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Byju's
Byju's (stylised as BYJU'S) is an Indian multinational educational technology company, headquartered in Bengaluru. It was founded in 2011 by Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath. As of October 2024, various media outlets reported that Byju's valuation has now plummeted to zero, down from its peak valuation of $22 billion in 2022. In April 2023, the company claimed it had over 150 million registered students. In April 2024, according to a report by ''The Times of India'', Byju's has laid off approximately 500 employees, mainly from its sales and marketing departments. In July 2024, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) allowed Byju's parent Think and Learn to move forward insolvency proceedings in a plea filed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over unpaid dues amounting to over ₹158 crores. The order was later quashed by the NCLT Chennai after the two parties agreed to a settlement. History Byju's app was developed by Think and Learn Pvt. Ltd, a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byju Raveendran CEO Byju's
Byju's (stylised as BYJU'S) is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational educational technology company, headquartered in Bengaluru. It was founded in 2011 by Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath. As of October 2024, various media outlets reported that Byju's valuation has now plummeted to zero, down from its peak valuation of $22 billion in 2022. In April 2023, the company claimed it had over 150 million registered students. In April 2024, according to a report by the Times of India, ''The Times of India'', Byju's has laid off approximately 500 employees, mainly from its sales and marketing departments. In July 2024, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) allowed Byju's parent Think and Learn to move forward Insolvency, insolvency proceedings in a plea filed by the BCCI, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over unpaid dues amounting to over ₹158 crores. The order was later quashed by the NCLT Chennai after the two parties agreed to a settlement. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byju Raveendran
Byju Raveendran (born 5 January 1980) is an Indian entrepreneur, investor and educator who, with his wife Divya Gokulnath, co-founded Byju's. Early life and education Byju was born on 5 January 1980 in the Azhikode and Azhikkal, Azhikode village of Kerala, Kerala, India to Raveendran and Shobhanavalli, physics and mathematics teachers, respectively. He studied at a Malayalam medium school where his mother was a mathematics teacher and his father a physics teacher. He would skip classes and then learn at home. Career After completing his Bachelor of Technology, B.Tech from the Government College of Engineering, Kannur, he joined a multinational shipping company as a service engineer. During a vacation in 2003, he helped his friends who were studying for the Common Admission Test, CAT exam. He then took the CAT exam and scored in the 99th percentile. When he took the exam again, he again scored in the 99th percentile. Two years later, he continued helping people study for the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divya Gokulnath
Divya Gokulnath (born 1987) is an Indian entrepreneur and educator who is the co-founder and director of Byju's, an educational technology company founded in 2011 in Bangalore, India. Early life and education Divya was born and raised in Bangalore, Bengaluru. Her father worked as a nephrologist at Apollo Hospitals, while her mother was a programming executive with Doordarshan an Indian Government broadcasting company. Divya is the only child of her parents. During her childhood, Divya's father taught her science. Divya, a graduate of The Frank Anthony Public School, Bangalore, Frank Anthony Public School, went on to receive a Bachelor of Technology in Biotechnology from R.V. College of Engineering, RV College of Engineering. After her graduation in 2007, she met Byju Raveendran, her instructor for GRE preparation. Byju encouraged her to become a teacher due to her questions during breaks between the classes. Her career as a teacher began in 2008 at age 21. In 2020, she told ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tynker
Tynker is an educational programming platform, like Scratch, to help children learn coding skills, including game design, web design, animation and robotics. It includes courses in Minecraft Modding, Minecraft Game Design, Creative Coding, Python and CSS. Tynker is based on HTML5 and JavaScript, and can be used in browsers, or on tablet computers or smartphones. History The Tynker company was founded by Krishna Vedati, Srinivas Mandyam and Kelvin Chong in 2012 in Mountain View, California, United States with funds raised from angel and institutional investors. Tynker for Schools was launched in April 2013, with Tynker for Home the year after. 60 million students, in 90,000 schools, have used Tynker. In 2018, Tynker partnered with Mattel to produce branded coding experiences with Hot Wheels and Monster High. It also has partnerships with Apple, Google, Sylvan Learning, BBC Learning, Infosys Foundation USA, Microsoft, PBS and Lego. In September 2021, Tynker was acquired by B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GeoGebra
GeoGebra (a portmanteau of ''geometry'' and ''algebra'') is an interactive geometry, algebra, statistics and calculus application, intended for learning and teaching mathematics and science from primary school to university level. GeoGebra is available on multiple platforms, with apps for desktops (Windows, macOS and Linux), tablets ( Android, iPad and Windows) and web. It is presently owned by Indian edutech firm Byju's. History GeoGebra's creator, Markus Hohenwarter, started the project in 2001 as part of his master's thesis at the University of Salzburg. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, GeoGebra expanded its offering to include an iPad, an Android and a Windows Store app version. In 2013, GeoGebra incorporated Bernard Parisse's Xcas into its CAS view. The project is now freeware (with open-source portions) and multi-lingual, and Hohenwarter continues to lead its development at the University of Linz. GeoGebra includes both commercial and not-for-profit entit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic!
Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos targeted at children ages 12 and under. The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices. Epic! was founded in 2013 by Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue and launched in 2014. Indian educational technology company Byju's acquired Epic! in July 2021 in a cash and stock deal worth $500 million. On January 25, 2024, lenders began bankruptcy proceedings against Epic's parent company Byju's in an effort to repay its loans. On February 1, 2024, Byju's U.S. division filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. Byju's would raise around $200 million in an effort to clear "immediate liabilities" and for other operational costs. Content Books are available in read-to-me and audiobook formats and include both non-fiction and fiction titles, covering subjects and themes such as: STEM, language arts, social science, history, music, art, science fiction and DIY. Titles and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmo (game System)
Osmo is a line of hands-on educational digital/physical games product by the company Tangible Play, based in Palo Alto, California. Osmo's products are built around its proprietary “Reflective Artificial Intelligence,” a system that uses a stand and a clip-on mirror to allow an iPad or iPhone's front-facing camera to recognize and track objects in the physical play space in front of the device. Development Osmo was developed by Tangible Play, a company founded in 2013 by Pramod Sharma and Jérôme Scholler, ”two Stanford alums and ex- Googlers with kids.” They were inspired by observing Sharma's daughter, then five years old, interact with an iPad. "She had her face glued to screen, which seems unhealthy and not natural," according to Sharma. The partners created a game system that uses a mirror over the camera to turn the screen into “an interactive partner in physical games” ''Time'' named Osmo one of the 25 Best Inventions of 2014 and in 2017, Fast Company named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unacademy
Unacademy is an Indian educational technology company headquartered in Bangalore. It provides an Distance education, online educational platform that hosts online courses and exam preparation materials. The company was founded by Gaurav Munjal, Hemesh Singh and Roman Saini in 2015. As of May 2022, Unacademy was valued at United States dollar, US$3.44 billion. History Unacademy started off as a YouTube (channel), YouTube channel created by Gaurav Munjal in 2015 when he was an engineering student in Mumbai. Gaurav uploaded a short video tutorial on computer graphics on his YouTube channel to help his peers prepare for the semester exams. In December 2015, Gaurav Munjal roped in two of his friends, Hemesh Singh and Roman Saini, and launched Unacademy app to create free interactive content. In 2018, Unacademy acquired WiFiStudy for $10 million, a Jaipur-based online exam preparation and learning platform. In 2020, it acquired Kreatryx, an online preparation platform for Graduate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathematics
Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many areas of mathematics, which include number theory (the study of numbers), algebra (the study of formulas and related structures), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), Mathematical analysis, analysis (the study of continuous changes), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of mathematical object, abstract objects that consist of either abstraction (mathematics), abstractions from nature orin modern mathematicspurely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to proof (mathematics), prove properties of objects, a ''proof'' consisting of a succession of applications of in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Business Insider
''Business Insider'' (stylized in all caps: BUSINESS INSIDER; known from 2021 to 2023 as INSIDER) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007. Since 2015, a majority stake in ''Business Insider''s parent company Insider Inc. has been owned by the international publishing house Axel Springer. It operates several international editions, including one in the United Kingdom. ''Insider'' publishes original reporting and aggregates material from other outlets. it maintained a liberal policy on the use of anonymous sources. It has also published native advertising and granted sponsors editorial control of its content. The outlet has been nominated for several awards, but has also been criticized for using factually incorrect clickbait headlines to attract viewership. In 2015, Axel Springer SE acquired 88 percent of the stake in Insider Inc. for $343 million (€306 million), implying a total valuation of $442 million. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Business Line
''Business Line'', known as ''The Hindu Business Line'', is an Indian business newspaper published by Kasturi & Sons, the publishers of the newspaper ''The Hindu'' headquartered in Chennai Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ..., India. The newspaper covers priority industry verticals, such as agriculture, aviation, automotive, IT, in weekly specials. The paper is printed at 17 centres across India, reaching metros as well as emerging Tier I and Tier II cities. ''Business Line'' has a daily circulation of 1,17,000 copies, per the Audit Bureau of Circulation in 2016. See also * List of newspapers in India References External links * 1994 establishments in Tamil Nadu English-language newspapers published in India The Hindu Group Newspapers published in Kolk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Entrepreneur (magazine)
''Entrepreneur'' is an American magazine and website that carries news stories about entrepreneurship, small business management, and business. First published in 1977. it is published by ''Entrepreneur Media Inc''., headquartered in Irvine, California. The magazine publishes 10 issues annually, available through subscription and on newsstands. It has been published under license internationally in Mexico, Russia, India, Hungary, the Philippines, South Africa, and others. Its editor-in-chief is Jason Feifer and its owner is Peter Shea. History Since 1979, ''Entrepreneur'' has annually published a list of its top 500 franchise companies. The magazine also published many other lists and awards, one of the most prominent being the Entrepreneur 360 formed to identify businesses mastering the art and science of growing a business. Companies are evaluated based on the analysis of 50-plus data points organized into five pillars; Revenue and Customers, Management Efficiency, Innovation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
