Edtech firm Klassroom Edutech raised an additional $175K from investors led by ah! Ventures taking its total tally of funds raised in the past 6 months to $600K. ah! Ventures’ has done total 106 investments (in 81 Startups) till date taking its total investment portfolio to INR 256 CR (~34 MN USD) with 13 exits and 23 follow on rounds. 3 investments have happened through all three platforms in 2022 till date.
This round saw participation of several angel networks like StartupLanes, Startup Angels Network, Meteor Ventures and Hem Angels along with marquee angel investors such as Pavan Bakeri (Managing Director, Bakeri Group), Kishore Ganji (Founder, Astir Ventures), Amit Kothari (Country Head, ICICI Bank), Abhijit Saxena (ex-CEO Netcore), CPT Family Trust, Chandru Chawla (Executive VP, Cipla) among others. Since its last fund raise, Klassroom Edutech’s has registered 6X revenue growth and doubled its valuation in under 6 months.
Klassroom Edutech, Leading offline to online hybrid tutoring platform.
The Mumbai based startup differentiates itself from other Edtech players by focusing on solving fundamental problems of the education ecosystem such as affordability, accessibility, accountability and flexibility. With ‘Klassroom for Bharat’ mission for the mass market, Klassroom Edutech, through its website and app, offers live lectures that stream directly from the in-house ‘K-Studio’. Leveraging its hybrid model and on- the-ground partner network of over 160 local coaching centers, it provides attractive price-points thereby making high-quality learning accessible to the middle and low- income groups.
It conducts classes for standards 6 to 12, IIT-JEE, NEET, CA, CS and for other leading competitive exams and plans to add new courses every month. For the urban markets, Klassroom’s hybrid business model provides flexibility to students wherein those enrolled for physical tutoring can access online/live tutoring and vice versa. Klassroom is collaborating with schools and several state governments on various projects across India to onboard 5 million students on the Klassroom platform.
Abhijeet Kumar, Co-Founding Partner, ah! Ventures says, “Klassroom’s growth last year underlines its students-first approach and deep focus on learning outcomes. We are excited to make a follow-on investment in Klassroom, to support its mission of transforming the education sector in India.”
“At Astir Ventures, we invest in early-stage startups, and as such, we look for two main factors in startups: the founders and the MOAT. Despite the latter being a very crucial element for success, it is often the tenacity, grit and capability of the founders that ensure the ship sails towards the destination; irrespective of the tide and sea. Beyond Klassroom’s unique idea and vision of providing quality coaching access to everyone, it was Alka, Dhruv, and Dhumil’s mettle and expertise that won us over.”, said Kishore Ganji Founder at Astir Ventures.
Pavan Bakeri, Managing Director at Bakeri says, “Klassroom fills a huge gap in India’s educational system. It helps students get deep insights into the subject matter, and thereby offers personalised learning which complements school education”
Gearing for Pre-Series A3
Founded in 2016, Klassroom is now looking to raise $1 million over the next 3 months and is expecting to double its current valuation within this time frame on the back of tremendous revenue growth.
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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 1 CR, 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, 4000+ 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 256 CR (~34 MN USD) in 81 startups & 106 investments and have announced 13 exits & 23 follow on rounds.
Contact: Abhijeet Kumar, abhijeet@ahventures.in
