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Vedantu: An Online Learning Platform Created by IITians for Changing Education System

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We have noticed significant changes in many things throughout the 21st century and so, in the Education system. In fact, it is a need of the present era to change the way of education with a changing world. Also, 21st-century schools need an education system that maintains and cultivate the interest of students. It is the need to show them how to apply knowledge in the real world. Here comes the role of the ed-tech industry. Vedantu is a well-known ed-tech startup. It is set up by four entrepreneurs & IIT Students.

Vedantu- An Ultimate Ed-tech platform

It is an online platform dedicated to live coaching. Basically, it offers live coaching classes for 6 to 12 students. Also, a dedicated platform for the training of several exams like IIT foundation. In addition, online teaching sessions are available for exams like JEE, IMO NTSE, as well as many other entrance exams. To support the 21st century’s education system, it enabled online learning between pupils and educators. In fact, it uses advanced technology for an excellent experience. Also, students can select the tutors of their choice.

Backstory

In 2006, Vasmi Krishna set up Lakshya with his other three IITian friends Pulkit, Saurabh, and Anand. The main purpose of the company to train students for different tests. That time, they noticed that the Indian education system needs talented and motivated teachers. So, they create such a platform with the help of Lakshaya. In 2012, their first start-up that lately handover to MTEducare. After that, they set up another ed-tech start-up called Vedantu and launched for the public in 2014. Today, Vedantu has the vision to improve the education system with its superior online ed-tech platform. 

Founders of Vedantu

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Vamsi Krishna

He is the present CEO of Vedantu. However, he is well-known as a Tech Enthusiast, Edupreneur, and a Tutor. Before founding Vedantu, he also co-founded Lakshya with his college mates. They all have a teaching experience of over 13 years. Also, he served as a Management trainee at L&T for about one year. 

Vasmi Krishna earned his degree in B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Also, he went to St Pauls Senior Secondary School at Indore.

Pulkit Jain

He is another co-founder of well-known Ed-tech start-ups Vedantu and Lakshya. Before joining that, he served at EvalueServe until 2006. Pulkit is also an IITian who graduated from IIT Roorkee. From the beginning, he is extremely passionate about entrepreneurship. Now, he is an inspiration for many young entrepreneurs for his entrepreneurial journey. 

Anand Prakash

He has studied Pulp and Paper Technology from IIT, Roorkee. Also, he studied primary education at Delhi Public School. 

Anand also helped in the establishment of Vedantu and Lakshya. Presently, he is an account academic head at Vedantu. Earlier, he was Manager at Abhishek Industries.

Saurabh Saxena

Another milestone of Vedantu, Mr. Saurabh Saxena. He has studied Chemical engineering from IIT Roorkee. He also helped in the foundation of Vedantu in 2014. Apart from that, he co-founded many such Ed-tech start-ups. Presently, he is the founder and CEO of Uable, an ed-tech company that changed the learning experience. Also, he is the director of Ekya Schools.

Triumph of Vedantu

In 2016, Vedantu won the DNA Innovative Education Award for the Best Organization to Develop Technology for Education. Also, in the same year, it won KINSES2016 EduAwards. In addition, Vedantu was among the 100 startups by SutraHR. 

In 2015, it was the Online Education Start-up of the year. Also, the Praxis media awarded Vedantu as the ‘Most Promising and Innovative Live Online Tutoring Platform in India’. 

Current Achievements

Over the years, Vedantu trained more than 10K students. Also, it launched many scalable web products that reached millions of users. Presently, it is aiming to make the Vedantu platform more student eccentric.

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Mallika Bajaj- A Young Entrepreneur To Create Good Content

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After the advent of the digital era, the internet is crawling with millions of content creators. Digital content is a very influential source of knowledge for today’s youngsters. The young generation entrepreneur like Malika Bajaj is delving deeper into this sphere of the web to become influential and earn money as well.

Why good content?

But, there is always a fine line between creating content and creating good content. The digital content affects a lot of people and should be kinder and empathizing. This is the view of Mallika Bajaj, founder of Little Yellow Beetle. Mallika has always been intrigued by content creation. She gained a lot of experience in this field since a teenager. And, after working for many highly recognized news channels and papers, she finally created her website.

And, the main goal she wants to achieve through the website is creating kinder content. According to Mallika, most of the content on the internet is very harsh which pollutes the environment of the internet. Instead of spreading more love and kindness, the content is creating hatred among people. So, she started this beautiful initiative all by herself to make the world a better place.

