Quiz based edtech platform Genius Teacher announced on Monday that it has raised $2 million in angel funding from Whiteboard Capital, VKG Ventures and a clutch of other angel investors.

The company’s newest backers include Abhijit Bose (WhatsApp CEO, India), Kunal Shah (CEO, CRED), Sandeep Tandon (Co-founder, Freecharge), Dhruv Agarwal (CEO, Proptiger), Justin Sway (CEO, MMOne Online), Dan Lapus (Co-Founder, Cvent), Nimish Kampani (President, Let's Venture), Gaurav Gupta (ex-VP, Snapdeal), Bikram Bedi (ex-MD AWS India) and Farooq Adam (Co-Founder, Fynd).

Founded by ex- housing.com co-founder Advitiya Sharma, Genius Teacher creates engaging educational content for K-10, delivers a fun learning experience to the students and provides real-time insights to the teachers. Based in Mumbai, the company promotes learning through a quizzing format and focuses more on english, science and math.

“Genius Teacher is all about transforming boring education to a learning adventure. We have a big vision to be the best quiz-based learning platform loved by millions of children in K-12. We will utilise our $2 million funds raised to create products for teachers and grow fast to million-plus students in the next 12 months," said Founder and CEO Advitiya Sharma.

Founded in 2016, Genius Teacher’s platform is utilized by over 100-plus schools, 2,000+ teachers, 70,000+ paid students. It currently supports more than 10 curriculums including ICSE, CBSE, IGSCE, IB among various others.

“Genius Learning app has used AI and ML to deliver tailor-made educational content based on each student’s individual interest, personalising it on demand along with gamifying it to increase engagement levels. This entire proposition and the team behind it has made Genius a very unique player in the space of edtech,” added Anuj Khetan, Director VKG Ventures LLP.