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Subjects schools have not done well — done well.
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She was running a federation of 106 women’s cooperatives when she decided the larger lever was what happens to a child before the age of six. Rocket Learning now works through 400,000 government anganwadi educators across 16 states.
She was inside Lehman Brothers before it went under. Thirteen years later, the profitable little skilling company she built with a fellow Lehman alum is buying colleges abroad and preparing to list, while the edtech giants that raised billions around it are gone.
Millions finish degrees every year and a large share are judged unready for the jobs they trained for. Careerpedia works in that gap, with project-based training and employers attached at the other end.
She left an AVP seat at Swiggy to teach children music and public speaking over video calls. When Indian edtech imploded, Spark Studio had raised barely $1.9 million, stayed lean, and lived to become an AI company.
She co-founded LEAD in 2012 to make excellent learning ordinary in India’s affordable private schools. A decade later it became the country’s School Learning System unicorn.
She left a finance career to build Embibe around personalised, data-driven learning, a thesis that attracted a majority investment from Reliance Industries.
A 2012 graduation project at NID Ahmedabad’s New Media Design programme became Menstrupedia, the colourful, classroom-friendly comic book that demystifies menstruation for schoolgirls in India and beyond.
She could have left for graduate school abroad. She stayed to teach, and co-built BYJU’S into, for a while, the most valuable startup India had ever produced.
Subjects schools have not done well — done well.
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