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Unacademy

Unacademy is an e-learning platform that aims to build an online knowledge repository for multilingual education.

Unacademy is an e-learning platform that aims to build an online knowledge repository for multilingual education. The Bengaluru based edtech platform founded by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini and Hemesh Singh connects expert educators with students across cities looking for quality education. The startup claims it has more than 13 million learners on its platform, over 50,000 subscribers for its Unacademy Plus Subscription, and 400 teachers across 20 exam categories, including competitive ones such as UPSC, IIT-JEE, and CAT.

Services

EdTech/Education

WEBSITE

https://unacademy.com/

HEADQUARTERS

Bangalore, Karnataka, , India

COMPANY SIZE

1000+

FOUNDED

2015

Stories

Stories about Unacademy

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Unacademy CEO advocates for profit-led growth, not blitzscaling, for edtech sector

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Awards

Awards and Recognitions

Top 50 Newsmakers of India - 2019

A YourStory list of startups that made the news this year for all the right reasons.

In 2019, the learning platform made headlines when its Co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal said over Twitter that the company will be buying back shares from the employees whose stocks are vested. Gaurav said that team members can sell up to 30 percent of their vested stocks. In June, the Bengaluru-based edtech startup raised $50 million in Series D funding round from Steadview Capital, Sequoia India, Nexus Venture Partners, and Blume Ventures. This funding round also saw the participation of Aakrit Vaish (Co-Founder and CEO, Haptik) and Sujeet Kumar (Co-Founder and CEO, Udaan). Besides, Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini also invested in this round. Media reports suggest that Unacademy is now valued at over $200 million – a 2X jump in valuation since its Series C round. The startup said it will use the investment to onboard more educators, fuel growth across multiple exam categories, and build product and team. Earlier in April, Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamoorthy was reported to have topped his investment in the startup.