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Education Consultant Investment Opportunity in Dubai, UAE

EBITDA-positive edtech platform connecting students with exclusive university scholarships seeks investment for expansion.
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Established 1-5 year(s)
Employees 10 - 50
Legal Entity Limited Liability Company (LLC)
Reported Sales USD 650 thousand
Run Rate Sales USD 980 thousand
EBITDA Margin 30 %
Industries Education Consultants
Locations  Dubai
Local Time 4:33 PM Asia / Dubai
Listed By Business Owner / Director
Status Active
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Partial Stake Sale
USD 150 thousand for 5.0% stake (Native Currency: AED 550,000)
Reason: 1. Increase marketing spend to further accelerate revenue growth. 2. Provide an exit to one of our ... View More
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Business Overview
In 3.5 years we have -
1. Grown from $0 to $1M annual revenue.
2. Disbursed over $11.4 million in scholarships through our platform to students from middle-class and working class families.
3. Built a high growth startup that is EBITDA positive, cash positive, and ready to scale.
4. Built a highly efficient model - our return on ad spend is 45x.
5. Built a product that people love - 40% of enrolments through our platform come from referrals and our net promoter score is 40.
6. Established ourselves as the largest education marketplace in the UAE.
7. Platform has 450+ university partners, including almost all universities from UK, Ireland and Dubai.
8. We are active globally and receive high traffic from Asia, MENA and Africa.
Products & Services Overview
Our platform connects students with university scholarships. For every student that accepts the scholarship and enrols in our partner university, we earn a performance based commission. The average commission per enrolment is $3,500 per student.
We also work with universities for marketing and advertising through our platform. Marketing and advertising deals with universities range from $10,000 to $100,000 per university.
Assets Overview
Our primary asset is our website domain.
We have formal agreements with over 450 universities in Dubai, the USA and the UK, and this figure is growing rapidly.
Aside from this, we own a number of high-value domains that we will begin to develop in the coming 12 months.
We also have strategic collaborations in place with the following entities -
Gems For Life - The Gems Group is the largest K-12 provider in the world, and we work with them as their scholarships partner.
Skiply - Skiply is the school tuition payment platform of RAK Bank, and has access to 100,000 parents across UAE.
Facilities Overview
We are an online-based startup. All our processes are fully remote and online. Our head office is in Dubai Silicon Oasis, in Dubai the UAE. However, our team is fully remote and global.
Capitalization Overview
Funded through regular business operations. This year, we are on course for $1 million in revenue and $200k EBITDA. We expect to reach $2M revenue and $1.1M EBITDA in the next 2 years.
We raised a $100k seed round in 2021, $470k in another round in 2022 and $500k in 2023.
We do not have any debts or loans.
Business has 6 major shareholders.
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