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India's edtech firms aim global as a massive consolidation plays out

Some players are worrying about factors that could topple over this nascent edifice

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Imaging: Ajay Mohanty

Anjuli Bhargava New Delhi
Cherry-picking usually has pretty specific seasons in most countries that grow the much-loved fruit. In India, there’s been an extended season for cherry-picking for edtech fir­ms that began during the pande­mic and continues to date. Alm­ost everyone is scouting for the right picks and companies are getting gobbled up overnight.

As the race to form the “largest school in the sky” and to offer their courses and teachings to students in every corner of the globe picks up, many contenders are gearing up. The frenzy that India is witnessing is happening in the US too where more recently MIT’s not-for-profit