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
Upgrad in talks to acquire Unacademy for $300-320 million, 90% lower than its peak valuationUnder the proposed structure, Unacademy shareholders will receive shares in Upgrad, valued at $2 billion presently, sources told ET. The co...
07 Nov, 2025, 06.07 PM IST
Unacademy cofounder Sumit Jain appointed chief executive of the test-prep businessJain joined Unacademy after he sold his startup Opentalk to the edtech company. He had also founded real estate listing portal Commonfloor ...
24 Sep, 2025, 10.10 PM IST
Exclusive: Unacademy founders Munjal, Saini set to exit, shift focus to AirLearnUnacademy cofounder Gaurav Munjal is stepping down as CEO, with Sumit Jain taking over amid a company reset and focus on AirLearn. Fellow c...
28 May, 2025, 05.31 PM IST
Unacademy now ‘default alive’, to cut cash burn to Rs 200 crore in 2025: CEO Gaurav MunjalUnacademy aims to reduce cash burn to under Rs 200 crore in 2025, a sharp drop from Rs 1,000 crore in 2021. CEO Gaurav Munjal says the star...
21 Apr, 2025, 07.41 PM IST
Unacademy’s FY24 losses narrow 62%, revenue declines 7% as business shrinksThe SoftBank-backed edtech startup, which has undergone multiple restructuring exercises, logged operating revenue of Rs 840 crore, down 7%...
17 Dec, 2024, 11.12 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
Unacademy fires 250 employees in fresh round of layoffsUnacademy layoffs: Unacademy has laid off around 100 people from core functions like business development and marketing and the rest are fr...
02 Jul, 2024, 08.25 PM IST
Unacademy cofounder and CTO Hemesh Singh quits edtech startupHemesh Singh, cofounder of Unacademy, transitions from CTO to advisory role after a decade. Singh's exit is the latest in a series of high ...
09 Jun, 2024, 01.09 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 elevates Jagnoor Singh as COO of offline centres businessSingh was Unacademy group’s chief business officer for a little over two years. The reorganisation comes in a series of top-deck changes at...
25 Jan, 2024, 07.48 PM IST
Unacademy appoints Pratik Dalal CFO of its offline centres businessDalal was most recently heading business finance at Cred, prior to which he was VP of business finance at Flipkart.
16 Jan, 2024, 07.27 PM IST
Unacademy to be profitable at group level in April: CEO Gaurav MunjalWith a cash balance of Rs 1,977 crore and an average monthly burn of Rs 17 crore, the Unacademy group will have at least 116 months of runw...
25 Apr, 2023, 06.00 AM IST
Edtech unicorn Unacademy’s consolidated loss widens to Rs 1,474 crore in FY21Unacademy's revenue from operations rose to Rs 337 crore in FY21 from Rs 65 crore in the previous fiscal year.
25 Jun, 2022, 12.16 AM IST
Bombay HC stays order that barred Unacademy from using PrepLadder appSenior counsel Virag Tulzapurkar and advocate Hiren Kamod, who appeared for Unacademy, argued that the lower court’s order was “completely ...
24 Sep, 2021, 02.48 PM IST
Accenture says Unacademy hack has no impact on its data"Accenture has no professional relationship with Unacademy, and any implication or assertion otherwise is erroneous. Accenture has suffered...
08 May, 2020, 09.16 PM IST
Unacademy information on sale on the darkwebAccording to Cyble, the database including usernames, emails and passwords was up for sale on May 3 for $2,000.
08 May, 2020, 04.44 PM IST