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What went wrong with Byju's? - Deep Dive
Despite the present predicament at Byju's, one thing remains constant, i.e. Byju Raveendran (Co-founder and Group CEO) continues to teach...

Ritwik Khator
Jan 26, 20249 min read


Where's Thy Growth Byju's?
News Flash India’s most valuable Startup, Byju’s financial results of FY21 were released after more than a year’s deadlock with the...

Ritwik Khator
Oct 5, 20222 min read


Edtech is Shrinking
Digital learning by compulsion or choice? With covid induced lockdowns, schools, colleges and tuition centers shut indefinitely, Edtech...

Kartikeyan Khator
Oct 4, 20222 min read


Podcast - Can Edtech solve India's Education Problems?
India's education system is fraught with problems that can be solved with technology. But are Indian edtech companies actually solving them?

Kartikeyan Khator
Jun 20, 20221 min read


Online to offline is the new channel of success for Startups?
Did you know that Lenskart operates over 900 physical stores across India? Did you know that Ola owned and leased out 33,000 vehicles to...

Ritwik Khator
May 17, 20227 min read


Could Unacademy avoid Mass Layoff?
Since March’22, Unacademy has laid off over 900 employees and educators. To put it more dramatically, the edtech unicorn that grew its...

Kartikeyan Khator
Apr 16, 20222 min read


Is Edtech really solving India's Education Problems?
At the heart of any good Startup idea is the problem that it plans to solve. Every great company creates value in the long run by solving...

Kartikeyan Khator
Jan 8, 20225 min read


Rundown for the Month - Oct'21
Everyone wants in on Edtech: Larsen & Toubro, the engineering & construction major, launched its own app-based learning platform. Didn’t...

Kartikeyan Khator
Nov 5, 20212 min read


Rundown for the Month - Aug'21
India lends the P2P way: This month, we saw two unicorn startups - CRED and BharatPe entering the Peer-to-Peer lending space. This...

Ritwik Khator
Sep 1, 20212 min read


Is Byju's Building an Edtech monopoly?
As Mark Zuckerberg built and scaled Facebook, he had a bigger vision – Facebook shall one day sit at the helm of everything that’s social...

Kartikeyan Khator
Aug 31, 20217 min read


Rundown for the Month - July'21
Here are the top stories that made the news in July'21 in India's Startup Ecosystem: Byju’s travels to the US, again – The Indian edtech...

Kartikeyan Khator
Aug 1, 20212 min read


Rundown for the Month - June'21
Here are the top stories that made the news in June'21 in India's Startup Ecosystem: More Unicorns - BrowserStack becomes the seventh...

Ritwik Khator
Jun 30, 20212 min read


What numbers are considered sane in the Startup World?
Ratio analysis is important. That’s what our school accounts teacher told us and that’s what the financial expert at cnbc tells us. It’s...

Ritwik Khator
May 30, 20214 min read


New Ideas in Edtech
1. Name of the Company: Augli Founded in: 2018 Founders: Anjali Tiwary, Kamal Kashyap What makes it special: It helps children in honing...

Ritwik Khator
Aug 31, 20201 min read


NEP 2020 - New Opportunities for Edtech
The National Education Policy 2020 made a big noise among the Gen Y and Z. For years we have boasted of having one of the youngest...

Ritwik Khator
Aug 31, 20203 min read


Why M&A in Edtech Makes Perfect Sense
Let us reflect on the M&A opportunities in the Edtech sector. WhiteHat Jr.’s acquisition comes amidst an economic slow down when experts...

Ritwik Khator
Aug 31, 20201 min read


White Hat Graduation
Last month we discussed how WhiteHat Jr. is disrupting the Edtech space by teaching coding to kids aged 6-14 years. This month its...

Ritwik Khator
Aug 31, 20202 min read


The Golden Era of Edtech has Just Begun
A startup comes into existence for 2 main reasons: It’s either tech capabilities that can help accomplish a task with much added...

Ritwik Khator
Aug 31, 20203 min read


In Conversation with Shreyasi Singh, CEO of Harappa Education
Ever since the Government of India has released the New Education Policy (NEP, 2020), we have been wondering how it feels like to be at...

Kartikeyan Khator
Aug 31, 20202 min read


Byju’s gets Rishta for White Hat Jr.
Remember those childhood days when we would be busy typing java scripts while our parents spoon fed us? Ofcourse you don't because they...

Ritwik Khator
Jul 31, 20201 min read
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