About Mallika Bajaj

Mallika Bajaj had a very keen interest in media from a very young age. She also appeared on many news channels when she was a teenager. Mallika completed her bachelor’s degree from the University of Melbourne. She majored in media and communications and completed her master’s from Goldsmiths College under the University of London.

She started gaining fame from an early age. When she was sixteen, she hosted the BNP Davis Cup Tennis Tournament across Asia. She became the youngest host around the world after this and this was her first big achievement. She hostel this tournament till 2014.

While she was pursuing her bachelor’s degree she became the editor on BBC. She used to look after the current affairs and world news. In 2009, Mallika joined INX Media Pvt. Ltd and worked as the sports editor for a year. Before pursuing her master’s she worked at ABC News for some time. In November 2007, Mallika becomes the entertainment editor at Hindustan Times. She worked here for twelve long years. Currently, she is also serving as the chief marketing officer at Maxilion.

The beginning

During this time, Mallika Bajaj decided to open a new start-up. The potential Indian market for digital content gave her the zeal to built something for our country. Thus, in 2014, she founded Little Young Beetle to provide kinder content in many fields and also to help improve India’s position in this digital era.

The knowledge and experience Mallika Bajaj gained before establishing Little Yellow Beetle was more than enough to open a start-up.

The Uniqueness of Little Yellow Beetle

The scope of Little Yellow Beetle is too vast to be described. They digitalize the idea for their customers. Be it a simple idea of an application, a website or an online course, they will digitalize anything and everything for you. The content of LYB contains healthy and kind information as Mallika is inclined towards the quality of content.

The company believes in maintaining a very strong relationship with their clients. Trust is the foundation of any relationship and that’s why LYB always tends to keep their promises. They only promise to deliver as much they can. But, it always delivers more than what they promise to.

Clients

Little Young Beetle has clients both in India and abroad. They welcome any type of client with just a passion in their eyes to establish something for themselves. LYB extends its hand to any company or individual with a story to tell but with no source to preach. It brings publicity for any brand or product through the power of digital content.

Success

Throughout this span of six years, Little Yellow Beetle has become the Best Digital Media Agency in Gurgaon. Mallika has also received the award, 100 Most Powerful CMO Asia and Women Super Achiever, World CSR Summit.

Today, Mallika Bajaj runs the company along with her mother and sister, Abha Bajaj and Pallavi Bajaj. According to Mallika, she will keep on inspiring people with her strong yet kind and emphasizing content and make digital India better.

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Dharmil Sheth: Founder of Pharmeasy That Delivering The Medicine At The Doorstep of Needy Patients

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In recent years, the healthcare industry thrived noticeably to fulfill the healthcare needs of people. In fact, this industry addressed all the desires of the patient. The innovative medical devices, diagnosis systems as well as Doctors appointment’s online platform; everything is possible. But among all, E-pharmacies have been playing the most important role. PharmEasy is being one of the successful E-Pharmacy platforms that connect patients with local pharmacists. Today, it is successfully helping to deliver the medicine at the patient’s doorstep. However, it is the result of the unique idea of Dharmil Sheth and his partner Shah. Through PharmEasy, they successfully brought the health commerce industry in India. 

Dharmil Sheth- Co-founder

Dharmil Sheth is well-known for his unique start-up ideas and PharmEasy is being one of them. He is a born entrepreneur, who always wanted to bring a change in the community by making things better. And so, he did it in his way. In 2015, he set up a successful healthcare start-up called PharmEasy. The PharmEasy app ensures any patients all over India to get the original medicines from authentic pharmacists. In fact, PharmEasy is much feasible for consumers to connect with local pharmacies. So, they need not go outside for the medicines they needed.

Apart from that, he started many such a start-up to satisfy consumers; means to serve society. 

Education and Career

He attended K.J. Somaiya College of Engineering for a bachelor’s degree in Electronics engineering. After that, he completed an MBA from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. However, Dharmil began his entrepreneurial journey with 91streets. Previously, he worked with many popular brands. Currently, Dharmil handles key areas of customer experience at PharmEasy. Also, the operations and marketing divisions of the company are under his control.

Start-ups of Dharmil Sheth

Apart from PharmEasy, he started Ekagrata, 91Streets. While creating up any platform and start-up, he aimed to make things better for the community. Presently, he is one of the directors of Hobspace, an ed-tech start-up.

