Edtech startup Doubtnut has extended its ESOP pool by adding almost 293 new value alternatives. With this, Doubtnut has joined any semblance of Aye Finance, Lendingkart, Oyo, Byju’s, Pine Labs and ShareChat who have likewise expand their ESOPs pool as of late.

Doubtnut has passed an uncommon goal to change its present ESOP plan and increment the size of the ESOP pool by 293 alternatives, administrative filings show. The Gurugram-based startup’s complete ESOP pool is currently worth Rs 27.3 crore.

The expansion of new alternatives has come when Doubtnut is in the market to raise Series B round as its securing chats with Byju’s had self-destructed over valuation. Byju’s had proposed to get Doubtnut in the scope of $130 million yet it decreased the valuation by $40 million to $80-90 million in the last offer.

Since its entrance in the primary accomplice of Sequoia’s quickening agent program Surge, Doubtnut had figured out how proportional rapidly. Notwithstanding, the organization didn’t develop as much as its friends in 2020: Byju’s Unacademy and Vedantu. While the last three figured out how to raise consecutive adjusts, Doubutnut raised just $15 million this year. Tencent drove its Series A round though Sequoia Capital, Omidyar Network and Waterbridge Ventures were Doubtnut’s initial sponsor.

Established by Tanushree Nagori and Aditya Shankar, Doubtnut offers free video answers for clients who send screen captures of their inquiries on the stage. The three-year-old startup’s target fans is the K12 section and furthermore serious test searchers including JEE and NEET.

The pattern of growing ESOPs pool by Indian new companies has expanded multifold in the previous two-three years. As indicated by Fintrackr’s information, more than two dozen organizations have either dispensed, repurchased, extended or presented ESOP plans in 2020. The rundown incorporates Paytm, Swiggy, Unacademy, Oyo, Zomato, Byju’s, Pine Labs, ShareChat, Shuttl, Fleetx and Jodo.