AlmaBetter Launches AlmaBetter Innovarsity To Provide Data Science, AI PG Courses

Kalaari Capital-backed edtech upskilling startup AlmaBetter on Monday (July 31) said it has launched an autonomous institute, AlmaBetter Innovarsity, to provide post-graduate courses in data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and software development.

The institute has affiliated with Woolf, US, a global collegiate higher education institution, and will offer a master’s degree in computer science, with an option of four specialisations – data science and data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, software engineering, and cloud computing, AlmaBetter said in a statement.

The master’s degree programs are 15 months long and aim to equip 5,000 learners with a degree in computer science by April 2024, the statement added. 

AlmaBetter also said it has allocated INR 50 Cr for the institute and a part of this fund will go towards scholarships and improving students’ overall learning experience.

AlmaBetter Innovarsity is targeting working professionals who want to switch to a tech career, as well as recent graduates who are looking to venture into niche tech roles. 

AlmaBetter, founded in 2020 by Shivam Dutta, Vikash Srivastava, Ravi Kumar Gupta, Arshyan Ahsan and Alok Anand, offers upskilling courses in domains such as data science, software development and blockchain.

In November last year, the startup raised $2.7 Mn in a seed funding round led by Kalaari Capital. The round also saw participation of Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Kumar from Meesho, Rajesh Yabaji from Blackbuck, among others.

The development comes at a time when the ongoing funding winter has hit the edtech startups the hardest. While BYJU’S, the poster boy of India’s edtech ecosystem, is fighting battles on multiple fronts, a number of edtech startups like Udayy, Crejo.Fun and Super Learn shut their operations over the last year or so.

As per Inc42’s layoff tracker, Indian edtech startups have also laid off over 8,000 employees since last year.

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