Ekagrata

In 2010, it is started with a vision of making a country free from poverty, corruption as well as social inequalities. So, Dharmil created a platform called Ekagrata to support quality education to ensure all-rounded development. Especially, among the underprivileged kids.

91streets

Just after his graduation, Dharmil set up a marketing platform for all types of retailers in 2014. Understanding the need for modern retailers, he started 91streets which turn out as an excellent shopping companion for modern retailers.

The backstory of PharmEasy foundation

The inspiration behind the PharmaEasy foundation was to provide easily accessible healthcare services. Also, at the same time, these services should be affordable and available to all. He noticed many start-ups provide different healthcare services in wide ranges. But there was no such platform that provides home delivery of medicines to the needy patients. 

In the end, Dharmil Sheth and his doctor friend Dhawal Shah came up with the idea to build an e-pharmacy start-up. That’s how they set up PharmEasy back in 2015 to deliver medicines online. Today, the company delivers about 98 percent of the PIN codes across India.

Current achievements of PharmEasy

Today, PharmEasy is one of the largest platforms that deliver medicines. The company has warehouses in many cities. So, consumers can expect to get their medicines delivered on the same day itself. In fact, PharmEasy administrations are available more than 700 cities and deliver a wide range of medications. It’s available in non-prescription as well as the prescription category. Also, it offers a platform to book diagnostic tests. Over the period, the company has raised a total of 328.5 million dollars.

As well, PharmEasy uses many technology products and services to assure the best service. However, the company’s app called PharmEasy has been downloaded by more than 29000 people.

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Udacity Is Unleashing The True Power of E-Learning With Moocs

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Most of the students irrespective of belonging from India or abroad prefer learning online over attending classes. Honestly, coaching classes are boring when you have to sit for hours and listen to the monotonous lectures. But, the internet has made our life easy, right? And, the MOOCs (Massive open online courses) has made our lives easier.

Everyone will agree that the academic curriculum provides us limited knowledge. What if you want to learn something new that is not in your syllabus? After all, there shouldn’t be any limit to learning. Udacity, an educational organization founded in 2012 provides online courses for students all over the world. The teaching faculties of Udacity belong to some of the top-most universities around the globe.

Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky founded this organization to spread the benefit of online education among students and every learning enthusiast.

About the founders

Sebastian went to the University of Hildesheim and studied computer science, economics, and medicine. After this, he went for his bachelor’s degree and graduated from the University of Bonn in 1993. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science and statistics. His career started in the year 1995 when he joined Carnegie Mellon University as a research computer scientist.

He worked as an assistant professor at CMU for many years and also at Stanford University from 2007 to 2011. In 2004, he became the director of SAIL. In 2011, he joined Google and founded Google X. And, in 2012 he co-founded the online private educational organization, Udacity.

David is a very brilliant programmer who graduated from Princeton University at the age of nineteen. He acquired his bachelor’s degree in computer science and completed both his master’s and Ph.D. from Stanford University. David is also very much interested in autonomous cars and he created Stanford’s autonomous car team. He became the CEO of Udacity when it was launched.

Sokolsky went to CMU and acquired his bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Computer engineering. He joined the University of Alberta as a research associate and in 2009 joined Stanford University for the SAIL autonomous driving group. He co-founded Udacity and became the CTO of the organization. He left Udacity in 2013 and joined Spire. He co-founded Artificial in 2018 and serves as an Advisor currently.

Educating the mass

Starting Udacity was a part of a small project whose outcome was shocking to Sebastian. When he taught students in his class he didn’t feel satisfied. He wanted not only to teach only 200 students paying a lucrative amount for higher education but to the entire world. So, one fine day he just started making videos and teaches the same way he does at Stanford.

He gave assignments, tests and followed every step he does with the university students. Sebastian was surprised when he found out that the students who topped the examination learned from the internet and weren’t part of Stanford. This led Sebastian to take the next step and finally to establish an organization.

Story of Udacity

Since artificial intelligence and machine learning is grasping the market in the new world, Sebastian decided to offer computer science courses in Udacity. From the basics to the most advanced level courses were made available. A couple of months after Udacity became public, 90,000 students enrolled for two different classes in this platform. Sebastian expected to hit half a million headcount shortly.

