Bhanzu, an Indian edtech startup, has raised $2 million as a part of its seed funding round led by Lightspeed. Angel investors and founders of Indian startups, including Nitin Gupta (Uni chief executive), Kunal Shah (Cred founder), Ashish Gupta (former Helion managing director) and Gaurav Munjal (Unacademy founder), among others, also participated in the funding round.

As per the startup, the raised funds will be used to scale Bhanzu’s live classes in multiple geographies, including the US, Canada, the UK, and the Middle East, and accelerate hiring across its tech and product teams.

Bhanzu | Math-learning Platform

Founded by Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash, who broke Shakuntala Devi’s record to become the ‘World’s fastest human calculator’, Bhanzu is a math-learning platform with a meticulously designed curriculum that helps students become 4x quicker and better at math.

Speaking about the development, Neelakantha Bhanu, Founder and CEO of Bhanzu, said,

“Bhanzu has already helped thousands of students realise their true potential. We are on our pathway to achieve the same, at global scale by questioning the very first principles of how students learn, perceive and apply math in the world around them.”

The edtech startup is working with a vision to build the most thought-through math curriculum using personalised AI-aided methodology, which builds confidence in students by enabling them to apply math in the real world. Since its inception, Bhanzu has clocked over a million teaching hours across a base of over 30,000 students.

Commenting on the development, Shuvi Srivastava, Vice president at Lightspeed, said,

“We are very excited to partner with Bhanzu in his mission to revolutionise math education. We have been awed by his journey from being a math enthusiast and educator to an entrepreneur and are proud backers of his vision to rethink how kids across the globe learn math.”

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