Adda247

India - Gurgaon, Haryana

• 30/11/2021
• Series B
• $20,000,000

Backed by marquee investors like Westbridge & Infoedge, Adda247 is India’s No.1 Government Job Preparation platform. Adda247 is also the largest vernacular test prep platform catering to the learning needs of aspirants in more than 12 Indian languages.

Founded by Anil Nagar and Saurabh Bansal in 2016, Adda247 aims to empower every Indian youth by providing them career guidance and quality education. Adda247 caters to approx 80-100 Mn government job aspirants across India, who usually have to put up with the substandard quality of courses provided by the local off-line players in this highly unorganized and fragmented market. The platform offers comprehensive solutions for all learning needs including - Online Live Classes, on-demand video courses, mock tests, E-book etc. Adda247 has one of the largest content repositories consisting of more than 3 million questions, over 50,000 hours of recorded video lectures as well as a state-of-the-art e-books library. Adda247 courses are available in 12 languages - English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Odia, Punjabi, Gujarati, Assamese, Malayalam and Bhojpuri.

Adda247 provides online courses for more than 300 Government Job exams in India including UPSC, State PSCs, Banking, SSC, Teaching, Defense, State Exams. Recently, Adda247 also acquired Study IQ Education to strengthen its offering for UPSC and State PSCs. Adda247 caters to users across India, primarily in Tier III and beyond (BHARAT) as more than 80% users come from smaller places.

Since inception, Adda247 has been an outcome focussed company and it has delivered phenomenal results over the years. No wonder, it has the highest share of selections in most of the prominent government exams in India. In a recent survey among the selected students of SBI PO 2019, it was found that a whopping 67% of the successful candidates were from Adda247.

Headquartered in Gurgaon, the brand has become one of the biggest and most preferred edtech players.

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Anil NagarFounder

India - Gurgaon, Haryana

Coming from a small village in Uttar Pradesh, Anil Nagar is a person who believes in self-created destiny and hard work. A graduate from IIT-BHU, he worked in strings of reputed organizations at echelon posts for a notable time.

However his never-dying love for education and his spirit to make a difference made him venture on the path of entrepreneurship. He founded Career Power in 2010, now Adda247, with the aim to provide one-stop solutions for various government test prep and entrance exams.

As he stands firm to his belief that no one should suffer due to lack of quality education, his initiative is now guiding millions of students in their quest for getting their dream job.

The clear vision and in-depth understanding of all the student issues has helped him in curating the best guidance for the aspirants. Growing under his dynamic leadership, Adda247 is on the path of becoming one of the largest education-technology companies in the world !

Follow him on his Twitter handle - @anilnagr

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anil-nagar/