The project was growing in size which attracted few big investors like Charles River Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Initially, Sebastian funded $200,000 from his pocket but later in 2012, Udacity received a massive amount of $15 million from Horowitz. After a year, Sebastian said in an interview that his product is very disappointing. Only 5% of the total students enrolling for the courses are completing it.

This is contradictory to his aim for Udacity. And, he decided to shift his focus to the vocational courses for professionals. Udacity expanded its courses and by 2014 it had twelve full courses and, twenty-six free courseware. Within a couple of years, Udacity witnesses 1.6 million users.

Udacity’s next target is to double the headcount in India. Since India is developing exponentially in the digital space more students are expected to sign up for Nanodegree programs on Data analytics, machine learning, etc. Currently, Udacity has 11.5 million users across the world.

Chobolabs

Chobolabs: Result of Denyen & Peter’s vision to bring real-time gaming to smartphones

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Nowadays, the most preferred way of entertainment is spending time on Smartphones and tablets. Also, thousands of mobile games and applications find a way to become popular entertainment stuff. But still, hardcore gamers find it difficult to play the real games on their smartphones. In fact, smartphones support very few such competitive multiplayer games. Yet, Chobolabs noticed these things and aspire to reveal the smartphone’s hidden potential. It turns the smartphones into the tiny console in the pockets of hardcore gamers across the world. 

What is Chobolabs?

Chobolabs is a boon for gamers, who wanted their smartphone to be capable of providing real-time gaming experience. As a matter of fact, in the Korean language ‘Chobo’ means newbie or a beginner. Just as the name, Chobolabs is a pioneer in finding the ways that enhance the smartphone capability to support real-time multiplayer games. In fact, the foundation of the company is based on the belief that true mobile gamers deserve great hardcore games. An entrepreneur Petar Dobrev and Deyan Vitanov established it in 2012. Today, it is working successfully to bring competitive gaming to smartphones.

Presently, Chobolabs has successfully brought the Esports to mobile. Also, it is working hard to bring the real-gaming experience to smartphones. In fact, the company achieved it at some level. But it has been never easy for founders to convert their unique idea into reality. 

The backstory of Chobolabs foundation

It gets started, when their previous start-up had acquired. So, they began to explore what to do next. That time, eSports were so popular that have completely dominated the consoles and Pcs. However, both Peter and Deyan were programmers first. Also, both are growing up playing competitive games like Counter-Strike, but on computers. As a gamer, they were always searching for such games on mobile phones. In fact, they find several such games. But these games were just a lame copy that wasn’t working on smartphones at all. Being a programmer, they found, it is failed due to the wrong design combination and other technical factors. 

Yet, Peter and Deyan both were knowing that mobiles are capable to do so. Thus, they established Chobolabs to bring such gaming experience on mobile phones. 

Deyan Vitanov- Co-Founder and CEO

Deyan Vitanov is a programmer and entrepreneur, who Co-Founded several start-ups. Includes, Philanthropedia CPP-Home, and Chobolabs. Presently, he is the CEO of a mobile esports company called Chobolabs. 

Early Life

Deyan was born and brought up in Bourgas, Bulgaria. At the age of 9, his father brought a computer for him. Since then he falls in love with programming. Soon, he learned several programming languages proficiently. Like, Pascal, C, C++, etc. Also, he won several national-level programming competitions.

During his high school, Deyan co-founded his first internet company, CPP-Home in 2001. It was the C++ learning hub. 

Education and career

He attended Jacobs University Bremen for his bachelor’s degree in integrated social science. That time, he won the German Academic Exchange service award for his excellent performance in college. After that, he completed an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2008, he co-founded Philanthropedia, which is acquired by GuideStar in 2011.

Peter Dobrev- Co-founder of Chobolabs

In 2012, Peter Dobrev successfully co-founded Chobolabs with Deyan Vitanov. Also, he served proudly as a founding engineer at Philanthropedia. Apart from that, he is the most versatile and skilled ethical hacker. 

He went to Jacobs University, Bremen for his graduation as well as a master’s degree in computer science. During his master’s program, he worked as a research assistant on point-based graphics and multi-variate visualization. Also, he was an intern at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Where he assisted in the research and development of an algorithm to estimate height fields from normal maps. 

Presently, he is working on Chobolabs.

