Hello English

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Hello English
Hello English.png
Type of site
 Privately held company
Available in22 languages
List of languages
Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Urdu, Punjabi, Malayalam, Oriya, Assamese, Nepali, Bangladeshi, Indonesian, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, Turkish and Thai [1] [2]
Founded2014;9 years ago (2014)
Headquarters Jaipur, India [2] =
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s) Nishant Patni
Pranshu Patni
Industry E-Learning, Online Education
Parent Intap Labs Private Limited
URL www.helloenglish.com
RegistrationYes
Users 50 million (as of September 2020) [3]
LaunchedOctober 2014;8 years ago (2014-10)
Current statusActive

Hello English is an English language-learning application, which allows users to learn the English language through interactive modules. [4] [5] [6] [7] It functions on a freemium pricing model. The app is available on Android, iOS, Windows and Web. [8] [9]

Contents

History

Hello English was launched in October 2014 by CultureAlley. [10] It is an edtech startup co-founded by Nishant Patni, an alumnus of IIT Bombay and Kellogg School of Management along with Pranshu Patni, an alumnus of NMIMS, back in December 2012. [11] [5] [12] [1] [13] It runs under Jaipur based Intap Labs Private Limited. [14] [15] [16]

Funding

The platform raised $6.5 million in Series-A funding led by New York-based venture capital firm Tiger Global Management in March, 2015. [17] [18] [19] [20] The other participants included Kae Capital (led by Sasha Mirchandani), and 500 Startups, California, and angel investors - Rajan Anandan and Sunil Kalra.[ citation needed ]

The platform had previously raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Kae Capital in 2013. [21]

Features

The application consists of 475 interactive lessons and games associated with reading, writing, speaking, and listening and has gamification mechanics in the app. It has a bilingual dictionary, available in 22 languages. [4] [22]

Awards/Recognition

See also

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