
Leverage Edu is India's most trusted university admission service helping students with their higher education.
Founded in April 2017 by Akshay Chaturvedi, LeverageEdu is a Global Study Abroad Platform that helps students from India, Nigeria & Nepal land higher education opportunities abroad. It operates multiple products for students and universities. The company is backed by institutions ETS, Shorelight, Blume Ventures, Kaizenvest PE, DSP Mutual Fund, Tomorrow Capital, DSG Consumer Partners, Trifecta Capital; family offices Mankind Pharma, Capri Global, Indorama Ventures, Vicco, Singularity Ventures; & individual operators like Binny Bansal, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Kunal Shah, Ashish Hemrajani, Peyush Bansal, Ankur Warikoo, Karan Khemka, Ash Lilani, Vishal Gondal & Amrish Rau amongst others. LeverageEdu enrolls over 6000 students every month, and offers dedicated counseling, application support, college admissions, education loans, international money transfer and student accommodation.
2017
Jan | Company Incorporation
Launched the first version of the website while Akshay was still in Bangalore, at another day-job
Apr | Started Generating Revenue
Counselled the first student to come and take our Mentorship service for Universities
Jul | Raised Funding
Raised seed round of ₹ 2 Crores, first external capital in the business
2018
Jan | Raised Funding
Raised first institutional round / VC Capital, from Blume Ventures & DSG Consumer Partners
2020
Feb | Key Leadership Hire
Brought onboard Digvijay Gagneja as COO in the business
B2B
Universities who want to recruit students who will excel in their programs
B2C
Students who want to pursue higher education
User Age
:
18 to 25,
26 to 34
User Income
:
Lower-middle Income,
Upper-middle Income,
High Income
Location
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