Unacademy: News
Having the backing of tech giant Facebook, Nexus Venture Partners, General Atlantic, and Sequoia, Unacademy is an education technology firm. They focus on exams like UPSC CSE, SSC, IIT JEE, NEET-UG, NEET-PG, bank entrances, NTA-UGC NET, etc. Started by Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini and Hemesh Singh, the Bengaluru-based startup claims to be “India's largest learning platform.” Reports say that Unacademy has around 1L subscribers and has seen an 82% surge in revenue in April, as compared to March 2020. The five-year-old company also has a section titled Legends on Unacademy, where famous people share their inputs on a certain topic. Till now, Shashi Tharoor, Kiran Bedi, Brian Lara, Jonty Rhodes, Sunil Gavaskar, Anushka Sharma-Virat Kohli have hosted such classes.
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Hemesh Singh, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of edtech giant Unacademy, has announced that he will transition from an executive role to an advisory one.
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The ed-tech industry in India continues to boom amid the raging pandemic. And, now ed-tech start-up Unacademy has successfully raised $440 million in a new funding round led by Singapore's state-run Temasek Holdings.
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Online grocery store BigBasket filed a police complaint in Bengaluru, after learning that data of two crore of its customer could have been compromised.
Ed-tech start-up Unacademy raises $150 million, joins elite unicorn club
Bengaluru-based ed-tech start-up Unacademy has joined the elite unicorn club of India.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), on Saturday, named 'Unacademy' as the official partner of the Indian Premier League 2020 season.
Data of 2.2cr Unacademy users hacked, available at Rs. 1.5L
Unacademy, one of the biggest online learning platforms in India, has suffered a massive data breach.
Indian ed-tech start-up Unacademy raises $110M from Facebook, others
Unacademy, one of the fastest-growing ed-tech start-ups in India, has now been backed by the biggest social media company in the world - Facebook.
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