Indian Edtech Firms Bolster Plans to Expand in US – Nikkei

Indian educational technology companies, popularly known as ‘edtech’, have built up a war chest over the past few years and are looking to expand their global footprint, especially in the US, while keeping their costs on a tight leash by running operations from India, Nikkei Asia reported.

Education startups, including Scaler, Byju’s, Emeritus and Simplilearn, attracted $8.5 billion in investments during 2014-2021, with almost half of that last year, the report said, citing figures from data firm Tracxn.

Read the full report: Nikkei Asia.

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Jim Pollard is an Australian journalist based in Thailand since 1999. He worked for News Ltd papers in Sydney, Perth, London and Melbourne before travelling through SE Asia in the late 90s. He was a senior editor at The Nation for 17+ years and has a family in Bangkok.

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