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EDTECH VALUATION CORRECTION
Buy, Sell or Hold: Goldman Sachs maintains neutral on Physicswallah; Morgan Stanley remains overweight on TVS MotorBrokerages maintain selective bullishness on consumption and mobility stocks, citing strong operating momentum and market share gains. Morg...
GACM Technologies to acquire 30% stake in AI edtech firm WeXLThe deal will help GACM Technologies diversify into the fast-expanding education and GovTech segment with government orders, long-term cont...
From $22 billion to $1 billion: Byju’s valuation at BlackRock bottomPreviously, BlackRock had valued Byju's at $8.2 billion at the end of the March quarter of 2023. For Byju's, this is not the first valuatio...
Byju’s valuation below $3 billion; company facing challenges: Prosus interim CEOLate last year, Prosus said it had ceased equity accounting of Byju’s as it had lost “significant influence” over the firm after its holdin...
Baron Capital marks up Swiggy, Pine Labs valuation; almost halves Byju’s valueIn its April-June quarterly report, Baron Capital cut the valuation of Byju’s to $11.7 billion as of June 30, down 44.6% from $21.2 billion...
Expect further corrections in startup valuations: Prosus CEO Bob van DijkThe froth of the low-interest rate regime hasn’t fully been washed away and the startup ecosystem is likely to see valuations drop further,...
Byju’s begins another round of layoffs; to impact 500-1,000 employeesThe fresh set of layoffs at Byju's is expected to impact employees across marketing, sales, business development as well as product and tec...
Byju’s to lay off more staff in fresh cost-cutting driveThe cost correction comes right on the heels of the company skipping a quarterly interest payment of about $40 million earlier this week on...
Byju’s lenders scrap talks to recast $1.2B loan; Janus Henderson cuts PharmEasy valuation furtherByju’s woes seem to have no end. The company has suffered a series of setbacks over the last year, including ED raids and valuation markdow...
US fund cuts edtech Eruditus’ valuation by 9% to $2.9 billionThe markdown has translated to a valuation of about $2.9 billion as of March 31, 2023, a drop from $3.2 billion in August 2021, a price at ...
Funding crunch healthy for startups as it’ll bring profitability to the fore: GSV’s Deborah QuazzoDeborah Quazzo told ET during an exclusive interaction that the pace of investments has slowed down in both the US and India and is likely ...
B2C edtech firms must learn to adapt: Lead cofounder Smita DeorahSmita Deorah, cofounder and co-CEO of school edtech unicorn Lead, said the adoption of online edtech solutions grew during Covid-19 as scho...
Next few months will see turmoil globally, but India is poised to grow: ETSA panelistsStartups need to focus on unit economics and hunker down to endure the ongoing turbulence in the tech world, said the group of eminent busi...
What went wrong with Byju’s? Shriram Subramanian has a take“If despite the tailwinds in its heyday, Byju’s was not profitable or did not create a buffer, then how is it going to weather even a simpl...
Vedantu says it is laying off another 424 employeesVedantu had earlier fired 200 of its contractual and full-time employees, amid cratering demand for online education, owing to the opening ...
Blinc Invest marks the final close of its second fund at Rs 100 croreThrough Blinc Fund II, the venture capital fund plans to make five-seven investments of Rs 10-20 crore each.
Startups shed flab amid slowdown in large funding roundsThe trend is likely to play out further, though the early-stage funding ecosystem has yet to significantly taper off. Investors have begun ...
Vedantu eyes $100 million from Coatue at $600 million valuationNew York-based Coatue is a known technology investor, having backed Uber, Meituan Dianping and DoorDash globally, along with bets on Swiggy...
Tencent’s becomes the Alibaba of Indian startup sceneThis comes at a time when India is emerging as the next frontier of growth given that fewer Chinese startups are going public due to the un...
Amadeus Capital sets its sight on India, eyes marketplaces, ed-tech and fintech firmsFor India, Amadeus is not eyeing a fixed number of investments but early growth stage firms where product-market fit is well established, a...