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Byju’s has acquired ed-tech startup WhiteHat Jr. for $300 million

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By Editor Desk Published August 10, 2020
Last updated: 2020/12/14 at 10:15 AM
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Byju’s has acquired ed-tech startup WhiteHat Jr. for $300 million
In this photo taken on January 10, 2019, Byju Raveendran, founder of Byju's, the Bangalore-based educational technology start-up, poses at the company's premises in Bangalore. - From a multi-billion-dollar education startup to wired-up mannequins, technology is helping to revolutionise the way Indian schoolchildren are learning -- provided their parents can afford it. (Photo by MANJUNATH KIRAN / AFP) / To go with 'INDIA-ECONOMY-EDUCATION-TECHNOLOGY-AMAZON',FOCUS by Vishal MANVE (Photo credit should read MANJUNATH KIRAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Byju’s has acquired ed-tech startup WhiteHat Jr. for $300 million

ed-tech unicorn byju’s has received smaller rival whitehat jr for $three hundred million in an all-coins deal. The purchase – byju’s largest so far – marks the organization’s access into the quick-developing on-line coding section targeted at schoolchildren. Founder byju Raveendran said he will make “massive investments” in whitehat jr and hire greater teachers to amplify it to new markets. The deal is also in all likelihood to provide whitehat jr’s traders a sturdy exit: the Mumbai-based organization became founded simply 18 months ago. Byju’s is among the most-funded ed-tech corporations globally, having raised almost $1. Five billion. Whitehat jr, founded in 2018 by Karan Bajaj, the former CEO of discovery networks India, operates inside the k-12 section, coaching college students to code and supporting them construct commercial-geared up games, animations, and apps, using the fundamentals of coding. The startup has developed a proprietary coding curriculum, centered on product creation, and imparts lessons thru live, interactive online lessons. It claims to be clocking a sales run fee of $150 million. Dc advisors acted as the exclusive. The all-coins deal makes 18-month-antique Mumbai-centered whitehat jr., which gives online coding instructions to school-going students in India and u. S., the quickest go out tale at this size inside the Indian startup atmosphere. Whitehat jr., which had raised approximately $11 million from Omidyar Network, owl ventures, and nexus assignment companions, claims it has finished an annual revenue run charge of $150 million. It’ll keep operating as a separate entity, for now, a byju’s spokesperson informed TechCrunch.

Karan Bajaj Founder Of WhiteHat Jr

“we commenced whitehat jr. To make children creators instead of clients of generation,” said Karan Bajaj, founder of whitehat jr., in an announcement. “technology is on the middle of every human interaction nowadays and we had set out to create a coding curriculum that turned into being brought live and linked college students and instructors like never before

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