Allen Institute held talks to acquire Unacademy valuing edtech firm at $800 million in a cut-price deal: sourcesThe Bengaluru-based Unacademy, valued at $3.4 billion in 2021, will likely be merged with Allen; founders expected to exit. The edtech comp...
05 Dec, 2024, 01.31 PM IST
How Unacademy board tweaked targets for founders’ voting rightsEdtech unicorn Unacademy has changed the target for its cofounders Gaurav Munjal and Hemesh Singh to access additional voting rights throug...
31 May, 2024, 11.12 AM IST
Unacademy's Graphy slashes about 30% jobs amid restructuring: reportAccording to an Inc42 report, citing sources, Graphy, which provides learning management system services to edtech creators, has been strug...
26 Oct, 2023, 07.54 PM IST
Unacademy cash burn down to Rs 1.9 crore, revenue at Rs 130 crore in May: Gaurav MunjalThese claims come after Munjal said in November last year that the company had brought down its monthly burn down to $7 million (roughly Rs...
28 Jun, 2023, 07.50 PM IST
Unacademy leadership to take salary cuts of up to 25%, says edtech’s founder Gaurav MunjalIn a memo to employees, cofounder and CEO Gaurav Munjal told employees that the Bengaluru-based unicorn’s leadership including founders wil...
31 Mar, 2023, 02.03 PM IST
NCLAT upholds CCI’s Rs 1,338-crore fine on Google; GoMechanic gone in slump saleThe NCLAT bench has directed Google to carry out the competition regulator’s directions and deposit the fine within 30 days. The penalty of...
29 Mar, 2023, 08.20 PM IST
Unacademy cancels cash appraisals; staffers will be rewarded with stock optionsUnacademy’s cofounder and CEO Gaurav Munjal on Thursday told employees that appraisals for the financial year ended March 2023 stand cancel...
02 Feb, 2023, 09.33 PM IST
Relevel to pivot to test products and NextLevel, Gaurav Munjal tells employeesLaunched on Tuesday, NextLevel competes with professional networking platform Linkedin and aims to help individuals be a part of a rating s...
10 Jan, 2023, 07.16 PM IST
Unacademy’s Gaurav Munjal says rival Classplus ‘definitely overvalued’Classplus competes directly with Unacademy’s Graphy, a software platform for course creators.
29 Nov, 2022, 05.40 PM IST
Unacademy cuts another 350 jobs in second round of layoffsUnacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal said employees being laid off will receive severance pay equivalent of their notice period and an additional tw...
07 Nov, 2022, 10.53 PM IST
Unacademy founders, management to take pay cuts; shut global test prep businessUnacademy chief executive Gaurav Munjal said in a note to his team that they must ‘embrace frugality as core value as the company eyes IPO ...
13 Jul, 2022, 09.21 AM IST
Over 22,000 techies lose jobs in US, more than 12,000 in Indian startupsStartups now say it is much more difficult to raise new funding in this gloomy environment.
03 Jul, 2022, 11.21 AM IST
Over 50K startup employees stare at job loss as India prepares for 200 unicornsNearly 12,000 startup employees have been shown the door to date, let by companies like Ola, Blinkit, BYJU's (White Hat Jr, Toppr), Unacade...
30 Jun, 2022, 09.37 PM IST
Unacademy CEO says funding ‘winter is here’; tells employees to adapt, target profitabilityUnacademy had recently laid off over 600 employees as demand for online education slowed down due to opening up of offline institutes.
26 May, 2022, 03.21 PM IST
Startups reach out to find jobs for the laid-offScaler, Filo, Classplus, PhysicsWallah, BrightChamps, Teachmint, ByteLearn and Mojocare were some of those companies offering help.
20 May, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Cars24 fires 600 employees across departmentsCars24, backed by Japan’s SoftBank and Alpha Wave Global, has joined a growing list of startups such as Unacademy, Vedantu, and Meesho that...
19 May, 2022, 08.23 PM IST
What’s next for Unacademy as it slashes 1,000 jobs in a massive cost-cutting exerciseAccording to people aware of the matter, out of the 1,000 employees who have been fired in the past few weeks, about 300 were educators on ...
07 Apr, 2022, 10.07 PM IST