Top 10 Edtech companies to work in Singapore

Top 10 Edtech companies to work in Singapore

1. Xseed
2. 1. Founded in 2008
   2. Founder: Ashish Rajpal
   3. The tutoring platform is positioned as one of the most affordable online ed-tech platforms. It caters to classes 6 to 12 grade students in India. And also to students preparing for competitive examinations like IIT JEE, NEET. Organization has grown extremely fast and is quite a known name among student fraternity. Recently in June 2022, it raised $100 million in its Series A funding round led by UK-based Westbridge and GSV Ventures, a global VC fund focused on digital education.

                   If you are a tutor or want to work in non-teaching managerial roles, the organization is well positioned to                       give you a stable and growing career.

    2. Byjus:  

1. 1. Founded in 2011
   2. Founder: Byju Raveendran
   3. Byjus was founded to focus on the K12 segment. It became the first Asian organization to receive funding from the Chan-Zuckerberg initiative. With trends favoring online classes, they have expanded their offerings and now started introducing courses for preschool kids in the name of Byju’s Early in collaboration with Disney and special JEE and NEET preparatory material in collaboration with Aakash Institute. They also have programs for IAS preparation. This makes them attain the top spot so far as EdTech companies in India are concerned.

Although it is a well known brand to work for but lot of times it has come into news for their aggressive work culture. It can promise a fulfilling career for ambitious professionals who are talented and want to progress faster up the corporate ladder.

Top 10 Edtech companies to work in Singapore

3. Vedantu

• Founded in 2014
• Founder: Vamsi Krishna, Pulkit Jain, Saurabh Saxena, Anand Prakash
• Vedantu is another leader in K-12 LIVE tutoring domain. Every month, over 35 Mn users access Vedantu both on app and web. Its Youtube channel gets 65 million views, the highest in the K-12 segment for any educational company in India. Vedantu has also tied up with Airtel TV and TATA Sky for dedicated channels. It is one of the fastest growing online education companies in this space and the overall second-largest company in K-12 in terms of revenue and number of students.

4. CareerCarta

• Founded in 2019
• CareerCarta is one the few coaching institutes in this space that offers personalized tutoring, customized SOP Services to students primarily looking to go outside India for higher education. GMAT, GRE and University Applications are their expertise. Organization is quite lean and only invites applications once/twice a year for its key positions. It is best for professionals who seek freelance side hustles for generating additional incomes and having passion to teach. 

5. Unacademy

• Founded in 2015
• Founders: Gaurav Singh, Roman Saini, Hemesh Singh
• Unacademy was one of the organizations in the EdTech space that became the revolution in online education. It democratized access to high quality education by providing free education to UPSC aspirants. Now the offerings are diverse with a huge team of professional tutors. 

6. Classplus

• Founded in 2018
• Founders: Mukul Rustagi, Vatsal Rustagi, Bikash Dash, Nikhil Goel and Bhaswat Agarwal
• This is not a tutoring platform but it enables tutors to uplift their existing operations going digital. It offers its backend technology engine to educators and enables them to scale up their reach through its app, webpage, testing platforms, and payment gateways offerings.

7. Testbook

• Founded in 2014
• Founders: Ashutosh Kumar, Narendra Agrawal, Manoj Munna, and Praveen Agrawal and Arpit Oswal
• It is a platform that focuses on government jobs focussed competitive exam preparation but now has expanded to academic competitive exams. Banking Courses, Railways Courses, SSC & Government exams, Defence Courses, State Exams, Insurance courses to name a few.

Top 10 Edtech companies to work in Singapore

8. Collegedunia

1. Founded in 2014
2. Founders: Sahil Chalana
3. Collegedunia focuses on bridging the information gap between colleges and students before admission. A student can research and compile information on various courses and institutions both in India and abroad India. It has rankings, and multiple other factors’ wise segregation – course stream, placement, campus infrastructure, course tuition fees, admission cycle, application procedure, and extracurricular activities. It attracts a large talent pool in product management, marketing from premium education institutes like IIT, IIM etc. Also known as one of the paymasters in the education space.

9. Toppr

1. Founded in 2013
2. Founders: Zishaan Hayath
3. Toppr is a one-stop after-school learning platform. It has more than 1.5 million learning pieces, including adaptive practice questions, solutions, concepts, and videos that come together seamlessly to give 360° learning. They use AI ML based algorithms, to create personalized learning paths for millions of school going students.

10. Upgrad

1. Founded in 2015
2. Founders: Ronnie Screwvala
3. Upgrad boasts of being South Asia’s largest higher EdTech company. With the latest technology, pedagogy, industry partners and world-class faculty, they create immersive and interactive online learning experiences for global learners. Primarily they focus on working professionals by helping them upskill while they work.