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Vedantu

http://www.vedantu.com/
Last activity: 07.04.2023
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Vedantu is a LIVE online interactive platform that enables personalized learning. Vedantu uses technology to bring together teachers and students on a single platform to enable live learning between them. On Vedantu student can select from a huge pool of quality teachers. Vedantu has technology tools which enables teachers to provide LIVE teaching to students in an interactive manner using whiteboard, audio and video technology. The company is very focused on technology and has created in-house product which is very optimized for low bandwidth conditions. It is a venture by three IITian friends - Vamsi Krishna, Pulkit Jain and Anand Prakash. These three friends turned entrepreneurs have an extremely deep domain expertise in education. They did their first venture in education, Lakshya, in 2006 which later got acquired by a listed company called MT Educare (Mahesh Tutorials) in 2012. As part of Lakshya the founders taught and mentored more than 10,000 students and trained more than 200 teachers between them. The name Vedantu is formed by two Sanskrit words Veda (Knowledge) + Tantu (Network), signifying a 'Knowledge Network' where any student can tap into a teacher of his choice directly and the learning can happen, anytime-anywhere. The company’s sole mission is to create a world of learning which is ‘Personalized & Democratized’. Personalized in terms of better experience than group classes and democratized in terms of choice which online platform provides like choice of teacher, choice of time, schedule and most importantly level of study.
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Location: South Africa, Gauteng, Gosforth
Member count: 5001-10000
Phone: +91 80 3951 1577
Total raised: $200M
Founded date: 2011

Investors 4

Funding Rounds 7

DateSeriesAmountInvestorsDeal News
16.07.2020Series D$100M-techcrunch...
09.04.2020Series C$13M-techcircle...
13.02.2020Series C$24MGGV Capita...techcrunch...
29.08.2019Series C$42M-techcrunch...
24.11.2018Series B$11M-entrackr.c...
23.01.2018-$5MAccelthehindubu...
08.05.2015Series A$5MAccelvccircle.c...

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18.05.2022Edtech Vedantu To Layoff Over 400 Employees, Takes Total Cou...Earlier, Inc42 exclusively reported that Vedantu had laid off 200+ employees to cut costs, of which ...inc42.com/...
18.05.2022Vedantu follows Unacademy’s footsteps — fires over 600 peopl...Vedantu, on Wednesday, announced that it has laid off another 424 employees. The development comes o...businessin...
05.05.2022Indian edtech major Vedantu lets 200 teachers go to cut cost...Consumer TechNewsStartups Roehl Niño Bautista · 2d ago · 1 min readIndian edtech major Vedantu lets...techinasia...
05.05.2022Edtech unicorn Vedantu lays off 200 employeesEdtech unicorn Vedantu has laid off 200 employees almost seven months after the Tiger Global-backed ...entrackr.c...
27.11.2021Vedantu announces buyback of ESOPs worth $3 mn for eligible ...Vedantu, a pioneer in Live online learning, has announced ESOPs (employee stock ownership plan) liqu...business-s...
26.11.2021Vedantu announces its first ESOP buyback programme worth $3 ...Online tutoring platform Vedantu has announced its buyback programme for employee stock options wort...vccircle.c...
26.11.2021Vedantu announces ESOP buyback worth $3 millionFounders will not participate in the buyback Edtech unicorn Vedantu has announced its ESOP (employe...thehindubu...
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