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India’s higher education startup Sunstone raises $35 million – TechCrunch

admin Published August 19, 2022
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Sunstone, a higher education startup that collaborates with academic institutions to help upskill their students for employability, has raised $35 million in a new financing round as it looks to expand to more Indian cities.

Sunstone founders said Friday WestBridge Capital led the startup’s Series C financing round. Alteria Capital also participated in the funding, which takes its to-date raise to about $68 million.

There are thousands of management colleges and institutions in India, but other than those at the top of the charts, most are unable to attract enough students. Their curriculums are also typically outdated and they struggle in getting their students land jobs.

Founded in 2019, Sunstone is addressing these challenges by offering students a wide-range of additional courses and helping them with securing jobs, its co-founder Piyush Nangru told TechCrunch in an interview.

“The colleges are operating at 40% occupancy. It’s equivalent to perishable inventory for them, because of which they are unable to amass resources and hence the quality of education suffers,” he said. “We partner with these institutions to offer upskilling and soft-skill courses as well as campus-life programs for students so that their quality of education improves.”

As part of the partnerships, institutes continue to offer hundreds of hours of “foundational” classes to students. “Take MBA, for example. It’s a 900 hours program, which covers key subjects like accounting, marketing and finance. The curriculum is outdated, so we plug our own 600 hours modules — half of which is focused on soft-skills, and rest on industry-ready skills — on top of this,” he explained.

The startup currently offers its services to undergraduate and postgraduate students at over 40 institutions across nearly three dozen Indian cities.

“The Indian higher education system is at the brink of a long overdue transformation,” said Ashish Munjal, Sunstone’s co-founder and chief executive. “Sunstone is well positioned to enable this change and impact the lives of millions of students. Over the years, we have made significant strides in the direction but still have a long way to go as the market opportunity and problem we’re trying to solve for, is very large.”

The startup currently focuses on management colleges, but it’s beginning to expand to engineering and other tech verticals, the founders said.

This is a developing story. More to follow…

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