Peak XV alum’s fund; Snabbit, Scapia funding; Upgrad-Unacademy dealHappy Monday! Former Peak XV Partners executives have launched a new early-stage venture fund. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Disp...
16 Mar, 2026, 08.20 AM IST
Ronnie Screwvala’s Upgrad to acquire Unacademy in all-stock dealHigher learning firm Upgrad will acquire Unacademy in an all-stock deal, according to the SoftBank-backed test prep company's founder Gaura...
15 Mar, 2026, 09.59 PM IST
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
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
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
Unacademy’s Graphy acquires edtech startup Spayee for $25 millionThe acquisition will strengthen Graphy’s position in the creator ecosystem, while increasing its reach and enabling it to optimise its prod...
11 Oct, 2021, 04.42 PM IST
Unacademy allocates $20 million to group firm Relevel"The fundraise comes within four months of the launch of Relevel, on the back of strong traction witnessed in user growth, hiring company p...
01 Oct, 2021, 03.13 PM IST
Unacademy shuts Mastree after a year of acquisitionUnacademy had invested $5 million in Mastree in July last year as it wanted to strengthen its presence in the K-12 learning space. Mastree ...
03 Sep, 2021, 11.44 PM IST
Dragoneer, Zeta’s Bhavin Turakhia participated in Unacademy’s latest funding roundBhavin Turakhia — who made his first ever startup investment — and existing investor Dragoneer together put in $10 million in Unacademy’s $...
13 Aug, 2021, 01.08 PM IST
Unacademy valued at $3.4 bn post new funding, will diversify beyond edtech: CEO Gaurav MunjalUnacademy’s cofounder Gaurav Munjal plans to use the new funding to build new lines of business in segments such as jobs and hiring, where ...
02 Aug, 2021, 09.02 AM IST
Unacademy acquires live game streaming platform Rheo TVThe Bengaluru-based edtech startup will fully acquire Rheo TV, and enable the exit of all existing investors.
26 Jul, 2021, 07.08 PM IST
Unicorns, soonicorns on a hiring spree as Covid-19 accelerates digital adoptionDuring the pandemic, the unicorns offered jobs to more than 45,000 people, while soonicorns hired nearly 20,000.
10 Jul, 2021, 06.44 AM IST
Unacademy acquires majority stake in TapChiefTapChief is Unacademy’s seventh acquisition in the past 12 months, and will enable the edtech startup to build Unacademy Pro.
16 Feb, 2021, 09.29 PM IST
Unacademy gets $11.5 million from Sequoia, SAIFThe company will also significantly invest in producing its own know ledge-based content with educators on the platform.
14 Sep, 2017, 08.53 AM IST
Unacademy content with Rs 30 crore in Series A funding"We will invest in technology and how to scale through technology. Secondly, we want to get the best educators. In the near future, we aim ...
13 Jan, 2017, 08.35 AM IST
Online learning portal Unacademy raises Rs 30 crore led by Nexus Venture Partners and Blume VenturesGirish Mathrubootham, CEO of Freshdesk and Ananth Narayanan, CEO of Myntra along with Stanford Angels have also participated in the round.
12 Jan, 2017, 11.03 PM IST