AdmitKard, an ed-tech platform that streamlines accessing advanced education abroad raised Rs 10 crore in pre-Series A round. The round saw participation from the originators of prestigious ed-tech start-up-like – Vamsi Krishna and Pulkit Jain of Vedantu, Mayank Kumar of upGrad, Gaurav Munjal, Roman Saini and Sumit Jain of Unacademy, Tanushree Nagori, Aditya Shankar and Ravi Sekhar of DoubtNut, Akshay Saxena of Avanti, and other noticeable financial backers including Pankaj Chaddah (ex-Zomato), Suhail Sameer and Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl of BharatPe,Vijay Arisetty (MyGate), Anand Chandrasekaran (ex-Snapdeal, Facebook), Sameer Guglani of Morpheus Gang, BCG Partners, MD of JPMorgan and others.

The pandemic certainly wreaked havoc on the start-up industry, be that as it may, ed-tech has been one of the areas to observe development in traction.

“During the pandemic, we realized that understudies couldn’t travel abroad because of the shut international lines. Henceforth we multiplied down our work on guaranteeing the understudies’ involvement with our since a long time ago drawn channel improves. To enable that we realized the guidance to the understudies’ should be item determined instead of being reliant upon humans. We looked for guidance from our mentors from other ed-tech companies and de-gifted the whole advising measure, taking care of a major issue of advisors in this industry,” said Rachit Agrawal – fellow benefactor, AdmitKard.

Counting the current round, the startup has raised a total of Rs 17 crore. It’s anything but a solid local area of international understudies and understudies hoping to concentrate abroad. They have already served understudies from 26 states in India through their platform and have also served not many understudies from other nations like Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Vietnam. The company is scaling at a fast pace, having guided more than 25,000 understudies, handling around 12,000 applications, and boasting a solid arrangement of more than 2,300 colleges across the globe.

“I have been a mentor to Rachit and Piyush for quite a while presently and have seen the excursion of AdmitKard. Their attention on productizing understudy guidance and de-skilling the job of an advisor is a major success as it tackles a fundamental issue of talent quality and standardization at scale. I’m happy to be a part of their development venture” said Vamsi Krishna – prime supporter, Vedantu.

According to the organizers, AdmitKard has seen a 1100 percent climb in the quantity of questions pouring in. The company has contacted an annual income runrate of $2 million in the period of June 2021, and is on track to hit ARR of $8 million by March 2022. “We have seen spectacular development and credit to our automation, we had the option to handle them well. Presently the attention is on development and henceforth we would be raising a greater round. This is more similar to a mentors and well-wishers round. We are fortunate to have credible names from ed-tech area itself and other marquee angels backing us today,” said Piyush Bhartiya-organizer and CEO, AdmitKard.

“AdmitKard has picked the right category that has been waiting to be upset and addressing it with great assistance, opening desired value for understudies. The team is very much placed to upset the space which is unorganized and dominated by offline players with a great PMF and solid plans to scale and henceforth have chosen to back it” said Ravi Shekhar KV, fellow benefactor, DoubtNut

“As someone who has concentrated abroad extensively and understands the challenges one faces from finding the right program to arriving on campus, I am amped up for what AdmitKard is building. Their item first approach to democratizing access to global education is what our childhood need today” said Dhruv Dhanraj Bahl – COO, BharatPe.