TruScholar Secures Pre‑Series A Funding to Build AI‑Powered Digital Credential and Employability Platform

TruScholar, a digital credentialing and employability platform powered by AI and Blockchain, has successfully closed its Pre-Series A funding round.

This milestone marks an important step in TruScholar’s journey to build trusted digital infrastructure that connects institutions, learners, and employers through verifiable credentials and career-enablement tools.

Solving a Larger Problem Than Digitisation

Across education and hiring ecosystems, credentials have increasingly moved into digital formats. However, most certificates, marksheets, and academic records still remain static in nature — often stored as PDFs or paper documents and verified through fragmented manual processes.

While digitisation improves storage and accessibility, it does not fully solve the more critical issues of trust, usability, and outcome relevance.

Institutions continue to face operational and compliance burdens in managing records and responding to verification requests. Employers struggle with credential validation and trusted candidate screening. Learners, despite holding authentic credentials, often find that these documents do not automatically translate into career direction, employability, or opportunity.

In many cases, credentials remain proof of completion, but not instruments of progress.

TruScholar’s Approach

TruScholar addresses this challenge by building a trusted digital credential and employability infrastructure that enables:

• institutions to issue tamper-proof, verifiable digital credentials
• learners to securely access and manage credentials through a digital wallet, including DigiLocker integration
• employers to verify credentials instantly and access trusted candidate information

Going beyond verification, TruScholar has also built an employability layer that helps convert static credentials into actionable career tools. These include:

• AI-powered resume builder
• ATS compatibility checker
• AI career coach for pathway and learning recommendations
• AI interview preparation tools

Through this integrated approach, TruScholar is working to transform credentials from passive records into active career enablers.

Growth and Milestones

TruScholar has already issued over 2 million credentials, with growing adoption across institutions and organisations.

Importantly, the company has built this growth on a profitable (PAT-positive) and sustainable business model.

The company has also been shortlisted for the Aadhaar Verifiable Credentials (VC) ID’athon organised by UIDAI, where only 6 startups out of 175 applicants were selected.

Adding to its thought leadership in the sector, TruScholar recently collaborated with The Economic Times Education to publish the journal:

“Roadmap for Future-Ready Campuses: Digitalization, Trust & Employability.”

This initiative reflects the company’s commitment not only to building products, but also to contributing to the broader dialogue on the future of education, digital trust, and employability.

Global Relevance

The need for trusted and outcome-driven credential infrastructure is not limited to India.

Over the past year, TruScholar has showcased its platform at major education and innovation forums across key international markets, including:

• London, UK – BETT
• USA – BadgeSummit, 1EdTech, and TiE Silicon Valley
• Dubai – GESS
• Hong Kong – Digital Universities Asia 2025

Across these markets, one clear insight has emerged:

• The demand for trusted, verifiable, and career-connected credential systems is universal.

Use of Funds

The newly raised capital will be deployed toward:

• strengthening go-to-market capabilities and pan-India expansion
• building deeper partnerships with institutions and enterprises
• advancing AI-powered employability offerings
• scaling TruScholar’s global credential infrastructure

Founders’ Vision

Founded in 2019 by CA Mayur Zanwar (Founder, CEO & CFO) and Samit Singhai (Founder & CTPO), TruScholar is building the digital trust layer connecting education, credentials, and careers.

What began as a blockchain-based credential verification solution has today evolved into a broader platform designed to help learners move from credential to career, while enabling institutions and employers to operate with greater trust, speed, and efficiency.

The founding team combines expertise across technology, compliance, education, and ecosystem building, with a shared focus on solving real-world challenges related to trust, employability, and digital transformation.

Acknowledgements

TruScholar acknowledges the support of its investors — SucSEED Indovation Fund, PadUp Ventures, Vinners, and angel investors from the TiE Global community — as well as ecosystem partners including TiE Global, NASSCOM, ISB Dlabs, ICAI, and GUSEC.

Looking Ahead

The future of education and employment will not be shaped by credentials alone, but by verifiable skills, trusted digital identities, and meaningful pathways to opportunity.

This funding round is more than a financial milestone for TruScholar.

It is a step toward building the trust infrastructure that the future of learning and hiring will increasingly depend on.