Angel Investments
Edtech co Masai School raises funding from Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma, others
Twenty-one founders and serial entrepreneurs including CRED's Kunal Shah, Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm and Delhivery's Mohit Tandon have invested in Bengaluru-based upskilling and reskilling company Masai School. Other angel investors who participated in this round include Amrish Rau of Pine Labs; Ankush Sachdeva, Bhanu Pratap Singh and Farid Ahsan of Sharechat; Amit Kumar Agarwal and Akhil Gupta of NoBroker; Vipin Pathak of Care24; Ramakant Sharma of LivSpace; Abhishek Goyal of Tracxn; Anurag Jain of KredX; Harsh Lunia of LendingKart; Sunil Rao of Amazon; Sharda Balaji of Novojuris and Kulin Shah of Onsurity. Masai offers six- to seven-month-long courses in full stack web development, Android development, UI and UX etc to anyone who has passed class 12. The company also partners with tech companies for the placement of these students.
From the Venture Intelligence PE-VC Deal Database: Between May-19 and Mar-21, Masai School raised over $8-M from India Quotient, Unitus Ventures, Omidyar Network and others. (Subscribers to the database can login to view the valuation, deal structuring and other transaction details.)
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