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Sachin Tendulkar to teach cricket online on edtech platform Unacademy

Edtech unicorn announces the launch of 'Unacademy Icons' to provide a structured curriculum taught by industry icons

Focus on expanding into new categories, international markets: Unacademy

Unacademy is focussed on aggressively building out its presence across new categories and explore international expansion in the next few years, its co-founder Roman Saini said

Unacademy announces programme to educate 500,000 girl students in India

Online education startup Unacademy on Friday announced a new programme - Shikshodaya - that aims to educate five lakh girl students in the country. Unacademy, which is backed by investors like Tencent and SoftBank, said the initiative will transform the lives of 20 lakh people, as an employed woman is likely to have an impact on a family of 4-5 members. Educating a girl child not only impacts the individual but also her family and society, Unacademy Group co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal told reporters here. "Unacademy's vision is to democratise high quality education for everyone irrespective of their demographics and economic status. With Shikshodaya, we want to enable some of that transformation and look forward to creating social impact on a large scale by empowering 5 lakh girl students," Munjal said. Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, said edtech has the potential to provide innovative, cost-effective methods to transform education and can play a powerful role in achieving ...

Unacademy buys top K-10 online tuition platform Swiflearn for unknown sum

Founded in 2019, Swiflearn is an online platform for academic courses, which provides personalised home tuition experience from top quality teachers

Unacademy-backed Graphy acquires edtech platform Spayee for $25 mn

Post acquisition, Spayee will continue to operate independently; it allows content creators to produce customised courses in audio and video, PDF documents, quizzes, assignments and live classes

Unacademy, Udaan, CRED top startups in India, finds LinkedIn survey

With these top three unicorns, nearly 60 per cent of the 2021 LinkedIn Top Startups India List are based out of Bengaluru

Edtech startup Unacademy gets $440 mn funding, valuation crosses $3.44 bn

Unacademy Group's valuation has grown almost ten times in 18 months, riding on demand for online training

Unacademy raises $440 million in fresh funding at $3.44 billion valuation

Over the last 18 months, the valuation of the Unacademy Group has risen almost 10X.

Edtech firms Byju's, Unacademy, upGrad to benefit as Chinese players tumble

Indian edtech companies have had a dream run, helped by the pandemic and education moving online

SoftBank-backed Unacademy announces teacher stock options worth $40 mn

Unacademy competes with players such as Byju's, Vedantu, Simplilearn, UpGrad, Amazon Academy, and traditional education institutes

SoftBank-backed Unacademy acquires game streaming platform Rheo TV

Unacademy will fully acquire Rheo TV and enable exit of all existing investors; deal value not disclosed

IPL 2021 cancelled: BCCI, teams may lose more than Rs 3,000 crore

On an average the BCCI earns Rs 67 crore from every match broadcast. It earned Rs 4,000 crore from the IPL in 2020 and was expected to earn a similar amount this time

Cred boss, Unacademy co-founder, others back healthcare startup Onsurity

The startup which began its journey last Feb has on boarded 700 SMEs as healthcare partners

Sachin Tendulkar takes guard for new innings at edtech firm Unacademy

The investment will pave the way for Tendulkar to become a brand ambassador of Unacademy

Vivo returns as title sponsor of IPL in 2021 after one-year gap

The announcement signals an end to the search for Vivo's replacement, which had gathered pace last week, following speculation that the Chinese company had made up its mind to exit the marquee event

Facebook-backed Unacademy buys professional networking platform TapChief

Post acquisition, TapChief will join the Unacademy Group with a valuation of Rs 100 crore

Top headlines: Digital tax proposal may end up in court, Ruia's faith

Amit Shah said the process of granting Indian citizenship to refugees under the CAA, will begin once the process of Covid-19 vaccination has ended. Read top stories with Business Standard

Unacademy, Dream11 eye IPL 2021 title rights; Vivo may exit sponsorship

Vivo likely to exit sponsorship; Byju's ruled out

Vivo may transfer IPL title rights; Dream11, Unacademy in contention

With IPL set for 9 or 10-team expansion in 2022, it is expected that the new bidder will get at least a three-year title sponsorship rights

Tiger Global, others buy $50 mn shares from existing investors of Unacademy

The edtech unicorn has concluded secondary share transaction. Deal helps Tiger Global, Dragoneer Investment Group, Steadview Capital and General Atlantic double down on their investment