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Centre for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA)

start up
India - Bangalore, Karnataka
  • 17/11/2023
  • Unknown
  • $1,000,000

Centre for Teacher Accreditation (CENTA®) Private Limited is an end-to-end professional platform for teachers that works with 1 million teachers - probably the world's largest. CENTA aims to make teaching a more aspirational profession. CENTA works for teachers by:

1. Assessing and certifying the competencies of teachers
2. Connecting outstanding teachers to career opportunities, rewards and recognition
3. Supporting their professional development journey through the MyCENTA platform
CENTA is a Registered Certification Trademark in India.

CENTA runs:
Teaching Professionals' Olympiad (annual national competition)
Teaching Quotient (a score used by several schools in recruiting teachers)
CENTA Micro-credentials (certifications of excellence for promotions, and prestigious career opportunities)


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Ramya VenkataramanFounder

Ramya Venkataraman India - Bengaluru, Karnataka

Building the world's largest teacher community and teacher professional platform out of India! CENTA, a registered Certification Trademark, now serves 1.3 million teachers from 100,000+ schools and 7000 locations - certifying their competencies, supporting them with upskilling and creating a range of career growth and earnings opportunities for them, by working with schools, edtechs, governments and others, across the world. The idea is to make teaching an aspirational profession and therefore fundamentally impact quality of education. Personally, am an alum of IIT Delhi (1997 batch) and IIM Calcutta (1999 batch); was with McKinsey & Company for 15+ years - first 10 years in a range of sectors and last 5 years building our education practice in India - before taking the plunge into entrepreneurship in 2015.