Online learning startup Vlurn raises seed funding from Accord Group, MD & CEO, Vidyadhar Sarfare

BANGALORE: Vlurn.com, a platform for online courses has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Vidyadhar Sarfare, MD & CEO of Accord Group. In a statement issued by Vlurn, the funds raised will be used to hire talent, boost technical team, develop its mobile app, create studio infrastructure and marketing and promotion of the courses.

“Vlurn wants to become a go-to place, for anyone who wants to learn from the best trainers in India. It is an integrated platform where learners search and choose courses based on their requirements and then undertake them in a collaborative manner with fellow learners,” said Mithil Pawar, co-founder of the learning portal.

Vidyadhar Sarafare, MD & CEO, Accord Group, which has background in IT and healthcare business in Pune added, “We feel that there are a lot of competitive niches in the overall learning market and we backed Vlurn to focus on offering video based training.”

India, which is the 2nd largest market for online learning after the US, will face a potential shortage of 250 million skilled workers by 2022 and its online education market size is predicted to grow to $40 billion by 2017 from the present $20 billion, said the release.