Edtech startups in Bengaluru

Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, Hemesh Singh

Grew from a YouTube channel into one of India's largest online learning platforms (formally founded 2015). Unicorn 2020, with a vast network of educators for test-prep and beyond.

Vamsi Krishna, Anand Prakash, Pulkit Jain, Saurabh Saxena

Founded 2014; pioneered live online tutoring (LIVE classes) for school students. Became a unicorn in 2021, a defining name of the Indian edtech wave.

Byju Raveendran & Divya Gokulnath

Founded 2011 in Bengaluru; India's flagship K-12 learning app spanning math, science, coding and test-prep, built on Byju Raveendran's earlier CAT-coaching classes. Peaked at a ~$22B valuation as India's mos...

Mohan Lakhamraju, Hari Krishnan Nair & Arjun Nair

Founded 2013 in Bengaluru; a higher-ed/professional upskilling platform offering data-science, AI, cloud and management programs in partnership with universities like UT Austin and Great Lakes. Largely boots...

Manan Khurma

Founded 2013 in Bengaluru (parent Cuelearn); an after-school math and coding program for K-12 delivered through a global network of home/online tutors and a proprietary problem-solving curriculum. Backed by ...

Aditi Avasthi

Founded 2012 in Bengaluru; an AI-driven personalized-learning and test-prep platform for K-12, higher-ed and competitive exams, with strong vernacular-language support. Reliance Industries acquired a majorit...

Prateek Shukla, Yogesh Bhat & Nrupul Dev

Founded 2019 in Bengaluru; an outcome-driven coding/tech career school using an income-share / pay-after-placement model to train software developers, data analysts and other in-demand roles. Backed by Omidy...

Nishant Chandra & Siddharth Maheshwari

Founded 2019 in Bengaluru; a coding/tech upskilling platform (pay-after-placement) that has expanded into Newton School of Technology, a full degree-granting CS & AI program with university partners. Backed ...

Vivek Goyal & Dinesh Advani

Founded 2016 in Bengaluru; makes augmented-reality STEAM toys and learning kits (e.g. Orboot globe, Tacto, Plugo) for children aged 2–12, sold globally including the US and Europe. Blends physical play with ...

Krishna Kumar

Founded 2009 in Bengaluru as a project-management blog, now a global professional-certification platform for cloud, DevOps, data science, cybersecurity and digital marketing. Acquired by US-based Blackstone ...

Mihir Gupta, Payoj Jain, Divyansh Bordia & Anshuman Kumar

Founded 2020 in Bengaluru; an edtech-SaaS / teaching-infrastructure platform giving teachers and institutions tools for online classes, content, assessments and an Integrated School Platform. Backed by Learn...

Rajesh Kumar (CEO), Venkataraghulan V & Deepak Venugopal

Founded 2021 in Bengaluru; offers a 4-year work-integrated B.Tech CSE degree (in partnership with AICTE/UGC-recognised universities) that blends a software-product-engineering curriculum with paid apprentice...

Mridula Shridhar & V.K. Manikandan

Founded 2012 in Bengaluru by IIM-Calcutta alumni; an early-childhood-education / preschool-enablement company that equips budget private schools and preschools with a structured '6T' play-based curriculum, m...

Anuradha Agarwal

Founded 2016 in Bengaluru; a vernacular language-learning app teaching English and ~12 Indian languages (Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, etc.) using mother-tongue-based second-language acquisition, targeting ...

Aseem Gupta & Vimal Singh Rathore

Founded 2023 in Bengaluru; an AI-powered personalized-learning and exam-prep platform (notably UPSC/civil-services mentoring) using an AI mentor to deliver guidance at scale. One of the new wave of AI-native...