Why Doubtnut shouldn’t be written off as yet

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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 …