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Women Led Ed-Tech startup Whiz League raises $300K in seed funding round

Aug 26, 2021 by Rekha Nair 0 Comments #Ajay Lavakare & Paula Mariwala, #co-Founder, #Co-founder of Whiz League, #co-presidents of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India, #Natasha Jain, #Sonia Agarwal Bajaj, #Whiz League

New Delhi: EdTech startup Whiz League, led by the Stanford and Babson Alumni duo, Natasha Jain and Sonia Agarwal Bajaj in partnership with Guru Randhawa raises a $300K (INR 2.2 crores) seed fund.

ITI Growth Opportunities led this seed round and members of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India, Maheshwari Investments along with other high-profile investors have participated in this round of investments.

Whiz League is an Ed-tech platform that offers celebrity driven, pre-recorded certificate courses and skill development courses for adults and children. The platform also allows learners with a once in a lifetime opportunity to potentially collaborate with these celebrities and experts in the form of 1-1 mentorship, internships, fast-tracked auditions, access to funding etc. via their Whiz Launchpad.

In addition to the senior modules, Whiz League offers celebrity junior modules that are targeted towards 6-17 years old and allow curious young minds to get unprecedented access to knowledge and inspiration from industry masters. Through these junior classes, children can get early exposure to introductory industry specific skill sets.

“ITI Growth Opportunities is proud and excited about their investment in Whiz League. We are positive about the ed-tech industry, the model, the product and most importantly the executing team to make Whiz League a flagship name in the times to come” says Mohit Gulati, Director of ITI Investments.

In addition to their lead investor, this young start -up has also received investment from members of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India. Stanford Angels has always had a keen eye in the Ed-tech space. “We are excited to back Natasha and Sonia in the Ed-tech space and believe they have the experience and skills to build Whiz League into a leading company in the celebrity driven Ed-Tech space in India” say Ajay Lavakare & Paula Mariwala, co-presidents of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India.

The platform already features multiple courses in culinary, hospitality, fashion, design and performing arts. Some of the masters featured on the platform include Guru Randhawa, Ranveer Brar, Rocky Star, Priyank Sukhija, Mukesh Chhabra, Jayesh Sachdev and Sonaakshi Raaj. The Whiz League platform has seen aggressive growth in terms of users, content, and engagement since its launch in April this year.

“With over 30,000 users in less than four months, we are elated with our performance so far and are all set to take the Ed-tech industry by storm. Our vision is to create one of the largest learning platforms for celebrity driven courses and skill-based courses focusing on new age professions where a major gap exists.” shares Natasha Jain, Co-founder of Whiz League.

Speaking about the investments and future plans Sonia Agarwal Bajaj, Co-founder, Whiz League concludes, “We are truly excited to associate with investors who believe in our company’s vision and the team’s ability to scale our initial success. The raised capital will be largely channelized towards content creation, customer acquisition, addition of skill development courses and to enhance user engagement.”

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Guru Randhawa partners with Whiz League, to revolutionize the future of learning

Apr 20, 2021 by Neel Achary 0 Comments #EdTech start up, #Guru Randhawa, #Whiz League

New Delhi: In an effort to create equal opportunities and inspire more people to turn their passions into professions, Guru Randhawa joined Whiz League, as a strategic partner. Whiz League is a learning EdTech start up that offers pre-recorded courses by industry experts and leading new age professions. These courses share invaluable insights, techniques, strategies, and compress decades of learning into short, HD video modules.

Launched on 13th April 2021, the platform operates the courses via its own Whiz League app & website (www.whizleague.com). Following its tagline, “A Genius Way of Learning”, the main concept of the platform is to focus on making practical industry learning and workings more accessible to all.

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Co-Founded by Natasha Jain and Sonia A Bajaj, Whiz League is the brainchild of a duo of power-packed women entrepreneurs who have envisioned education to be based on real world learning that is self-paced and affordable for all. “We had noticed a gap between the skillset and knowledge base between aspiring professionals and established industry experts and wanted to create a platform that provided affordable access to priceless insights from such industry experts” says Sonia A Bajaj.

The platform currently includes courses in the field of hospitality, culinary, films and music featuring master-chef Ranveer Brar, king of Bollywood casting Mukesh Chhabra, ace restaurateur Priyank Sukhija, and the legendary Guru Randhawa himself.

“In addition to just being a learning platform, we wanted to give people an opportunity to boost their career by presenting them with a golden opportunity to collaborate with experts via Whiz Launchpad”, adds Natasha Jain. Whiz Launchpad is a unique opportunity that allows users to submit an assignment from which the best assignment gets the exceptional chance to collaborate with an industry expert. The nature of these collaborations could include 1-1 mentorship, funding, paid work assignments, fast-tracked auditions, and more.

In addition to being a Whiz Expert, Guru Randhawa plays a critical leadership role in the organization. Excited about the venture he says, “Whiz League is here to revolutionize learning and make many dreams come true.”