Leverage Edu is India's most trusted university admission service helping students with their higher education.
Basic Information
New Delhi based Leverage Edu is empowering students across India to choose the best-matched career and higher education options, with one-touch access to personalised mentors and leading global universities. Founded in 2017 by Akshay Chaturvedi, Rajiv Ganjoo and Aman Arora Leverage Edu has been lauded as India’s most trusted university admissions company. The company initially began as a higher education mentorship marketplace in Silicon Valley’s Draper University’s 2015 cohort. Leverage Edu’s technology-powered higher education and career guidance ecosystem includes a full stack service, using AI to help students work with best-matched mentors from around the world in personalized career workshops. Their product suite includes the LeverageEdu information platform that gets over a million unique users every month, Univalley - which helps Universities with a host of student engagement solutions and gives students access to vetted programs, UniConnect - world’s leading online education fair platform that helps 100+ universities and students connect with each other to find best matched higher education options in a virtual setting and LeverageLive - which is democratising access to best teachers in a live classes format for GMAT, GRE, SAT, IELTS & TOEFL exams. The company counts marquee investors like DSG Consumer Partners, Blume Ventures and prominent entrepreneurs & business builders from India & Silicon Valley amongst its backers. It’s work has been widely featured across top media outlets including BBC, WSJ, Forbes, CNBC, Business Insider, Voice Of America, Mint, Business Today, Economic Times, Entrepreneur, Business Standard, Business World, Rajya Sabha TV, India Today etc.
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Legal Name
:
Leverage EdTech Private Limited
Headquarters
:
New Delhi, Delhi, India
No. of Employees
:
61 to 100
Core Team
:
1.
Akshay Chaturvedi
Co-Founder & CEO
2.
Rajiv Ganjoo
Co-Founder & COO
3.
Aman Arora
Co-Founder & Head of Technology
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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
Jan | Raised Funding
Raised first institutional round / VC Capital, from Blume Ventures & DSG Consumer Partners
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Feb | Key Leadership Hire
Brought onboard Digvijay Gagneja as COO in the business
Target Market
B2B
Universities who want to recruit students who will excel in their programs
Client Segment
:
EdTech/Education
Target Companies
:
Large Enterprise
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
Detail Round Breakdown
Series Name
:
VENTURE-ROUND