Sequoia, Owl Ventures board upskilling platform Growth School with $5 million funding

Jan 27, 2022

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MUMBAI: Neighborhood-led reside studying platform Progress College has roped in US-based non-public fairness main Sequoia Capital India and edutech-focused funding agency Owl Ventures, who led a $5-million funding spherical together with over 70 angel traders. The main angels who participated within the seed funding spherical embody entrepreneurs comparable to Kunal Shah and Nikhil Kamath in addition to some worldwide angels like Austen Allred who based the Lamda College, stated the startup.
Progress College, which positions itself as a ‘university-on-the-cloud’, companions with prime business specialists to create high-impact cohort-based programs on private {and professional} progress for learners.
The platform brings in prime mentors from firms like from Google, Fb, Amazon, Microsoft, Swiggy and so on who train actual, actionable and sensible issues that job-seekers can apply in the actual world and all its programmes and workshops are co-created with the mentors to supply an exhaustive studying expertise.
The Bengaluru-based startup based in 2020, as a bootstrapped agency with a six-member staff, plans to make use of the fund to develop its staff and construct a sturdy tech platform other than venturing into newer markets and in addition discover metaverse for training or a university-on-the-cloud, Vaibhav Sisinty, the founding father of Progress College advised PTI.
Sisinty, nonetheless, refused to share particulars of fairness dilution for the $5 million funding.
Until date, near 2 lakh customers have accessed Progress College’s programs which embody efficiency advertising and marketing, easy methods to develop into a contract, easy methods to construct and promote your NFT, easy methods to spend money on cryptos, easy methods to begin a D2C enterprise and so on, he stated, including it follows a ‘pay-per-programme’ with charges starting from Rs 10,000 to Rs 35,000 relying heading in the right direction and period.
Sisinty stated not like its bigger rivals like upGrad, the platform doesn’t supply levels or job placements.
He additional stated that even at such a low payment construction, the corporate is already worthwhile and is debt free.
Sequoia India has partnered with founders of Byju’s, Carousell, Druva, Gojek, Oyo Rooms, Tokopedia, Truecaller, Zilingo, Zomato and lots of extra, whereas the Silicon Valley-based Owl Ventures is the world’s largest enterprise capital fund targeted on the training expertise with over $2 billion in AUM.



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