Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures also participated in the round
Unacademy Founders, Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini also participated in the round
This is Unacademy’s Series D funding round
Edtech startup Unacademy has secured a mammoth $50 Mn from Steadview Capital, Sequoia India, Nexus Venture Partners and Blume Ventures. In the round, the company’s founders Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini also participated in a personal capacity along with Aakrit Vaish (cofounder and CEO, Haptik) and Sujeet Kumar (cofounder and CEO, Udaan).
The Bengaluru-based startup was launched by Munjal, Saini, Hemesh Singh, and Sachin Gupta in 2011. The company was initially started as a YouTube channel offering free tutorials. Later in January 2015, the company started offering free learning in lessons on every possible topic in multiple languages.!function(e,t,s,i){var n="InfogramEmbeds",o=e.getElementsByTagName("script")[0],d=/^http:/.test(e.location)?"http:":"https:";if(/^\/{2}/.test(i)&&(i=d+i),window[n]&&window[n].initialized)window[n].process&&window[n].process();else if(!e.getElementById(s)){var r=e.createElement("script");r.async=1,r.id=s,r.src=i,o.parentNode.insertBefore(r,o)}}(document,0,"infogram-async","https://e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js");