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Ed-tech start-up WhiteHat Jr raises $10mn in Series A
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SME Times News Bureau | 10 Sep, 2019
Bengaluru-based ed-tech start-up WhiteHat Jr on Tuesday announced
raising $10 million funding in Series A from existing investors Nexus
Venture Partners and Omidyar Network India.
Owl Ventures, a
Silicon Valley-based ed-tech focused venture capital fund, also joined
in backing the start-up founded by Karan Bajaj, former Discovery
Networks CEO and bestselling novelist.
White Hat Jr helps kids aged 6 to 14 build commercial-ready games, animations and apps online using the fundamentals of coding.
The
company, started in November 2018, had earlier raised $1.3 million in
seed funding from Nexus Venture Partners and Omidyar Network India.
"Our
mission is to harness the natural creativity of kids and shift their
mindset from an early age - from being consumers to creators of
technology," Bajaj, who is the CEO of WhiteHat Jr, said.
"It's
been heartening to see the projects of kids in the first 6 months of
launch as they're creating immensely creative, high utility digital
applications that are bound to have long-term impact," he said.
White
Hat Jr has developed their own original coding curriculum, which is
centred on product creation, and imparts their lessons via 1:1 live,
interactive online classes.
The new funds will be used to
strengthen their technology platform, expand the course curriculum as
well as increase consumer awareness, WhiteHat Jr.
WhiteHat Jr
currently offers four levels of courses - beginner, intermediate,
advanced and professional - for students in grades 1-9.
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