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Leverage Edu is India's most trusted university admission service helping students with their higher education.
Basic Information
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.
Legal Name
:
Leverage EdTech Private Limited
Headquarters
:
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Business Model
:
B2C,  B2B  
Founding Date
:
2017
No. of Employees
:
61 to 100
Core Team
:
1.  
Akshay Chaturvedi
Co-Founder & CEO
2.  
Aman Arora
Co-Founder & Head of Technology
Timeline

2017

Company Incorporation

Jan | Company Incorporation

Launched the first version of the website while Akshay was still in Bangalore, at another day-job

Started Generating Revenue

Apr | Started Generating Revenue

Counselled the first student to come and take our Mentorship service for Universities

Raised Funding

Jul | Raised Funding

Raised seed round of ₹ 2 Crores, first external capital in the business

2018

Raised Funding

Jan | Raised Funding

Raised first institutional round / VC Capital, from Blume Ventures & DSG Consumer Partners

2020

Key Leadership Hire

Feb | Key Leadership Hire

Brought onboard Digvijay Gagneja as COO in the business

Revenue Stream
Target Market
B2B
Universities who want to recruit students who will excel in their programs
Client Segment
:
EdTech/Education  
Target Companies
:
Large Enterprise  
Target Geography
:
Global  
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
:
Funding

Total Funding

$70.0M

Investors
:
1.  
Anand Sankeshwar
2.  
Vishal Gondal
3.  
Kashyap Deorah
4.  
Karan Khemka

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Detail Round Breakdown
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5

$6.5M

Series Name
:
SERIES-A
Date
:
18th Feb 2021