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40 ARTICLES
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
Past imperfect, future tense for Indian edtech
A dissection of where Indian edtech went wrong and what its future could be.
27 Sept 2024
Physics Wallah defies the edtech slump with $210 million fundraise
The edtech startup is a bright spot in a sea of disappointment, but can it stay the course? Separately, Dailyhunt’s latest pitch should be taken with a pinch of salt.
20 Sept 2024
Unacademy is up for sale, merger or bailout
Soon after the Byju’s debacle, Unacademy is in distress. Once a high-flying edtech startup, it is searching for a respectable way out.
02 Jul 2024
Teacher Anshul Agrawal’s fight against Unacademy exposes deeper problems
A lawsuit filed by Unacademy’s former tutor reflects the strain between the test-prep company and its educators. It also indicates the wider problem of too much money chasing too few educators in India.
21 Apr 2024
Unacademy CFO Subramanian Ramachandran quits
It’s the third senior exit at the edtech startup in the past couple of months, and also follows the resignation of CFO Ajay Goel at rival Byju’s this month.
31 Oct 2023
How did Indian VCs get their edtech hypothesis so wrong?
A significant plank of India’s startup story was the potential of the edtech sector. VC projections have now come a cropper and their limited partners need to ask the hard questions.
10 Oct 2023
Byju’s is in no rush to save Gaurav Munjal’s Unacademy
A merger with Aakash would have given Unacademy a shot at making a go of it in offline coaching. Without it, Munjal’s task of keeping his company afloat is that much harder.
03 Apr 2023
Deeply unprofitable Unacademy announces another round of layoffs
Co-founder Gaurav Munjal today announced a 12% cut internally, amounting to more than 350 employees, after two rounds of firings last year.
30 Mar 2023