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The math learning platform is growing fast and expanding globally. Success will depend on how smartly it can manoeuvre the very pitfalls that have crippled peers.

The existential crisis plaguing India’s edtech startups is no joke. The sector has become a graveyard of once-promising companies catering to students from kindergarten to grade 12. Byju's, valued at $22 billion at its peak, bit the dust—and how. Vedantu saw major layoffs. Unacademy closed its K-12 vertical. Cuemath slowed down significantly. And Lido Learning simply folded. But one company has survived this wreckage, and been largely under the radar.
Bengaluru-based Bhanzu is a maths education platform founded by Neelakantha Bhanu, also known as the “world’s fastest human calculator”. Going by the latest financials, the startup is chugging along well …
Physics Wallah’s desperate pursuit of growth has led to another bold announcement. The latest move centres around one of India’s most competitive test-prep pockets.
Four years after Bodhi Tree’s investment, the test-prep giant remains caught between a slowing legacy business and growth bets that are still in their infancy.
As the company weighs a move into test prep ahead of a 2027 IPO, the question is whether entering a category from which upGrad has consciously stayed away so far makes sense.