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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
Unacademy’s Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini to step down, marking the end of Indian edtech’s golden period
With the founders stepping back and focus shifting to AirLearn, the company becomes the latest casualty in India’s crumbling edtech dream.
28 May 2025
Karan Bajaj, the serial startup hustler, is back
The guy who preyed on your insecurities and sold coding classes for your kids is back to help your loved ones fight cancer. Don’t say we did not warn you.
17 May 2025
Physics Wallah files confidential draft papers for IPO
The Noida-based startup is looking to raise around $500 million, at a significant premium over its $2.8 billion valuation as of September last year.
18 Mar 2025
Physics Wallah to raise funding at $3.7 billion valuation
The edtech startup once again defies a broader funding slump in the sector as it moves towards an IPO.
11 Feb 2025
Is AI the new hype in edtech?
At the ASU+GSV & Emeritus summit in Gurugram, even as experts rallied behind AI, everyone seems to have forgotten the significant failures in the last five years.
05 Feb 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
NCLT questions Byju’s resolution professional over CoC reconstitution
The bench has highlighted the resolution professional’s failure to address the NCLT’s objections made in August over the removal of key lenders from the committee of creditors.
11 Dec 2024
Dissecting the Byju’s fraud: Who owns Epic and Osmo?
The Bengaluru-based edtech company seems to have flogged its US assets multiple times over the years, putting a question mark on the ownership of the entities that stood guarantee for its $1.2 billion term loan.
10 Dec 2024
VCs on startup boards: what do they even do?
Indian startup boards have been repeatedly caught sleeping on the job in the face of irregularities, weak processes and unethical practices. A number of factors—ranging from emotion to self-interest—are to blame.
24 Nov 2024