👉 Former Twitter India CEO Manish Maheshwari and Tanay Pratap, a former senior software engineer at Microsoft, recently launched Invact Metaversity (@invactHQ), offering an immersive campus experience to students.
@manishm: During COVID times, we saw how students suffered when everything moved online. Most of them could not go to college. They missed classes and good placement opportunities.
You have launched Meta MBA on Metversity. What’s the plan? Is it going to be limited to higher education only?
@manishm: Yes, a marketplace embedded with the layers of community and social experiences.
➡️Don’t you think this could be easily replicated? While the Indian government has already announced plans to launch a digital university, edtech startups like BYJU’s and Unacademy too may come up with similar offerings later?
.@xto10x has raised $25 Mn in its Series A round led by its cofounder @binnybansal and 28 founders and senior leaders from the startup ecosystem in India and Southeast Asia. inc42.com/buzz/binny-ban…
2/ The funds will be used to ramp up its learning programs, software tools and operating capabilities.
While VC/PE firms’ investment ideally comes into the picture when startups meet certain criteria.;
It is the #angelinvestors who support the startup founders in meeting the operational expenses during the formation years. 💸