EdTech Startup Little Leap has raised its Seed Round of funding of INR 2.67 CR (~USD 360K) led by ah! Ventures with participation of First Cheque VC, LetsVenture and Good Capital VC. This is ah! Ventures’ 79th investment (in 62 Startups) taking its total investment portfolio to INR 214 CR (~30 MN USD) with 11 exits till date (and 2 more exits are in process). This is ah! Ventures’s 16th investment in 2021 and we plan to do 50+ investments in 2021 totalling to INR 150+ CR (~20MN USD).
Little Leap is a live online holistic development platform with a vision to democratize top-tier International, IB standard education for every child helping them build strong learning foundations and helping them develop essential soft skills, life skills, leadership skills and creativity.
Children love Little Leap as they learn through an outcome-driven curriculum with bite-sized content offered in gamified and truly interactive group sessions designed by an in-house team of expert child psychologists and counselors.
Parents trust Little Leap as they see tangible visible progress in their children within 2-3 months of engagement, which is further enhanced and empowered through technology with a detailed understanding of the child’s specific needs and offering customized learning on our mobile app as well as in our live sessions.
In just 12 months since launch, Little Leap has developed and field-tested its research-backed curriculum with a large segment of parents and children through its personalized and affordable programs and has been running at a close to 100% parent satisfaction rate and unprecedented industry-leading repeat rates.
“With Little Leap, we aim to empower students to become well-rounded individuals with high levels of emotional intelligence, strong communication skills, social warmth, grit, curiosity, and creative thinking irrespective of family or schooling background. We hope that as students become confident and comfortable in their skin, they can become smart leaders and change-makers of the future. The laughter and smile children give us in our sessions is something we hold very close to our heart and nothing matches the satisfaction of seeing children learn what real education looks like”, said Vishal Gupta, Founder, Little Leap.
“We believe non-academic skills are equally important for shaping children’s personality, which shall help them evolve into successful individuals and better human beings. A platform such as Little Leap evangelizes this and we are confident with their new-age approach coupled with the founders’ passion will go a long way in adding value to this ever-growing segment.”, stated Anubha Prasad, Venture Partner, ah! Ventures.
“To Little Leap, Vishal brings a rare combination – a personal conviction that he is doing what desperately needs to be done, along with a highly analytical, systems-driven growth process”, said Mohit Satyanand, Lead Investor, LetsVenture.
“Little Leap is solving a key challenge for students to help them improve skills across reading, writing, listening and speaking. We were thrilled to see the amazing feedback and the high level of involvement of both students and parents in their program. Their pedagogy and outcome-driven model will make them a clear winner in this space”, said Kushal Bhagia, CEO, First Cheque.
“Little leap addresses an urgent need for parents across India – finding a way to help their children get comfortable with communicating effectively and developing critical 21st-century skills. In a short time, Little Leap has built a product that parents and students love and has made it accessible and affordable to middle/upper-middle-class families. They have a 75-80% renewal rate and have grown 5x quarter on quarter. We are excited to partner on what I am sure will be an incredible and impactful journey.”, said Akshay Saxena, Co-Founder, Avanti Fellows and Lead Investor, Good Capital Syndicate.
Little Leap aims to use these funds to help more children build foundational skills at an early age which ripples strongly in their future development. They will also be expanding their team, hiring and training more child experts, enhancing their product and technology to build a portfolio of innovative features to be launched subsequently. They intend to raise another funding round in 6-9 months.
Contact: Vishal Gupta, vishal@littleleap.co.in
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About ah! Ventures
ah! Ventures is one of the world’s largest fundraising platform for early stage startups raising up to 10 MN USD. ah! Ventures has three platforms: First Gear, which helps startups raise upto INR 1 CR (~USD 150K), Angel Platform, which helps startups raise upto 1 MN USD and High Tables Platform, which helps startups raise 1-10 MN USD. Today ah! First Gear, Angel and High Tables platforms have over 70000+ entreprenurs, 2000+ seed/angel investors and over 1000 VCs & institutional investors registered with it. ah! First Gear, Angel and High Tables platforms till date have invested INR 214 CR (~30 MN USD) in 62 startups and 79 investments and have announced 11 exits (and 3 more exits are in process).
Contact: Abhijeet Kumar, abhijeet@ahventures.in
