The year 2021 remained dedicated to the rise of Educational Technology (EdTech)
In this year, India's homegrown Byju's becomes the world's most valuable EdTech company, at valuation of $18 billion. In this year, the when the world tried striving out of the Covid lockdown effects, people went more digital and edtech saw a major boom in this period. The sudden growth caught investors’ eyes too, and they loosened their pockets to cut a slice of the pie. As the acceptance grew in the urban India, some entrepreneurs saw the need and potential that tier-II cities' markets contained for the longest.
While others switched from e-Learning to education support and re-engineered the models like education counselling and dedicated exam training to focus on the much ignored facets of the crippled education system. The overall holistic growth in the field of education in India has been benefitting all of the stakeholders in the field, and some of the players are indeed on the watchlist for the year 2022.
While some of the top edtech startups have already created awareness and set the trend, the new & upcoming players have also started catching the attention. With the rising digital awareness and penetration of the technology, gradually edtech has become quintessential to the daily requirements of the students and aspirants. Be it e-learning or education counselling, edtech is replacing the traditional set ups.
While some of the top edtech startups have already created awareness and set the trend, the new & upcoming players have also started catching the attention. With the rising digital awareness and penetration of the technology, gradually edtech has become quintessential to the daily requirements of the students and aspirants. Be it e-learning or education counselling, edtech is replacing the traditional set ups.
Here're 10 of the most promising EdTech startups in year 2021,
AdmitKard
AdmitKard aims to mentor students in the college application process. The platform is equipped with all that is required to end this stress about universities and the courses. The platform suggests the best possible universities through data backed algorithms, and apply to these universities from the same platform in a few clicks.
The AdmitKard platform also recommends relevant current international students, called Mentors, who can provide real -experience sharing of their journey to studying abroad. Students get end-to-end guidance from availing the best education loans, academic and language test preparations, profile building, accommodation services and financial services.
BrainGymJr
BrainGymJr is a first-of-its kind child development initiative that enables application and problem solving for children. The platform offers a subscription of daily exercises based on Mathematics, English, and real-world skills with customized levels of difficulty.
Conceptualized by Vidur Garg, BrainGymJr aides customized facilitation to build a strong foundation of logic, reasoning and critical thinking for children.
BrightChamps
BrightChamps is a live learning platform that complement the school curriculum by offering next-generation life skills such as programming, artificial intelligence (AI), design thinking and financial literacy for kids in the 6-15 age group.
The Edtech startup recently raised $51 million in funding at a valuation of nearly half a billion ($500 million).
ClassPlus
Classplus is an Ed-Tech start-up company transforming the world of education by powering educationalists with the digital tools and resources that help them become future-ready. Their industry-first unified platform lets coaching institutes have their own app to manage all their tasks and reach lakhs of students across the country with our next-level technology.So far, over 1 Lakh coaching institutes across 1,100+ Indian cities have successfully set up their online business through apps built by Classplus.
Digikull
Digikull, an Ed-tech startup that provides certified technical courses, with pay after placement only services. Offering an array of development courses starting from 17 to 32 weeks. The brand has been achieving almost 100 percent placement for its highly skilled batches.
Digikull allows students to start the course by paying a small registration fee and pay the rest of the fee only when they start earning in the form of 'Guru-Dakshina'. Notably, the name 'Digikull' is a combination of two words Digi taken from Digital and Kull taken from Gurukul.
The startup is weaved to address the requirements of both- the candidates and the corporate. The idea is to offer flexible pay after placement opportunities to the candidates and the skilled workforce to corporate.
GENLEAP
GENLEAP, an Ed-tech & HR Tech startup is the brainchild of industry veterans Sachin Sandhir, Nimish Gupta, Nitin Thakur & Shweta Kataria. The platform provides a unique DNA based self-discovery, upskilling and employability complete career lifecycle management.
The edtech startup counts leading educational institutions like the Amity Schools and universities, G.D. Goenka Schools, IIS University, and many more who are looking to implement GENLEAP’s pathbreaking self-discovery offering.
Pariksha
Pariksha is solving the massive problem of accessibility and affordability of outcome-based education for the mobile 1st internet users of Bharat. Pariksha is trying to solve the problems of students who live in tier-2 and tier-3 towns of India and are preparing for government jobs, as they have no proper access to computers, preparation materials and mentorship. It covers content for government exams in various fields including- teaching, banking, defence, railways etc.
Toppr
Toppr have thoughtfully designed the platform to ensure that it is a one-stop after-school learning platform. It has more than 1.5 million learning pieces, including adaptive practice questions, solutions, concepts, and videos that come together seamlessly to give 360° learning. The platform uses artificial intelligence based machine learning algorithms on top of this strong infrastructure, to create personalised learning paths for millions of students. It enables students to prepare for competitive examinations across the streams including engineering, medical, commerce and other scholarship tests too.
Vedantu
Vedantu is the leader in K-12 LIVE tutoring space. Each month, over 35 million users’ access Vedantu through its app and web for free. The platforms has continued to be a pioneer in the space with several first time innovations that include WAVE, its proprietary LIVE teaching platform, and the 2-teacher model.Vedantu offers tutoring courses to young students from 3 years old to 18 years old, as well as preparation for competitive exams such as IIT-JEE, NEET, Commerce, CBSE, ICSE, and state exams such as Maharashtra boards. Through its newest offering and fastest growing vertical, SuperKids, it offers extracurricular classes like English Speaking, Reading, and Coding.
In July this year, Vedantu acquired majority stake in Pedagogy, an AI-enabled personalized learning platform that provides online courses and interactive digital books for students preparing for competitive examinations. Pedagogy works on a subscription-based model to provide trusted content to its students, from India’s best publishers and content creators.
Vidyakul
Vidyakul is a vernacular e-learning platform that helps state board students to learn academics via pre-recorded and live lectures.
Vidyakul’s mission is to bridge the gap between students and teachers all over India by creating an online platform that enables students to meet renowned teachers for quality, integrated, interactive learning. Vidyakul works to provide students, parents, and teachers with a perfect online platform to solve all their problems related to learning and teaching online.
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