10,409 Edtech companies in India, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, where they are based, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated August 2026.
10,409companies tracked
$19.4Bdisclosed funding
880hiring right now
709events · 24 months
55,401news articles · 12 months
Who leads Edtech in India
The section lists the 10,409 tracked Edtech firms in India, highlighting the companies currently hiring, the best‑funded firms, and those most frequently covered in media.
The Edtech market map of India: what these companies actually do
It breaks down the types of products Edtech firms build and their primary revenue models, noting that consumer digital products dominate and most firms use subscriptions.
Future of Work723 companies · $219.7M raised · 86 hiring
Monetization
How Edtech companies make money
How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.
Subscription8,027
Advertising1,868
Fee-For-Service1,647
Commission on Transaction1,635
E-Commerce - Service1,318
E-Commerce - Product581
Physical Commerce148
Freemium121
Funding, M&A and the deals moving Edtech in India
The section records 709 corporate events over the past two years, including funding rounds, lawsuits, leadership changes, earnings releases, and mergers.
M&AEdtech giant UpGrad is set to acquire rival platform Unacademy in an all-stock deal.2026-05-05
M&AUpGrad has also acquired Internshala in an all-stock deal valuing the internship and job-search platform at ₹80 crore.2026-05-05
M&AEmversity, a Bengaluru-based higher-education embedded training and employability platform, has acquired Lanstitut Technologies, a healthcare mobility startup that trains Indian nurses in German language skills and places them in hospitals across Germany.2026-04-23
IPOThe Mumbai-based start-up is preparing for an initial public offering of around ₹1,000 crore in FY27 and plans to file its draft red herring prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Board of India in the third quarter.2026-04-20
FundingSignature Global Ltd. one of India’s leading real estate development companies, today announced that it has successfully secured an investment of ₹1,293 crore from RMZ group.2026-04-01
IPONoPaperForms, a SaaS-based enrolment automation platform backed by Infoedge, also received SEBI's clearance after filing its papers through the confidential route, though the issue size has not been disclosed.2026-03-27
FundingNewron ended FY25 with gross cash and cash equivalents of €28.9m, which was bolstered post‑period with the €38m equity raise (€15m received to date and a further €11m committed by November 2026).2026-03-26
FundingThrough 2025, the technology investor deployed $675 million in companies such as Urban Company, PayU, Rapido, Ixigo, Wiom, Deccan AI, CodeKarma, and Arivihan.2026-03-26
FundingNursing exam preparation startup Nprep raised $1.5 million in a Seed round.2026-03-15
M&Aas a second step, amalgamation of SEIL with the Company in consideration of issuance of shares by GEPL to shareholders of SEIL determined by an independent share exchange valuation2026-03-02
Mergers and acquisitions
Deals from the last 24 months where a Edtech company in India was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.
Founder-Educomp Solutions, Learning Leadership Foundation, Ex- Founder Education Quality Foundation of India. IIM A 1988
Where the founders studied
alma mater on record for 890 of 6,036 founders
IIT Delhi130
IIT Bombay100
BITS Pilani71
IIT Kharagpur65
IIT Kanpur63
IIT Madras52
Indian School of Business52
IIM Ahmedabad48
Where they worked before
a previous employer on record for 203 of 6,036 founders
Microsoft53
Amazon30
Google29
McKinsey16
Cisco15
Goldman Sachs13
Boston Consulting Group11
Morgan Stanley10
Founders flagged as repeat founders
of 5,437 founders with a profile on this page
77
carry a repeat-founder flag
flagged as repeat founders77
no repeat-founder flag5,360
Women and men among the founders
first names matched for 4,887 of 6,036 founders
16%
of matched founders are women
women796
men4,091
Inferred from first names, using 119 million people who state their own gender: a first name counts only where at least 20 of them share it and at least 90% of those share the same gender. The other 1,149 founders go in neither column.
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Three recurring angles in India Edtech coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).
Regulatory Risk ▲ rising
59,249 articles touch this dimension · 65.9% critical tone
20212025
signals: ai regulation compliance, responsible ai, ai research
Funding Momentum → flat
13,390 articles touch this dimension · 60.0% critical tone
20212025
signals: funding announcement, neural network ventures, ai infrastructure financing
Growth ▲ rising
30,066 articles touch this dimension · 48.8% critical tone
20212025
signals: 5g rollout, business smartphone, ai research
Edtech jobs in India: who is hiring and what they ask for
4,119postings · last 12 months
5,602postings tracked overall
829employers advertising
$7kmedian advertised salary/yr (n=1001)
Demand
The Skills Employers Ask For
What Edtech employers in India put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.
sales460▲
python418▲
communication339▲
communication skills323▲
sql269▲
lead generation264▲
business development246▲
java224▲
javascript223▲
excel219▲
What level are these roles?
Entry161
Intern478
Senior605
Lead335
Manager822
What they pay, by level
Manager$9k/yr (n=128)
Senior$15k/yr (n=131)
Intern$252/yr (n=69)
Lead$15k/yr (n=66)
Entry$6k/yr (n=37)
Most advertised titles
Business Development Executive91
Business Development Associate67
Content Writer54
Digital Marketing Intern43
Sales Manager40
Academic Counselor37
117 internships were advertised in the last 12 months, across 60 of these companies.
What Edtech research in India is working on
The section reports 2,453 research papers from Indian institutions, categorizing them into identified problems, cautions, and opportunities.
How this field talks about itself
India-affiliated Edtech papers (gold) against all published research (grey)
Shivangi Dhawan · Mohammed Arshad Khan · Vivek Vivek · Mohammed Kamalun Nabi · Maysoon Khojah · Muhammad Tahir · Monika Hooda · Chhavi Rana
The most-cited breakthroughs
Metaverse: A Potential Virtual-Physical Ecosystem for Innovative Blended Education and Training · 71 cites
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM · 20 cites
Deep Learning-Enabled Human Resource Analytics in Predicting Employee Performance · 18 cites
LSTM-SHAP based academic performance prediction for disabled learners in virtual learning environments: a statistical analysis approach · 15 cites
Holistic Education Redefined: Integrating STEM with Arts, Environment, Spirituality, and Sports through the Seven-Factor/Saptha-Mukhi Student Developm · 13 cites
Common problems researchers identify302 papers · 6 recurring themes
Problems · theme 01
Barriers to ICT Integration
65 papers · 21.5% of this block
▲ +3% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Researchers highlight institutional and teacher challenges that hinder effective use of information and communications technology in schools.
Information and Communications Technology · Information technology · Technology integration · Educational technology
“Enhancing ICT Integration: Addressing Teachers’ Perspectives and Institutional Challenges in Schools”
65 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 02
Digital Learning Inequities
62 papers · 20.5% of this block
▲ +171% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Papers discuss gaps and obstacles in delivering transformative and lifelong digital learning experiences across Indian education.
Digital learning · Digital transformation · Transformative learning · Lifelong learning
“Transforming Education in the Digital Era: Innovation, Equity, and Global Perspectives”
62 of these papers raise it as a problem
Problems · theme 03
Curriculum‑AI Alignment Issues
53 papers · 17.5% of this block
▲ +7% share2022→2025 share of research on this subject
Studies examine mismatches between curriculum design, generative grammar concepts, and emerging artificial‑intelligence applications.
About this data: built from Fliar's company, founder, funding, hiring, jobs, news and research trackers, covering India. Counts are of companies we track, not of every company that exists. Updated August 2026.
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