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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
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There are doubts aplenty on doubt-solving as a viable business on a standalone basis. So why the sudden interest in Doubtnut?
Editor's note: This story might not have happened if Doubtnut hadn’t raised Rs 224 crore (about $31 million) in the latest round of funding led by US-based venture capital firm SIG Investments and James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems in February. The announcement came in less than six months after most people had written off Doubtnut and, by extension, the doubt-solving space, following the collapse of its talks for a possible acquisition by Byju’s. Let me give you some context. It’s a well-established fact that doubts are the biggest impediments on the road to learning, and people across the world have been working to create technology-based solutions around doubt-solving. In India, though, we were unsure of how to tackle the problem. Have a doubt? Go for tuition and get it sorted. Mostly, this worked. No one actually saw the scale in doubt-solving or tried to create a solution. That is, till HashLearn, a mobile tutoring platform, started in 2013. But it was the entry of Doubtnut in 2016 that changed the game. Suddenly, everyone was talking about how much time educators spent during each …
There are doubts aplenty on doubt-solving as a viable business on a standalone basis. So why the sudden interest in Doubtnut?
Editor's note: This story might not have happened if Doubtnut hadn’t raised Rs 224 crore (about $31 million) in the latest round of funding led by US-based venture capital firm SIG Investments and James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems in February. The announcement came in less than six months after most people had written off Doubtnut and, by extension, the doubt-solving space, following the collapse of its talks for a possible acquisition by Byju’s. Let me give you some context. It’s a well-established fact that doubts are the biggest impediments on the road to learning, and people across the world have been working to create technology-based solutions around doubt-solving. In India, though, we were unsure of how to tackle the problem. Have a doubt? Go for tuition and get it sorted. Mostly, this worked. No one actually saw the scale in doubt-solving or tried to create a solution. That is, till HashLearn, a mobile tutoring platform, started in 2013. But it was the entry of Doubtnut in 2016 that changed the game. Suddenly, everyone was talking about how much time educators spent during each …
For one of the world’s largest and shrewdest investors to entirely skip putting money in the country is a sign of how quickly the nature of the Indian startup ecosystem has changed.
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.
The latest quarterly report on the emirate’s real estate market, a new listing in Saudi Arabia and an Airtel arm eyes a UAE IPO.
For one of the world’s largest and shrewdest investors to entirely skip putting money in the country is a sign of how quickly the nature of the Indian startup ecosystem has changed.
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.
The latest quarterly report on the emirate’s real estate market, a new listing in Saudi Arabia and an Airtel arm eyes a UAE IPO.