Bottom Line

Chobolabs is working continuously under the Deyan and Peter’s guidance. So that, it can enable eSports for gamers on all types of smartphones. Presently, it’s one of the franchises, Mayhem is working successfully. It has 1 Million plus downloads and 4.5-star ratings on average. Also, it has been featured by Google, Apple, TwitchCon and many others.

ION Energy

Akhil Aryan: Founder of ION Energy who is helping to boost the sustainability of clean energy

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Presently, electrical devices are used everywhere. If you visit any place, you can see half of the place is decorated with electrical devices. Additionally, the Indian government is focusing on promoting the use of electric vehicles all over India by 2030. Electric devices like Electric vehicles are shaping the future. However, the functionality of these devices is depending upon the battery. We can say that the battery is the heart of any electrical device. Therefore, battery management is most important for its better functionality. ION Energy is a well-known platform for advanced battery management for powering energy storage systems. Especially, electric vehicles. Also, it focused on technology that is essential to improve the performance and life of lithium-ion batteries. However, ION Energy is the culmination of Akhil Aryan’s childhood fascination with electrons as well as energy. 

What is ION Energy? 

ION Energy is an energy management company. Especially, it focused on electric battery management. Also, work on technologies that help to increase the life of lithium-ion batteries. In fact, ION energy provides the complete tool kit to build and manage world-class batteries. However, its main purpose is to provide high-performance batteries all over the world. Indirectly enabling electrical mobility and boosting the sustainability of clean energy.

Recently, the company launched UDYR. It’s their flagship battery that is built around Electro-Mechanical assembly and their proprietary BMS. 

The backstory of ION Energy foundation

Since childhood, Akhil Aryan is very fascinated by electrons and energy. He is always curious about the fact that everything we can see or not is made up of atoms. Also, he was well-known to the fact that electric energy is the future. However, the Indian government was promoting the use of Electrical vehicles all over the country. So, it was a great opportunity to set up a business in this field. But he realized that rather than developing electric vehicles, it is important to make them sustainable and efficient. As a result, he set up an energy management company called ION Energy in 2017. 

Akhil Aryan is a well-known serial entrepreneur. Because he successfully handled the establishment of miscellaneous companies across three continents. He founded ION Energy back in 2017 with the vision of eco-friendly energy management. 

Early Life

Akhil Aryan- ION Energy founder

Akhil Aryan is Born and brought up in Mumbai. In fact, he spent most of the time at a young age amongst Mumbai’s ambitious hustlers. During the teenage, he was one of the children that could not remain idle for a minute. He was fascinated with technical stuff. In mid of the 90s, his father brought a computer for him. So, it was the golden opportunity that helped his curious mind to learn technology. After a very short time, he built production software. At that time, Akhil was just 14 years old. He earned a degree in financial markets from Mumbai University. 

Career

At the age of 16, he did an internship at L Nagpal Developers. During the internship, he helped to generate one-million-dollar sales with his innovative idea. After that, he wanted to work at IGSL. This company was well-known for its advisory and trading services in cash. Also, derivatives equity & debt market, commodities as well as currency futures. However, his mother felt that he should complete his education first. Thus, to work with IGSL, Akhil had to promise his mother that he will complete his graduation. Akhil represented during the company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO). In fact, its IPO was oversubscribed 4.5 times. 

Other start-ups of Akhil Aryan

Akhil is the successful founder of several miscellaneous companies across the world. In fact, he co-founded the first company at the age of 18. Presently, he is handling many businesses successfully. Other than ION energy, he actively runs his other start-ups in various fields. Includes, technical training, finance as well as software developments.  

ION Education

It is an education space technology company. Akhil co-founded the company in 2010 with the help of Shanay Shah. In fact, it is the first interactive training institute in India that provides training in the Financial market and real-estate. Also, ION education promotes entrepreneurship as well as provide training. At starting, the company successfully trains more than 1300 students in one year. In addition, Ion education helps students to get industrial exposure by means of an internship.  

OneShop

In 2013, he started working on OneShop. OneShop provides a platform to add store to blogs or websites. It is started in San Francisco. But after the company won a SIRIUS program, it shifted to London. However, it helped Aryan to set his network in Europe.

Haptik

In 2015, Akhil returned to his motherland India. That time, he was consulting with some of the start-ups related to the ecosystem. He realized, conversational AI has scope in the future. As a result, he co-founded Haptik to provide a service of conversational AI. Today, it is the largest conversational AI platform in the world. Presently, it handles more than 3 million AI conversations per month.