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19 ARTICLES
Gaurav Munjal’s exit from Unacademy turns messy over money, special demands
With the test-prep company struggling, Munjal wants Rs 200 crore each for co-founders to leave, exposing India’s broken founder-investor power dynamic.
10 Jun 2025
Five big developments that we tracked closely this year
From the Byju’s flameout to the fresh Adani tempest, The Morning Context helped cut through the clutter around the big developments in Indian business.
28 Dec 2024
Unacademy is up for sale, merger or bailout
Soon after the Byju’s debacle, Unacademy is in distress. Once a high-flying edtech startup, it is searching for a respectable way out.
02 Jul 2024
Byju’s is in no rush to save Gaurav Munjal’s Unacademy
A merger with Aakash would have given Unacademy a shot at making a go of it in offline coaching. Without it, Munjal’s task of keeping his company afloat is that much harder.
03 Apr 2023
Exponent’s rapid-charging reality, Gaurav Munjal’s latest pivot
Exponent Energy and Altigreen show off the world’s fastest-charging EV; Unacademy-owned Relevel restructures from an education business to a job portal in sign of desperation
13 Jan 2023
Five people in our stories this year
From Marico’s Harsh Mariwala to Unacademy’s Gaurav Munjal, famous personalities we wrote about this year.
27 Dec 2022
Gaurav Munjal’s last gamble
Amid layoffs, continuous churn and uncertainty in the edtech industry, Unacademy’s sole focus on offline could be Munjal’s last throw of the dice.
22 Nov 2022
Can Gaurav Munjal make Unacademy profitable?
As the core test-prep business of India’s second-largest edtech firm slows, its CEO begins chasing new ideas for a turnaround.
07 Nov 2022
Edtech job losses pile up + gig workers in focus
The great startup party is over and why the Indian government’s session on gig workers’ problems is too little too late.
03 Jun 2022
Troubled Invact Metaversity is in talks with Unacademy
The five-month-old virtual reality education startup is exploring everything, from liquidation to sale, amid a massive dispute between the founders.
23 May 2022