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India’s biggest edtech startup is already being sued by lenders in the US over—among other defaults—an eight-month delay in filing audited financial statements for 2021-22.

Co-founders Alakh Pandey and Prateek Maheshwari made Physics Wallah the company it is today by keeping their focus on the digital media, test-prep business. With fresh funds at its disposal after the IPO, it is making the mistake of believing it is an education company.
In the making for many months now, the final outcome at the edtech startup is an instructive episode for both founders and venture investors on when they must let go.
Amid creditors’ allegations that the missing $533 million from a term loan is being quietly used to settle cases in India, Delaware bankruptcy court grants them unrestricted use of confidential documents to pursue the matter.