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Doubtnut Acquired

Gurugram, Haryana Founded 2016 doubtnut.com ↗

A learning app that helps students solve math and science problems by taking photos of them — a student photographs a problem and gets a short video explaining the solution, in local languages, aimed at students in classes 6-12 and IIT JEE/NEET aspirants.

Aditya Shankar · Co-Founder & CEO Tanushree Nagori · Co-Founder Sonia Sinha · Co-Founder (former) Ravi Sekhar KV · Co-Founder
$52.34 MnTotal funding (tracked)
5Funding rounds
10 Apr 2023Last round

Doubtnut: Funding Rounds

Date Round Amount Investors Source
10 Apr 2023 Convertible Note $2.5 Mn (₹20 Cr) Omidyar Network India Sequoia Capital India WaterBridge Ventures source
25 Feb 2021 Series B $31 Mn Lupa Systems SIG Omidyar Network India Sequoia Capital India WaterBridge Ventures source
31 Jan 2020 Series A $15 Mn Tencent Akatsuki Inc Ankit Nagori Omidyar Network India Sequoia Capital India source
23 Apr 2019 Pre-Series A $3.3 Mn (₹23 Cr) Sequoia Capital India Akatsuki Inc Omidyar Network WaterBridge Ventures source
13 Mar 2018 Pre-Series A ₹3.5 Cr WaterBridge Ventures Omidyar Network source

Acquisitions

DateAcquirerAcquiredAmountSource
4 Dec 2023 Allen Career Institute Doubtnut Undisclosed source

Recent Signals

  • 10 Apr 2023 · financial
    Doubtnut cut monthly burn 80% and raised $2.5M internal round, targeted FY24 profitability source
  • 1 Jan 2020 · ma-strategic
    Byju's attempted $150M acquisition of Doubtnut in 2020, deal never closed source

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FAQs on Doubtnut

Who founded Doubtnut?

Doubtnut was founded by Aditya Shankar, Tanushree Nagori, Sonia Sinha, Ravi Sekhar KV in 2016.

How much funding has Doubtnut raised?

Doubtnut has raised $52.34 Mn across 5 tracked funding round(s), most recently on 2023-04-10. Figures are compiled from cited public sources.

Who are the investors in Doubtnut?

Investors in Doubtnut include Omidyar Network India, Sequoia Capital India, WaterBridge Ventures, Lupa Systems, SIG, Tencent, Akatsuki Inc, Ankit Nagori.

What does Doubtnut do?

A learning app that helps students solve math and science problems by taking photos of them — a student photographs a problem and gets a short video explaining the solution, in local languages, aimed at students in classes 6-12 and IIT JEE/NEET aspirants.

Where is Doubtnut headquartered?

Doubtnut is headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, India.

What is Doubtnut's business model?

Doubtnut's core value proposition centers on Photo-to-video instant doubt solving, Multilingual / vernacular-language explanations, ML-driven image recognition.

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