Indian edtech big Byju’s raises $250 million in recent funding • TechCrunch

Byju’s mentioned it has raised $250 million in new funding from present backers because the Indian edtech big seems to be to navigate the market downturn that has pressured the agency to postpone the preliminary public providing.

The brand new funding valued the Bengaluru-headquartered startup at $22 billion, the identical determine at which it raised a financing spherical in March this yr, an individual accustomed to the matter mentioned.

The corporate declined to touch upon the valuation and didn’t disclose the names of the buyers. Byju Raveendran, founder and chief government of Byju’s, informed TechCrunch in an earlier interview that the startup was partaking with present sovereign funds to place collectively a brand new spherical.

“Byju’s is now at that candy spot of its development story the place the unit economics and the economies of scale each are in its favour,” he mentioned in an announcement right this moment.

“This implies the capital that we now spend money on our enterprise will end in worthwhile development and create sustainable social affect. Whatever the adversarial macroeconomic situations, 2022-23 is ready to be our greatest yr by way of income, development and profitability. Continued help from our esteemed buyers re-affirms the affect created by us to this point, and validates our path to profitability.”

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