Seed Funding For Online Education Start-Up Leverage Edu

Give and take phenomenon was yet again witnessed. Leverage Edu of New Delhi, an online platform which offers students higher education services through its website leverageedu.com was seed funded by potential investors for strengthening its team and development of the product. However quantum of the amount was not disclosed. It is move to tap in the market that search giant Google and consultancy firm KPMG estimate will grow almost eight times to hit $1.96 billion by 2021.

The investors who made it possible were Kashyap Deorah, founder of HyperTrack; VRL Logistics Managing Director Anand Sankeshwar; Sadashiva NT, former Chief Financial Officer of Babajobs; and Arjun Mehta, former CFO at American Express India, among others.

It’ll Be Used For Development Of Education

Founded in April, 2017, Leverage is led by Akshay Chaturvedi and Rajiv Ganjoo. Chaturvedi, an alumnus of Indian School of Business, was earlier a Senior Executive at recruitments portal Babajobs. This also includes stints at CL Educate and Veritas. It incorporates machine learning to aid students to be at par with 2500 colleges and 100 experts procedure, offer college admissions and finance services, which include help in creating profiles for universities, writing research papers, filing patents and dedicated counseling through experts. It aids students to be at par with 2500 colleges and 100 experts. To universities, Leverage offers UnivGateway, a Saas-based (software-as-a service) tool to help them admit the right students.

“As per the official statement of Leverage Edu which is in the same segment as that of Careers360, their machine intelligence and a well organized team of experts guide the students in choosing the right, and avoid the selection of inexperienced traditional options, many times family members,” said Chaturvedi. This software of Leverage will provide help to aspiring student work on her applications, get on-demand mentoring, access to education loans and foreign exchange, living, and much more.”