Unacademy's New Film Draws A Link Between Cricket And Learning, Goes Viral

BENGALURU, India , Nov. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Unacademy has released a new film named 'Cracking the Game' to mark its first year of association with the Indian Premier League and celebrate the continuous process of Learning -- which can come from all walks of life. The film draws a fun correlation between cricket moments seen on field during the Dream11 IPL 2020 tournament, and a student's desire to learn.

The film starts by asking students what they have learnt from this year's IPL, and then goes on to connect sporting moments to learning concepts such as Pythagoras theorem, magnetic induction, Darwin's theory of evolution, melting point of metals, etc.

The video has already garnered over 2.5 million views across social media & digital platforms, with overwhelming positive reviews. Over 2 million views of the video have come on Twitter alone, becoming yet another viral campaign of the EdTech major.

Watch the film here: https://twitter.com/unacademy/status/1325399160854441984

As the official partner of the IPL, Unacademy has integrated marketing activations into matches such as 'Unacademy Ask the Expert', 'Unacademy Learn from the Best', 'Unacademy Fan of the Match', and 'Unacademy Cracking Sixes'. These activations have helped the brand create buzz and awareness at a pan-India level.

About Unacademy Group:

Unacademy is an education technology platform founded by Gaurav Munjal , Roman Saini , and Hemesh Singh in 2015. It was started as a YouTube channel by Gaurav Munjal in 2010. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Unacademy is India's largest learning platform that brings expert Educators together with millions of students in need of quality education. With a growing network of more than 18,000 registered educators and 30 million learners, Unacademy is changing the way India learns. The Unacademy group consists of Unacademy, Unacademy Subscription, Wifistudy, Kreatryx, PrepLadder, CodeChef, Graphy, Chamomile Tea with Toppers and Let's Crack it Brands. The company is backed by prominent investors such as Facebook, General Atlantic, Sequoia India, SAIF Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Steadview Capital, and Blume Ventures.

To know more download Unacademy Learning App from Play Store, App Store or visit us at www.unacademy.com

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSFiZv3L2Y

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Unacademy Launches 3 New Categories under Plus Subscription

Unacademy, India’s largest learning platform, today announced the launch of 3 new categories under Plus Subscription- Law, CA and NEET PG. With huge scope and demand in these categories, they also demand a lot of focus for preparation along with determination and perseverance to crack the competitive exams in these categories.

CLAT saw nearly 60,000 candidates appeared for the exam this year as compared to 58,000 last year. The increase in the number of applicants clearly shows the increase of interest and demand for Law courses across the country. NEET saw a rise of 14.52% rise in registration, with around 1,48,000 candidates participating for the exam this year. MCI (Medical Council of India) has also notified that 2019 onward NEET is compulsory for all candidates who want to pursue medical courses abroad. CA CPT saw a drop-in pass percentage by 7.71% as compared to the pass percentage of last attempt (Dec-2018). With a total of 28,303 students appearing for the exam, only 5764 cleared the exam.

Unacademy aims at giving the aspirants access to the best teachers and complete their entire preparation online without any financial or geographic barriers. The launch will help Unacademy to build the world's largest education platform and provide quality education by leveraging the power of technology. The educators at Unacademy teaching these categories are highly experienced and are well-known faces across the country. These categories will have complete subjects’ coverage, topic wise courses including rapid revision, last-minute revision strategies, test series and more.

Commenting on the launch of these new categories, Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder, and CEO, Unacademy said, “Many candidates end up losing the chance of getting into their dream college due to lack of focus and time-management skills. These categories have the toughest competitive exams and the preparation can be plain-sailing through the teachings of expert educators. Plus Subscription gives the learners a more streamlined and holistic learning experience."

Currently, Unacademy Plus has more than 50,000 subscribers. Already available for 30 exam categories, it gives learners preparing for various examinations unlimited access to live classes by the best teachers in the country. Learners get a personalised learning experience that is augmented by doubt-clearing sessions with the educators, interactive classes and a live test series.

Currently, the Plus Subscription is available for 30 categories - UPSC CSE, IIT JEE, NEET & AIIMS, SSC Exams, CAT, NTA-UGC NET, Bank Exams, IELTS, MPPSC/VYAPAM, MPSC, Railway Exams, RPSC, UPPSC/UPSSSC, TNPSC, CDS/AFCAT/CAPF, GMAT, GATE, Karnataka PSC, APPSC/TSPSC, Kerala PSC, WBPSC, Ujian Tulis Berbasis Komputer, CSIR-UGC NET, Teacher Eligibility Test (TET), NDA/Airforce X and Y/Navy, ESE, Foundation & NTSE, CA Exams, Law Entrance Exams and NEET PG. More than 1000 live classes are conducted every day on Plus by 400+ Educators.

Founded by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini and Hemesh Singh in 2015, Unacademy is changing the way India learns. Unacademy’s Educator App helps educators create high quality educational lessons, that learners’ access via the Learning App.

The platform currently has more than 10,000 registered educators and 13M learners. The company has raised a total of $88.6 million from Steadview Capital, Sequoia India, Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures, and others.

