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Edtech firm Upgrad has reported a narrowing of loss to Rs 273.35 crore in the financial year ended March 31, 2025, according to a regulatory filing shared by market intelligence Tofler. The edtech firm had posted a loss of Rs 559.5 crore in the same period a year ago. When contacted, Upgrad said, "The profit before tax is a loss of Rs 273.75 crore, and adding back depreciation, interest, and other income, we have an EBITDA positive of Rs 15 crore." The revenue from operations of Upgrad increased by 5.5 per cent to Rs 1,569.3 crore during the reported fiscal from Rs 1,487.62 crore a year ago. On a standalone basis, Upgrad loss narrowed to Rs 333.25 crore while its revenue from operations grew 5.5 per cent to Rs 1,074.54 crore in FY'25 from Rs 1,018 crore in FY'24. The standalone total income of Upgrad increased by 4.4 per cent to Rs 1,119.62 crore from Rs 1,071.59 crore in FY'24. "Upgrad Education Private Limited operates as an online higher education company, reported its revenue
The initial public offering of edtech unicorn PhysicsWallah received a lukewarm response from investors by garnering only 13 per cent subscription, a day before it closes on Thursday. The bid will close on November 13. The Rs 3,480-crore initial share sale received bids for 2,38,20,601 shares against 18,62,04,143 shares on offer, according to the NSE data. The portion for retail individual investors received 58 per cent subscription, while the quota for non-institutional investors was subscribed 6 per cent. However, qualified institutional buyers bid for just 6,302 shares out of 10,11,55,340 on offer. On Monday, PhysicsWallah said it has raised Rs 1,563 crore from anchor investors. This will be the first major pure-play edtech company to list on the country's bourses. The company fixed a price band of Rs 103-109 per share for its IPO, which may peg its valuation at over Rs 31,500 crore at the upper end. The IPO comprises a fresh issue of equity shares worth Rs 3,100 crore and a
Think & Learn, which owns edtech brand Byju's, on Monday moved the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal against the NCLT order, which last week declined its plea to restrain Aakash Educational Services from convening its EGM for the rights issue. On October 17, 2025, the Bengaluru-based bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) declined to grant any interim relief on the second plea filed by the insolvency-bound edtech firm Byju's to stay the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) scheduled for October 29, 2025. Meanwhile, a two-member bench of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) at Chennai, comprising Justice N Seshasayee and Jatindranath Swain, on Monday reserved its order on an application filed by the GLAS Trust Company LLC, the US-based lender of the debt-ridden firm Byju's, regarding the EGM. GLAS Trust, which owns over 90 per cent of the voting rights in the Committee of Creditors of Byju's, had earlier filed an application before the appellate ...