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Type of site | Privately held company |
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Available in | 22 languages |
Founded | 2014 |
Headquarters | Jaipur, India [2] = |
Area served | Worldwide |
Founder(s) | Nishant Patni Pranshu Patni |
Industry | E-Learning, Online Education |
Parent | Intap Labs Private Limited |
URL | www |
Registration | Yes |
Users | 50 million (as of September 2020) [3] |
Launched | October 2014 |
Current status | Inactive |
Hello English is a discontinued [4] [5] [6] [7] English language-learning application, which allows users to learn the English language through interactive modules. It was available on a freemium pricing model on Android, iOS, Windows and Web. [8] [9]
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]
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]
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]