Unacademy has the largest distribution for educational videos on its free platform. YouTube and Unacademy lessons have more than 160M monthly views across these platforms. Unacademy’s YouTube channels currently have more than 18M subscribers.

About Unacademy:

Unacademy is an education technology platform founded by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini and Hemesh Singh in 2015. It was started as a YouTube channel by Gaurav Munjal in 2010. Headquartered in Bengaluru, Unacademy is India’s largest learning platform that brings expert educators together with millions of students in need of quality education. With a growing network of 10,000 registered educators and 13 million learners, Unacademy is changing the way India learns. The Unacademy group consists of Unacademy, Unacademy Plus, Wifistudy, Chamomile Tea with Toppers, Unacademy Studios. The company is backed by prominent investors such as Sequoia India, SAIF Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Steadview Capital, and Blume Ventures.

Unacademy Raises $50 Mn in Series D led by Steadview, Sequoia India and others

Bangalore-based educational technology company Unacademy that offers online education has raised $50 million Series D round of funding led by Steadview Capital, Sequoia India, Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures. The founders of Unacademy, Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini, also contributed to the round. The new round means the startup has raised close to $90 million to date.

Started as a channel on YouTube in 2010, Unacademy will use the latest funding capital in expanding the number of educators it has on the platform as well exam courses. It will also improve its product and expand the team.

To date, Unacademy has raised a total of about $90 Mn in six rounds of funding including the latest one. It last raised funds in July last year, when it had raised $21 million from Nexus Ventures, SAIF Partners, Sequoia Capital India among others. Prior to that, in eptember 2017, the startup raised $11.5 million Series B round of funding led by Sequoia India, SAIF Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures

Unacademy was founded by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, Hemesh Singh and Sachin Gupta. Gaurav and Hemesh were previously running Flatchat which was acquired by CommonFloor in 2014. Roman, 26, is a doctor from AIIMS and one of the youngest people to clear the prestigious Indian Civil Services Examination. To follow his passion, he quit his administrative services post as Asst. Collector of Jabalpur to start Unacademy.

Last October, Unacademy acquired WifiStudy, a Jaipur-based YouTube channel, for reportedly $10 million (~ Rs. 73.12 Crores) in order to tap the test preparation market and increase its presence in tier-2 and -3 cities among students who prepare for public recruitment exams including railways and banking.

Education sector in India, which has largest population in the world in the age bracket of 5 to 24 years is estimated to grow to $35 billion in next six years.

Unacademy, which also operates in Indonesia, competes with BYJU's, Toppr, Vedantu and Embibe. While BYJU's is dominating the global market. Vedantu, which raised $11 million in April, has recently launched a LIVE interactive learning platform called 'WAVE' (a revolutionary new LIVE learning platform), claiming it to be India's first.

Unacademy Raises $11.5 Mn In Series B Funding Led By Sequoia India, SAIF Partners

Learning platform Unacademy today announced the close of a $11.5 million Series B round of funding led by Sequoia India and SAIF Partners. Existing investors and angels including Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures also participated in the round.

Unacademy will utilize the funding to accelerate its product and technology as well as scale to other categories including personality development, new languages and job interviews. The company will also significantly invest in producing its own knowledge based content with its top educators on the platform.

Commenting on the development, Gaurav Munjal, CEO and co-founder, Unacademy said, “Our vision is to build the world’s largest online knowledge repository by empowering great educators. With the backing of Sequoia and SAIF, we are poised to significantly gain momentum and create the first global education technology product out of India.”

Unacademy is an online learning platform that empowers educators to create courses on various subjects. The platform currently has more than 50,000 lessons online and over 1 million registered users. It is also one of the largest education channels on YouTube India with 1 million subscribers.

The platform’s educators range from influencers like Dr Kiran Bedi to teachers in smaller towns and cities such as Dhiraj Singh Chouhan in Jagdalpur and Yasmin Gill in Panchkula.

“Sequoia India is inspired by Unacademy's vision to create a global platform that enables educators to create content and engage with learners. The missionary team at Unacademy is off to a tremendous start, achieving rapid early adoption and Sequoia is thrilled to be a part of their journey,” said Shailendra Singh, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital (India) Singapore Pte. Ltd.

Unacademy was founded by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, Hemesh Singh and Sachin Gupta. Gaurav and Hemesh were previously running Flatchat which was acquired by CommonFloor in 2014. Roman, 26, is a doctor from AIIMS and one of the youngest people to clear the prestigious Indian Civil Services Examination. To follow his passion, he quit his administrative services post as Asst. Collector of Jabalpur to start Unacademy.

Recently, the company added billionaire and serial entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia to the board.

Unacademy Raises Additional $1M from Blume Ventures, Stanford Angels India and Marquee Angels

Unacademy, Indian free online learning platform, has raised additional $1 million in their second round of external investment. In April 2016, they raised their first round of funding worth $500k. The current investment round is being led by Blume Ventures, along with Stanford Angels India, WaterBridge Ventures, Sachin Bansal, Binny Bansal, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Kunal Shah, Sandeep Tandon, Ashish Tulsian, Tracxn Labs and most of their existing investors participating in the round.

