Ed-tech startup FrontRow raises $14 million in funding led by Eight Roads Ventures
FrontRow, a learning platform for non-academic skills, has raised $14 million funding led by Eight Roads Ventures and GSV with participation from existing investors Elevation Capital and Lightspeed. Angels like Raftaar, Gaurav Munjal, Vishal Dadlani, Kunal Shah, Farid Ahsan and multiple leaders across the startup and entertainment world participated in the funding round.
The company aims to utilise the funds to expand to over 10 categories and 300 courses over the next year. Ishaan Singh, co-founder, FrontRow said they’ll be investing heavily on team and product, “The next decade will see new paradigms of learning, built online first, and better than offline! For this, we’re building a new model of community and cohort led learning that is a fundamental evolution of ed-tech.”
Aditya Systla, Partner, Eight Roads Ventures said, “As investors we’ve been a big champion of the role technology will play in disrupting multiple sectors, including education. We believe the market is highly under-served with strong secular trends in digital adoption of non-academic learning driven by the limited availability of qualified instructors, flexibility in scheduling and lack of access to the structured curriculum. Ishaan, Mikhil Shubhadit and the team at FrontRow have taken the ‘pursuit of passion’ digital, at a time when few others have in India. We are very excited to back one of the market-leading companies focused on non-academic learning.”
Shubhadit Sharma, Ishaan Preet Singh and Mikhil Raj founded FrontRow nine months ago. The platform provides a learning experience with lead ship courses taught by the industry committed persons such as Amit Trivedi, Neha Kakkar, DIVINE, Suresh Raina and more than 100 live courses taught by experts and influencers for learners to have good knowledge in their field.
A big differentiator for the company according to Mikhil Raj, co-founder, FrontRow is their community and cohort-based approach, “Almost 70 per cent of learning is outside the classroom and that’s the part that hasn't been solved yet. We enable people to learn from the best, and the small cohorts and community create a learning experience miles ahead of anything out there. In fact, we see over 100K+ users learn through our communities every month!”
The platform has expanded to 50,000 paid learners across over 2000 cities globally, with users spending over several hours learning on FrontRow. Earlier, it has raised a $3.2 million seed round led by Elevation, Lightspeed and Deepika Padukone’s Family Office.
The company aims to utilise the funds to expand to over 10 categories and 300 courses over the next year. Ishaan Singh, co-founder, FrontRow said they’ll be investing heavily on team and product, “The next decade will see new paradigms of learning, built online first, and better than offline! For this, we’re building a new model of community and cohort led learning that is a fundamental evolution of ed-tech.”
Aditya Systla, Partner, Eight Roads Ventures said, “As investors we’ve been a big champion of the role technology will play in disrupting multiple sectors, including education. We believe the market is highly under-served with strong secular trends in digital adoption of non-academic learning driven by the limited availability of qualified instructors, flexibility in scheduling and lack of access to the structured curriculum. Ishaan, Mikhil Shubhadit and the team at FrontRow have taken the ‘pursuit of passion’ digital, at a time when few others have in India. We are very excited to back one of the market-leading companies focused on non-academic learning.”
Shubhadit Sharma, Ishaan Preet Singh and Mikhil Raj founded FrontRow nine months ago. The platform provides a learning experience with lead ship courses taught by the industry committed persons such as Amit Trivedi, Neha Kakkar, DIVINE, Suresh Raina and more than 100 live courses taught by experts and influencers for learners to have good knowledge in their field.
A big differentiator for the company according to Mikhil Raj, co-founder, FrontRow is their community and cohort-based approach, “Almost 70 per cent of learning is outside the classroom and that’s the part that hasn't been solved yet. We enable people to learn from the best, and the small cohorts and community create a learning experience miles ahead of anything out there. In fact, we see over 100K+ users learn through our communities every month!”
The platform has expanded to 50,000 paid learners across over 2000 cities globally, with users spending over several hours learning on FrontRow. Earlier, it has raised a $3.2 million seed round led by Elevation, Lightspeed and Deepika Padukone’s Family Office.
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