Helps schools students develop career guidance and relevant skills before college. Students get access to an AI mentor (MU20 Coach), bootcamps and in-school career inubation labs to give htem exposure to entrprenuership, AI and data science and more. It currently works with 300 schools. $500K pre-seed round. Founded in Jan 2018, Indore based. Founders: CEO Tejas (ISB '26) and COO Madhur seem to have started this out of college.

AI-led personalised learning and skilling courses. With certified programs, the platform covers 200 in-demand skills including cybersecurity, HR, project management and AI roles. Users have seen placements into companies like Google, PhonePe, Novartis, Reliance Retail and Jio. Revenue scale undisclosed. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Formerly known as CareerNinja. Founded in May 2020, Mumbai based. Founders: Shronit (Veermata Jijibai Technological Institute '14) led sales and innovation for the real estate vertical at construction firm Bucon Engineers and Infrastructure for four years; Gargi (SPJIMR '16) was head of Product & Marketing at Sweet Dreams (a clothing brand) for five years.

EdTech platform for professionals to improve their English communication combining AI with live 1-1 tutors. 10% of its users are from outside India, which will become a focus area. 75% of tutors are women who can earn up to ₹65K working from home. At ₹5CR annualised revenue, up from ₹2.3 the prior year, with 100K registered users. Their online community has 75K YouTube and 32K Instagram followers. ₹1CR round. Founded in Mar 2021, Gurgaon based. The three founders - Vikas (CEO), Piyush (CMO) and Sandeep (CFO) - are engineering students from the Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology ('23), during which time they started EnglishYaari.

Startup building "research manuals". Its first one, an UX for AI Research Manual, is a Notion-based manual built for students, product designers and startups who need a structured approach to build products with AI capabilities - learning the basics before they jump in to using products/tech. Seed round of an undisclosed amount from undisclosed investors. Founder Anil holds a dual role, as head of Product Design at ConverzAI (Seattle based, AI powered virtual recruiters). Founded in Dec 2020.

Skilling and placement platform for nursing students and professionals. Uses gen-AI for personalised training and simulates real-world clinical scenarios. It also supports nursing professionals with mock interviews, resume building and automated assessment tools for job readiness. It claims to "reach 2M learners monthly". It also partners with hospitals and other healthcare service providers for placements. Now building out in regional languages for Tier 2/3 cities. Undisclosed seed round. Other investors in the round: Aayush Phumbhra, along with other angels and family offices. Founders: three of the founders, Prince, Utkarsh and Gourav, studied their Bachelors in Medicine from AIIMS Jodhpur before starting NPrep. The fourth founder, Shrey Gupta, is not linked here. Founded in Jul 2023.

EdTech platform for upskilling engineers. "We started Protrainy to address a critical skill gap in professional education across core sectors like construction, manufacturing, and energy." Taught via cohort-based classes, on-demand video courses and project-specific modules. 20K learners to date, with 70% claimed to have secured promotions, new roles or salary increases. Co-branded skilling programs with IIT Guwahati, IIT Roorkee and others. Undisclosed seed round. Other investors in the round: AIC Nalanda, Dhiraj Sinha (SucSEED), Suresh Reddy, Dr.Moti Vyas, Avantika Sahay. Founders: Biswajit (KIIT - Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology) was a Junior Manager at JSW Infrastructure for four years. Founded in Aug 2020.

AI-driven English learning platform. Offers a voice-first tutor for English as a second language. Users improve their spoken English - across fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. The app has 4M installs, ~500K MAUs and 45K paying users. Expansion will focus on Latin America (40% of revenue today) and South East Asia. The majority of users are already outside India. $3.75M Pre-Series A round. Other investors in the round: Rebright, Force Ventures, GradCapital, Operators Studio. The founders started building Stimuler midway through college - three are from IIT BHU, the fourth, CTO Akshat Baranwal (not linked below) is from IIIT Allahabad.

Teaches entrepreneurship all the way from K12 (Bower SEED) to executive education (Bower Lead) though certificate programs. Launching an undergraduate program (on campus in Hyderabad) and developing an AI-powered course builder this year. ₹11.5CR seed round led by angels and Astir. Founder Pavan was the founder of Metamorphosis Edu, acquired by BrightCHAMPS.

AI tutor for every student - personalised, affordable. AI tutors for India (PadhAI for UPSC aspirants) and the US (EverTutor for GRE prep). Now launching EverTutor Live, an 1:1 AI Tutor that thinks, listens, talks, draws and teaches on a video call. $9.5M seed. Other investors in the round: General Catalyst, Peak XV, Calibrate Ventures, Courtyard. CEO Karttikeya (IIT-B, PhD in AI from UC Berkeley), was a Visiting Research Scientist at DeepMind and Meta during his PhD. Co-Founder and Advisor Kurt Keutzer is an AI researcher at Berkeley. Comps: Arivihan (GSF, Accel).

One-stop-shop to help students answer all their questions regarding colleges, courses and exams - covering 6,000 institutions across 500 cities. Content on the platform is a funnel to drive 1-1 counselling sessions. Seed round of an undisclosed amount. Sanjay was CBO at Collegedunia.