Unacademy is India’s largest free online learning platform that allows educators to create courses using their app on various subjects, including exclusive content for various competitive exams. Their vision is to get the best minds of the country share their knowledge in an easily comprehendible form. More than 100 educators have created 200+ courses in the last eight months since the launch of their platform Unacademy.in. The platform attracts more than 1M video views monthly now, their growth so far has been mostly organic.

“What started as an experiment has today become one of the most reliable sources of online education. From content specific to competitive examinations to basic English learning techniques, we are in a process to make Unacademy the one-stop destination for online courses across myriad fields and subjects. From IAS topper 2016, Tina Dabi, to India’s first woman IPS officer, Kiran Bedi, we aim to get courses from only the best on our platform. Within two months, the Unacademy Create app will be made available to all, so anyone across the world can create lessons in any language they like. After a thorough screening process, we will make the relevant lessons available on our platform that will be free for all to see,” says Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder and CEO, Unacademy.

In a span of eight months, over 300,000 students have benefited from over 2,400 online lessons and specialised courses on cracking various competitive examinations, on our platform. Our success stories include thousands of students who have cracked toughest of examinations, improved their ability to speak and write better and increase their knowledge. Some of our students have today become educators on Unacademy and that is what we call a true educational revolution. India is home to 19 per cent of the world’s youth and we are empowering them to take on the world in a manner that classrooms will never do. Our vision is to partner with the brightest minds and have courses on every possible topic in multiple languages so that the whole world can benefit from these courses.

Karthik Reddy,Managing Partner, Blume Ventures, says, “Unacademy presents a great example of the beginnings of an incredible shift in India’s Internet—the ability of millions of new internet users using smartphones as their only access device to create and consume high quality curated educational content as easily as laying hands on a textbook. And the product is designed for both lightweight production and consumption—in that it’s ingenious. This can change learning to an entirely different plane and kill a lot of ineffective institutional frameworks. And it’s an absolutely crack team of young founders for whom all else, including the IAS, didn’t compare to the ambitiou” goal and impact that an Unacademy can have. This is why we think tech can be such a game changer even in education in this country.”

Sachin Bansal, Executive Chairman, Flipkart, says, ”Education and learning from the best suited teachers and professionals is a global problem, which, I believe, Unacademy solves seamlessly with its interactive and intuitive content. In a short span of eight months, the founding team has proved that leveraging technology to empower its educators and students is a problem that can be solved effectively at scale. I am impressed by the ease with which educators can speedily upload videos and touch a billion lives with effective lessons. I am confident that the strong founding team of Unacademy is well positioned to truly disrupt traditional classroom teaching with more impactful content, and I am proud to back the venture.”

Kiran Bedi, Lt Governor, Puducherry, and also an educator at Unacademy, says, “ It took me ten minutes to make a video lesson on ’Time management and productivity’ on the Unacademy Create app, and impact a million lives with my learning. The overwhelming response from students, along with the simplicity with which the app has been designed, encourages working professionals to share their experience. It is an unconventional way for students to get the perspective of real life challenges and lessons and makes me believe everyone can be a teacher. I urge Unacademy to conduct lessons and workshops in Puducherry. Unacademy cuts across boundaries. It’s truly global and in one’s own hands.”

Ed Tech Platform Unacademy Raises $500K Led By Blume Ventures

Education technology platform Unacademy has raised $500,000 in a funding round led by Blume Ventures.

Other investors including Google's Rajan Anandan, CommonFloor founder Sumit Jain and redBus founder Phanindra Sama, TaxiForSure's founder Aprameya Radhakrishna and former Flipkart executive Sujeet Kumar also participated in the round.

"Delivery of education in India needs radical shifts," said Karthik Reddy, managing partner at Blume Ventures. "Unacademy is a manifestation of the team's vision to make all forms of educative material so intuitive and accessible that learning becomes extremely interesting and scalable."

Unacademy believe in making high quality educational videos available for free for everyone. The company's vision to have best explanation of every educational topic in all languages. It sees almost 1 million video views a month on it's YouTube channel and has more than 150,000 subscribers.

"Our platform/app will enable a super easy discovery of these videos - we are also working on ability for people to follow educators and get their feed populated by high quality educational content available for free," the company mentioned on its website.

Unacademy was founded by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini, Hemesh Singh and Sachin Gupta, with an aim to bring the world’s entire education on its platform in all languages.

In March, Bangalore based education technology startup FlipClass raised $1 million in funding from education content and services provider S Chand and Company Private Limited (S Chand) along with Blume Ventures. Also, in the same month, Avagmah, a Bangalore-based edtech startup focussed on higher education, founded in 2013, received funding from Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and former CEO & MD of Infosys and Atul Nishar, founder of Hexaware and Aptech Computer Education. In April 2016, Villgro also announced a new addition to its investment and incubation portfolio – Vahan, a mobile education platform for low- income adults.

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