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Unacademy started off as a YouTube channel created by Gaurav Munjal in 2015 when he was an engineering student in Mumbai. [8] Gaurav uploaded a short video tutorial on computer graphics on his YouTube channel to help his peers prepare for the semester exams.
Unacademy: 3.4 August 2021 [194] Educational technology India Gaurav Munjal Plus.ai: 3.3 May 2021 [195] Self-driving trucks United States Starburst Data 3.3 February 2022 [196] Data analytics United States Thumbtack: 3.2 June 2021 [197] Software United States Marco Zappacosta: ApplyBoard: 3.2 June 2021 [198] Educational technology Canada
Gaurav Munjal, Co-Founder and CEO, Unacademy; Amit Lodha, IPS officer and author; Shashindra Pal Tyagi, 20th Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force [6] [7] Vikrant Bhargava, Co-founder, Party Gaming [8] Admiral Madhvendra Singh, former Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy [9]
Agrawal was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan. [4] [5] His father was a senior official in the Indian Department of Atomic Energy and his mother is a retired Economics professor from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute in Mumbai.
Rohinton Soli Screwvala (born 8 September 1956), known professionally as Ronnie Screwvala, is an Indian entrepreneur, investor and film producer. [2] [3]He has been named on Esquire's List of the 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century [4] in 2008 and ranked 78 among the 100 most influential people in the world on the Time 100 (compiled by Time Magazine, 2009). [5]
The company was launched in 2014. [1] Its name, Vedantu, is derived from the Sanskrit words Veda (knowledge) and Tantu (network). [2] The organization is run by IIT alumni Vamsi Krishna (co-founder and CEO), Pulkit Jain (co-founder and head of product), Saurabh Saxena (co-founder) and Anand Prakash (co-founder and head of academics).
In 2019, Omidyar Network and WaterBridge invested about $470,000. [6] In January 2020, the company raised $15 million in Series A round of funding from Tencent Holdings, and existing investors Sequoia Capital and Omidyar Network India.
In his early career, Bajaj worked for Procter & Gamble, The Boston Consulting Group [14] and Kraft Foods. [3] In 2016, he moved to Mumbai as CEO of Discovery Networks, where he headed Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet and Discovery Kids in South Asia. [2]