Kochi-based online learning app Entri.app has raised $7 million in a Series A round of funding led by Omidyar Network India.

The funding round also saw participation from Boston-based Innospark Ventures and Integrated Capital, a Hong Kong-based private equity. Angel investors Gokul Rajaram (a board member of Pinterest and Coinbase) and Sriram Krishnan, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z), a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, also participated in the round, among others. 

As per the startup, the freshly raised funds raised will be utilised for content development across existing and new languages, senior-level hirings, and strategic acquisitions that will accelerate Entri’s growth.

Entri.app | Vernacular Learning App For Job Skills

Launched by Mohammed Hisamuddin and Rahul Ramesh in 2017, Entri.app is a vernacular language learning platform for India that is focused on helping people acquire relevant job skills. 

Entri.app offers 500+ courses in eight languages – Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, and Odiya – to help aspirants prepare for different government job exams as well as improve their private job prospects.

Speaking about the development, Mohammed Hisamuddin, Founder and CEO of Entri.app, said,

“Entri.app is focused on the non-English speaking segment in India, which has over 40 crore people in the age group of 18-35. We feel that with the right kind of training and learning in their mother tongue, they can improve their employability chances and increase earning capabilities. We are focused on this segment and firmly believe we can impact more than four crore users’ lives in the next three years with the kind of headstart we have got.”

Empowering aspirants through its local language courses, Entri is part of LearnLaunch, a leading EdTech accelerator based out of Boston, Massachusetts. Some of its most popular course categories are Coding, Personal Finance, State PSC Exams, Spoken English, Teacher Exams, Nursing Certifications, and Engineering Technical Exams, among others.

The edtech platform claims to have over eight million registered users with more than 250,000 paid subscribers.

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