funding.
Backers included Sequoia India, SAIF Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners and existing investors including Blume Ventures.
The company, which has raised $38.6m in total so far, intends to use the funds to onboard new educators, accelerate growth in various categories and enhance product and technology.
Co-founded by Roman Saini, Gaurav Munjal, and Hemesh Singh, Unacademy provides a platform which makes educational videos available for free for everyone.
It features a large online knowledge repository for multi-lingual education.
In October 2017, the company also launched ‘Plus’ courses on its platform with a private discussion forum, live video classes, and a personalized classroom learning environment with its top educators. Currently, more than 30 educators take paid ‘Plus’ courses on the platform apart from the lessons that are also available for free.
FinSMEs
17/07/2018