SuperProfs.com raises $3M Series A from Kalaari Capital and IDG Ventures
The platform brings classrooms of Indias Best Professors for competitive exams online, for
anytime, anywhere access by students
Bengaluru, December 30, 2014: Bengaluru-based SuperProfs.com, a product of Aurus Network, has raised $3
Million from venture capital firms Kalaari Capital and IDG Ventures India. This round of funding will be used for
scaling up its product offerings to other competitive exams and speed expansion into newer markets across
India. Currently SuperProfs.com offers online courses for competitive exams like CA, CS, CMA and GATE.
Aurus Network was founded by IIT Kanpur graduates Piyush Agrawal and Sujeet Kumar in 2010. The company
had earlier raised an angel round of funding from Indian Angel Network which includes Ajai Chowdhry, cofounder of HCL Infosystems and Sharad Sharma, Former CEO, Yahoo India R & D.
Superprofs.com, which was launched in January 2014, seamlessly connects high quality professors and
students by providing their live and recorded lectures through online video streaming making classrooms more
accessible. This facility is enabling better access and learning possibilities for students and a wider reach for
professors. The platform is powered by state-of-the-art technology allowing live transmission of HD quality videos
at low bandwidth. It is an online live or recorded video delivery solution that brings classrooms of popular
professors for competitive exams, so that students can attend their classes anywhere, anytime, without having to
relocate to another city. More than 25,000 students have already registered on the platform and the company
has partnered with the most popular professors from Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai for various
competitive exams.
Speaking on the occasion, Piyush Agrawal, CEO and Co-founder of Superprofs.com, said, Over the last few
years online channels are gaining rapid adoption, from booking travel tickets to finding the right life partner! A
large number of users have started using the Internet for education in general and specifically for preparing for
exams. Besides tier 1 cities, we are increasingly witnessing a significant number of students from tier 2 and 3
towns who earlier could not prepare well for such exams due to a lack of good teachers in their city, adopting
online exam preparation at SuperProfs.com. We are happy to have Kalaari Capital and IDG Ventures as our
partners in our mission to make quality education accessible to the masses! The funds raised will be used to
expand our offerings into more exams like IIT-JEE, IAS, CAT, Bank PO etc.