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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Internet, e-learning |
| Founded | Delhi, India in April 2007 |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Co-founders Aditya Singhal, Nishant Sinha |
| Products | Online tutoring, Homework Assistance |
Transweb Educational Services, founded in 2007 by Aditya Singhal and Nishant Sinha, is an online tutoring and educational website. [1] [2] The website provides educational resources to students from grade 4 to university level, through its five websites. [3]
Transweb comprises five websites: askIITians, eMedicalPrep, Transtutors, Transwebtutors and Mycollegeabroad.
A number of these websites provide services such as virtual classrooms, with text chat, audio chat and shared whiteboards. [8] [9] [10]
AskIITians is in collaboration with the Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand to provide "three-month free coaching for preparing engineering and medical examinations" to students, utilising an "online base [with] live, interactive classrooms by the institute." [11] [12] [13] Rural students of RGNV get free education, boarding and lodging facility and around 150 students get online assistance in evening after the school is over. [14]
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