India’s fast-growing ed-tech platform Kohbee, which helps online educators manage their business end-to-end, has raised USD 235K in Seed round from ah! Ventures Angel Platform and Others including Ankit Mehrotra (CEO, Dineout), Saurabh Aggarwal (Founder, Fitso), Fortunexus & other marquee angel investors. With 40 investments in 2021 and total 103 investments (in 82 Startups) till date, ah! Ventures total portfolio is of INR 251 CR (~33.5 MN USD) with 11 exits and 21 follow on rounds. ah! Ventures plans to do 45+ investments in 2021 totalling to INR 150+ CR (~20MN USD).
Founded by IIT(BHU) alumni, Rohan Sinha and Shashwat Aditya, Kohbee makes it easy for online educators to manage and grow their classes. Kohbee is on a mission to give online educators access to the same tools that a big Edtech does. Kohbee is available on Playstore and webapp with an iOS launch expected soon.
Rohan and Shashwat founded Kohbee app after they faced problems running their own online classes and started building an app that would make it easy for anyone to start their online classes. Since the launch, Kohbee has seen 50,000 downloads in three months. From teaching trading to teaching how to fly a plane, Kohbee has seen all kinds of courses being sold on the 5000+ websites built with the help of Kohbee’s app.
Both Rohan and Shashwat are equally excited about the investment and hoped that it would help Kohbee build tools and scale fast.
“A big thanks to our investors for believing in us. Kohbee is our mission to bring the power back to the educators. I think we are now walking into a new era when many of these educators are starting their own youtube channels and classes and it’s very exciting to see the creator economy take off. We are the tech partner to many such people, and it’s a privilege to be serving them”, said Rohan , Co-Founder , Kohbee.
Shashwat said the funding will help Kohbee tackle the biggest issues faced by online educators. “With this round of funding, Kohbee aims to build a strong core team and attack the biggest problems that educators face today. Indian educators are doing well. All they lack is technical expertise to accelerate their growth just like any other edtech startup. In the next few months, we will build a product that educators and creators will love”, stated Shashwat, Co-Founder , Kohbee.
“I found Kohbee a mission-driven company with founders Rohan and Shashwat passionate about solving the problem of teachers by making them self-sufficient entrepreneurs and giving wings to the new Bharat.”, added Saurabh Aggarwal, Founder Fitso.
“Ed-tech as a sector has been booming for a few years now, but the real need for good quality, reliable education online is yet to be met. Given the current scenario, a mix of online and offline education is likely going to be a new reality for the foreseeable future. Kohbee is solving a problem faced by teachers who are not able to scale their online tutoring. By providing a no-code platform for these teachers. Kohbee is helping teachers run their classes with ease while giving them the ability to promote themselves via digital marketing, keeping track of the students, ease of collecting payments, maintaining the schedule among other benefits. We believe teachers in India require the boost to their teaching skills that Kohbee is very efficiently managing through their services.”, added Pratiti Chakraborty, Venture Partner – ah! Ventures & Deal Lead – Kohbee.
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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 251 CR (~33.5 MN USD) in 82 startups & 103 investments and have announced 11 exits & 21 follow on rounds till date.
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