Byju's pushes back payments for billion-dollar Aakash deal“WhiteHat Jr is focused on providing quality education to young students while continuing to build a strong business. To realign with our b...
29 Jun, 2022, 05.27 PM IST
View: The world is looking at India to show the way in EdTechWhat is common among these edtech unicorns? The founder of PhysicsWallah (PW), Alakh Pandey, comes from a modest background in Allahabad, s...
14 Jun, 2022, 10.21 AM IST
Social media users troll WhiteHat Jr ads for overexposureThe constant exposure to advertisements by WhiteHat Jr, which teaches coding to school students online, has turned into a nuisance, users h...
25 May, 2021, 02.19 PM IST
Run outFrom Kangana Ranaut being permanently suspended from Twitter, to WhiteHat Jr withdrawing its defamation lawsuit and startups being roped in...
04 May, 2021, 07.46 PM IST
Byju’s to launch Byju’s Future School in push for overseas expansionByju's Future School, which will start off by offering maths and coding tutorials and subsequently be expanded to include science, music, e...
09 Apr, 2021, 09.21 AM IST
2020 Year in Review | Of startup squabbles and billionaire battlesFrom Khatabook Vs Dukaan over IP rights to Reliance vs Amazon over Future Retail, 2020 saw its fair share of tiffs between Indian tech comp...
29 Dec, 2020, 06.43 PM IST
WhiteHat Jr says it has fixed a leak that exposed data of 2.8 lakh usersThe exposed data at the online coding platform for school kids included student names, age, gender, images, user IDs, and progress reports
26 Nov, 2020, 05.00 AM IST
Delhi High Court grants interim relief to WhiteHat Jr founder in defamation lawsuitIn a statement to the media, counsels for WhiteHat Jr said that the startup "is supportive of free speech" but emphasised "the need to dist...
24 Nov, 2020, 06.36 PM IST
Delhi High Court grants interim relief to WhiteHat Jr founder in defamation lawsuitThe Court has restrained the startup's vocal critic Pradeep Poonia from commenting and directed him to take down a few tweets.
24 Nov, 2020, 09.38 AM IST
NSE Academy buys majority stake in edtech platform TalentSprintTalentSprint offers advanced certification programs in emerging and deep technologies to aspiring and experienced professionals using a hyb...
18 Nov, 2020, 12.09 AM IST
Byju’s raises $500 million in round led by Silver Lake, valuation almost $11 billionSince the lockdown, Byju’s has seen over 20 million new students start learning from its platform for free. Today, the app has over 64 mill...
08 Sep, 2020, 12.16 PM IST
Byju's investor feels India has key factors necessary to create top-tier edtech companiesWith one of the largest student populations in the world, increasing access to the internet and connected devices, and the tremendous impor...
07 Sep, 2020, 09.36 AM IST
Byju’s parent buys WhiteHat Jr in $300m cash dealAfter the acquisition, Byju’s will make significant investments in WhiteHat Jr’s technology platform, product innovation while expanding th...
07 Aug, 2020, 02.54 PM IST
Byju parent makes $300 million cash offer for WhiteHat JrThe company, which is valued at about $10.5 billion, has been on a capital raising spree over the course of the current calendar year, with...
05 Jul, 2020, 10.59 AM IST
Situations Vacant: 12,000 jobs on offer in edtechThere are currently around 12,000 active openings for permanent job roles across levels at leading edtech companies, according to an estima...
03 Jun, 2020, 03.59 PM IST
Top investors line up to evaluate $50 million round in WhiteHat JrAccording to sources aware of the developments, GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore, Renuka Ramnath-led home-grown private equity f...
21 May, 2020, 09.52 PM IST
Former Discovery India head’s EdTech startup raises $10 million in Series A roundNexus Venture Partners, Omidyar Network India and Owl Ventures have funded Karan Bajaj-founded WhiteHat Jr.
11 Sep, 2019, 06.44 PM IST