Founded in 2019 by Abhinav Agarwal and Anand Bakode, Swiflearn is an online platform for academic courses, providing personalized home tutoring experience to students of grades 1-10 across CBSE and ICSE boards.
The platform offers online tutoring classes for English, Mathematics and Science as well as other areas of learning such as Mental Ability, Life Skills and Vedic Mathematics.
“SwifLearn is building a high impact personalized and scalable learning product that will transform the way students learn. Innovative, Anand and the team have developed a great product that is seeing tremendous traction.
Gaurav Munjal, CEO and Co-Founder, Unacademy Group, said, “We have a shared vision to make quality education accessible and affordable to students of all ages, and we are delighted to have them as part of the Unacademy Group. ”
Unacademy was founded in 2015 by Gaurav Munjal, Hemesh Singh and Roman Saini. Unacademy, started as a YouTube channel by Munjal in 2010, has grown its network to over 60,000 registered teachers and over 62 million learners. Unacademy Group includes Unacademy, Graphy, Relevel and CodeChef.
“We are very excited to join Unacademy, as our strengths of pedagogy, content and personalized classrooms combined with Unacademy’s product, brand and reach will make it a strong value proposition in the K-12 market. Anand, Me, and The team at Swiflearn is looking forward to working closely with and learning from the entire team at Unacademy,” said Abhinav Agarwal, Co-Founder, Swiflearn.
Swiflearn currently has over 1,500 teachers. The platform hosts over 30,000 classes every month and has over 1.2 lakh registered learners.
The edtech space has seen strong growth globally, including in India, with the COVID-19 pandemic acting as an inflection point. Several offline classes went online to ensure continuity of education while adhering to social distancing norms.
Unacademy rival, Byju’s is rapidly expanding its operations with an aggressive acquisition strategy. The startup, which is estimated to have raised over USD 1.8 billion since the start of the pandemic, acquired Aakash Educational Services Ltd earlier this year for around USD 1 billion. It has also bought Great Learning and US-based Epic.