Mumbai: School The growth of the direct learning platform led by the community has associated in the US-based private equity, Capital Sequoia Capital India and Edutech-focus on Owl Ventures investment company, which leads the $ 5 million funding round along with more than 70 angel investors.
Leading angels participating in seed funding rounds including entrepreneurs such as Kunal Shah and Nikhil Kamath and several international angels such as Austen Allred who founded The Lamda School, said Startup.
School of growth, which positions itself as a ‘university-on-the-cloud’, partnering with top industry experts to create cohort-based courses has high impact on personal and professional growth for students.
This platform carries top mentors from companies such as from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Swiggy etc.
which teaches real things, can be followed up and practically that can be applied by job seekers in the real world and all programs and workshops are made along with mentors to provide Complete learning experience.
Bengaluru-based startup was founded in 2020, as a bootstrap company with a team of six members, plans to use funds to expand his team and build a strong technology platform besides exploring a newer market and also explores Metavers for education or University -on-the-Cloud , Vaibhav Sisinty, founder of Growth School told PTI.
Sisinty, however, refused to share the details of equity dilution for $ 5 million.
Until now, approaching 2 Lakh users have accessed growth school courses that include performance marketing, how to become freelance, how to build and sell your NFT, how to invest in Cryptos, how to start a D2C business etc., he said, adding this following ‘pay-per -Program ‘with costs starting from Rs 10,000 to RS 35,000 depending on the course and duration.
Sisinty said unlike greater rivals such as upgrades, platforms do not offer degrees or work placements.
He further said that even in low cost structures, the company was profitable and debt free.
Sequoia India has partnered with the founders of BYJU’s, Carooousell, Druva, Gojek, Oyo Rooms, Tokopedia, Truecaller, Zilingo, Zomato and more, while Ubara Based Silicone Valley is the largest business capital fund in the world with education technology with education technology more than $ 2 billion in Aum.
Sequoia, Owl Ventures Board Growth School with Funding $ 5 Mn
