Education

Unitus Ventures, TiE Bangalore and Sylvant Advisors launch StartEdu 5 competition and TiE EdTech Day 2017

Capria Admin August 14, 2017

Intent to shortlist and mentor 10 applicants. Winner to get an opportunity to access INR 3 crore of investment. 14th August 2017, Bangalore: Unitus Ventures, India’s leading impact venture fund investing in early-stage startups innovating for the masses, TiE Bangalore, a non-profit association dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and Sylvant Advisors,…

3 Tips to Attract an EdTech Investor

Capria Admin July 5, 2017

If you’re involved in startups, you know how trends can grip an industry. Excitement builds around specific subsectors or technologies, which in turn leads to the creation of more startups, which in turn leads to more hype. But remember – You’ve not entered a sector, just because it’s #trending In…

EdTech startups are focusing on the wrong thing – they need teachers, not tests

Capria Admin June 26, 2017

Aarthi Kannan’s living room in her Koramangala apartment in south Bengaluru is kind of crowded this afternoon. A home schooler practises her subtraction problems in a corner. Seated across her, a Class 8 student takes a math challenge on Aarthi’s iPad, her smile showing her progress to another level. Next…

Investee Spotlight: LabInApp – A growing science laboratory in the hands of 20,000+ Indian classrooms

Capria Admin June 8, 2017

“I hear, I forget. I see, I remember. I do, I understand” – Confucius Kalaghatagi is a small, rural town in Karnataka’s Dharwad district. *Mahesh, a physics teacher in one of the affordable schools here, often uses videos from varied sources, few working models he created, to demonstrate the concepts…

Cuemath raises $15 million in Series B round from Alphabet

Capria Admin January 23, 2017

Education start-up Cuemath will use the funds for business expansion and product development Education start-up Cuemath, run by Cuelearn Pvt. Ltd, has raised $15 million in Series B round of funding led by equity investment fund of Alphabet Inc., CapitalG (formerly known as Google Capital), the company said in a…

Investee Spotlight: How Cuemath is creating meaningful opportunities for educated homemakers

Capria Admin January 19, 2017

Delhi-based Cuemath is creating a home-based math learning network in India. With 2,000 centres across 9 cities, Cuemath is aiming to expand to 5,000 centres by 2018, as well as expand to Tier II and III cities. A young, feisty Priyanka fought with her family to pursue her MBA. When…

What India’s failing edtech startups can learn from China to succeed

Capria Admin January 17, 2017

Over the past year, there have been numerous articles trying to explain why edtech startups in India are failing. If you believe the rhetoric, the Indian edtech market is in dire straits with little to be optimistic about. Challenges such as long sales cycles, the number of stakeholders, and a lack…

India’s EdTech Sector – Is it really growing? We don’t think so.

Capria Admin January 9, 2017

EdTech 2016 – The Year of Byju’s Over the past fortnight, we’ve been conducting our annual pipeline and portfolio review. A time-consuming process, it involves analyzing the performance of our investees, their plans for the next fiscal year, and perhaps more interestingly for everyone else, we look to identify funding…

Infographic: Introducing Cuemath, the growth curve

Capria Admin June 13, 2016

Cuemath Raises Series A, Grows 4x in Six Months

Capria Admin June 7, 2016

June 6, 2016 (Bangalore): Cuemath is one of the fastest growing networks of math learning centres in India today. With a unique math and logic program designed by alumni of top institutes around the world, it offers a technology platform for women to run home-based learning centres for young students in…

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