Edtech startup BrightChamps comes out of stealth mode with $63 million funding – TechCrunch

BrightChamps, an Indian edtech startup that’s trying to bridge the educational hole left by K12 faculties, mentioned on Monday it has raised $51 million in a brand new financing spherical and $63 million thus far since launching a yr in the past because the Goa-headquartered agency seems to be to develop its footprints in over 10 nations.

The startup, which was valued at almost $500 million within the new financing spherical led by Premji Make investments, presently teaches children programming and different abilities in over 10 markets together with Southeast Asia, the U.S., and Canada, BrightChamps co-founder and chief govt Ravi Bhushan instructed TechCrunch in an interview.

Bhushan, who was homeschooled and beforehand served because the chief know-how officer at property portal PropTiger, mentioned faculties the world over are failing to show children a number of necessary abilities that they should excel in trendy instances. “It’s not an India downside. Colleges throughout the globe are instructing children find out how to change the type of textual content in Microsoft Phrase within the identify of know-how,” he mentioned.

The startup, which has amassed over 100 thousand registered college students and has achieved profitability, is “constructing a ‘weapon of mass instruction’ and is main the disruptive wave which can make India one of many largest exporters of transformative digital schooling,” mentioned Deborah Quazo, Managing accomplice at GSV Ventures, in a press release. GSV led the startup’s earlier spherical, which TechCrunch had reported.

A slide from an earlier investor deck of BrightChamps obtained by TechCrunch.

Bhushan mentioned the startup’s progress has been utterly natural to date and it has not used any cash raised from the traders. “We’re rising solely with the cash we have now earned from our clients,” he mentioned.

BrightChamps has been some of the talked startups in India up to now one yr and has already been approached by one of many largest edtech giants within the nation with a buyout provide, TechCrunch has discovered.

The startup, which spoke for the primary time final week after TechCrunch approached it to verify the funding spherical, mentioned it supposed to discuss its choices and earlier financing spherical final yr, however determined towards it as a result of it didn’t need to have a good time a milestone at a time when its residence nation was attempting to battle the pandemic.

Bhushan declined to touch upon any acquisition provide BrightChamps has acquired, however mentioned he’s constructing the startup with a really long-term imaginative and prescient and isn’t trying to make short-term earnings. “Schooling, as you possibly can inform, has been my ardour for the reason that childhood,” he added.

“In lower than a yr after inception Brightchamps has established itself as one of many quickest rising Ed tech firms within the markets that it serves . Leveraging Human Assets globally to ship personalised experiences, together with an distinctive capability to hyper differentiate studying pathways, Brightchamps is on the trail to proving that the ability of information and studying might be mixed for differentiated outcomes,” mentioned T Kurien, Managing Accomplice of Premji Make investments, in a press release.

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