Jungle Ventures, Sequoia back overseas edtech startup Leap in $17-mn round

Overseas education startup Leap, which is building a suite of products and services for students to study abroad, has raised $17 million in Series B round of funding led by Singapore-based Jungle Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital India and Owl Ventures. This comes in less than a year after Leap raised $5.5 million led by Sequoia Capital India, taking the total capital raised by the startup to $22.5 million.

The Silicon Valley-headquartered startup will use the new capital to expand its product portfolio. It plans to further strengthen its team across technology and business functions, expand geographically and grow its