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Ronnie Screwvala's edtech startup upGrad eyes a global learning curve

The company wants to be among the world's top six edtech companies by 2025. Here's how it plans to get there

Surajeet Dasgupta New Delhi
Upgrad, Edtech
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The four-year-old upGrad can leverage the fact that it has a long run ahead to aggressively raise funds in the next few years without losing sleep over becoming a minority player.

Edtech billionaire Ronnie Screwvala believes that in the next four years there will be five to six edtech companies in the world with valuations of $40-50 billion each. More importantly, at least two or three of them will be India-based. So, he and his team, according to sources, are working aggressively to get into this coveted list.   Is he being overly ambitious?  His higher education and professional upskilling start-up upGrad joined the unicorn club only in August this year with a valuation of $1.2 billion, some distance from the magic number and from most of his competitors.
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First Published: Oct 20 2021 | 6:03 AM IST

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