A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public, startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo-founder. During the beginning, startups face high uncertainty and have high rates of failure, but a minority of them do go on to become successful and influential, such as unicorns.
The Asian Academy of Film and Television is an Indian media and arts college located in Uttar Pradesh, North India. It was founded in 1993 and has an affiliated ed-tech platform named AAFT Online. Filmmaker Sandeep Marwah serves as the institution’s founder and president.
Babbel GmbH, operating as Babbel, is a German subscription-based language learning software and e-learning platform, available in various languages since January 2008.
Vedantu is an Indian multinational online tutoring platform launched in 2014 based in Bengaluru, India. It primarily provides services to students from grades 4 to 12.
Funding Societies is a Southeast Asian digital financing platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), headquartered in Singapore. It was the first such platform in Singapore to engage an escrow agency to independently and safely manage investors’ funds. In Indonesia it is known as Modalku. Since its launch, it has disbursed more than US$2.6 billion in business financing to MSMEs through more than 5.1 million loan transactions.
FilmDoo.com is a UK-based video-on-demand (VOD) platform that specialises in independent and world cinema.
Preply is an online language learning marketplace, connecting tutors to hundreds of thousands of learners in 180 countries worldwide. More than 35,000 tutors teach over 50 languages, powered by a machine-learning algorithm that recommends the best tutors for each learner.
Byju's is an Indian multinational educational technology company, headquartered in Bengaluru. It was founded in 2011 by Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath. As of January 2024, Byju's made a valuation ask of $200 million, a sharp fall given its peak valuation of $22 billion in 2022. As of April 2023, the company claims to have over 150 million registered students.
PT Ruang Raya Indonesia, doing business as Ruangguru is a startup company focusing in education. The premium service focuses on helping students in understanding school curriculums, as well as helping with exams, particularly standardised tests.
QANDA is an AI-based learning platform developed by Mathpresso Inc., a South Korea-based education technology company. Its best known feature is a solution search, which uses optical character recognition technology to scan problems and provide step-by-step solutions and learning content.
Divya Gokulnath is an Indian entrepreneur and educator who is the co-founder and director of Byju's, an educational technology company founded in 2011 in Bangalore, India.
Unacademy is an Indian multinational educational technology company that provides online educational platform with its headquarters in Bangalore. It prepares students for various competitive exams, as well as provides content on foundational (K-12) and skill building courses. It was founded by Gaurav Munjal, Hemesh Singh and Roman Saini in 2015. As of May 2022, Unacademy was valued at US$3.44 billion.
The uLesson Group commonly known as uLesson, is a Nigerian edtech company, also operating as an online education platform through uLesson Education mobile application for primary and secondary E-learning. It was founded in 2019 by Sim Shagaya.
Kimeshan Naidoo is a South African entrepreneur and engineer. He is known for co-founding Unibuddy, an educational technology company. Unibuddy became a $100 million enterprise by market cap in 2020. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of BX Technologies, a London-based climate tech startup. In June 2024, Ashinaga announced Naidoo joined their UK board of trustees to bring his technical expertise to their Ashinaga Africa Initiative.
Physics Wallah Private Limited is an Indian multinational educational technology company headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The company was founded by Alakh Pandey in 2016 as a YouTube channel aimed at teaching the physics curriculum for the Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE). In 2020, Pandey, along with his cofounder Prateek Maheshwari created the Physics Wallah app, which allowed students to access courses related to the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Exam (JEE). In June 2022, after raising $100 million during its initial funding round, the company reached a valuation of $1.1 billion, becoming a unicorn company.
Ayman Sadiq is a Bangladeshi educator, entrepreneur, and founder of 10 Minute School, an online platform that provides free educational resources. He has received several awards, including the Queen's Young Leader Award and has been listed in Forbes' "30 Under 30 Asia."
Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions is a chain of schools, junior colleges, hostels, coaching institutions for IIT-JEE, NEET, EAMCET and UPSC-CS preparation and degree colleges across India. The academic director of Sri Chaitanya is Sushma Bopanna.
AlGooru a Startup and platform specialized in educational technologies located in Saudi Arabia. It has won many local and international awards, including first place in the “Innovate” Award and the Entrepreneurship World Cup for the Top 20 Startups (EWC2022), It was also ranked on HolonIQ's list of the top 50 promising emerging companies in the field of education in MENA and CrunchBase top 20 Saudi companies in the field of education, and it is considered one of the most prominent online education platforms in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region.
Sushma Bopanna,, is the chief executive officer and academic director at Sri Chaitanya and is a founder of Infinity Learn.
