Aakash Chaudhry, cofounder of offline coaching institute Aakash Educational Services Limited, has secured a seed funding of $4 million (around INR 34 crore) from Zomato’s founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal and Zerodha’s cofounder and CEO Nithin Kamath for his new online tutoring platform Sparkl Edventure.
Sparkl was founded in October of this year by Chaudhry, Pavan Chauhan, and Ritesh Hemrajani of Meritnation. It provides tailored learning programmes for students navigating the worldwide waters of the worldwide Baccalaureate (IB) and Cambridge curriculum, as well as internationally accredited and trained teachers, AI-enhanced pedagogy, and its own technological platform.
Aside from Zerodha’s fintech and sustainability-focused fund Rainmatter and Goyal, other prominent investors are expected to join the cap table.