Education start-up ‘Cuemath’ raises fund worth $4 million from Sequoia Capital

Cuemath is one of the many education start-ups by Cuelearn Pvt Ltd that has raised $4 million from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital India with participation from existing investor Unitus Seed Fund.

The firm had raised an undisclosed amount in August from Alok Mittal, former managing director of Canaan Partners.

With this funding, Cuemath will be spreading in the international markets and increase the number of teachers that use its platform from 1,200 to 5,000. The firm declined to say how many students use its platform.

Cuemath is amongst many other start-ups like Vidyanext, Genius, Flipclass and Vedantu that are using technology to help change after-school tuitions in India. It uses physical worksheets, quiz cards, along with other tablet-based content to develop the target students from lower kindergarten to Class 8. The local tutors sign up with the company as a part of the start up.

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“What we are essentially saying is that we don’t require someone to teach actively. Unlike others, in our case, the system is doing the teaching, and not the teacher. Math is the biggest need for children. Fitting many subjects into the same time slot will dilute the learning,” said Manan Khurma, founder of Cuemath.

When asked about the offline feature, they said;

“To deliver the most effective learning there has to be an offline component. A purely online pedagogy would not work especially for the segment of young learners. Training of the teachers is online, having an offline component is not a hindrance to scale,” said Khurma.

Cuemath is in six Indian cities: New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune.

Image Courtesy: Cuemath

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