Edutech Businesses for Sale and Investment Opportunities in Asia

• Dormant e-learning company with its own learning management system and e-learning contents: Company has connects with industry apex bodies and marquee clients, which the acquirer can leverage and also exploit the huge opportunities that are now available in EduTech space due to COVID pandemic effects. • Promoted by an ex-banker who moved into software sphere and gained vast experience and global exposure. He is one of the key functional architects of the world’s leading core banking software and a mentor for another one in Africa. He is very passionate about leveraging technology to benefit organizations and individuals through enabling, educating, evaluating and providing knowledge/skill solutions. • Was an early mover into EduTech space having started operations over 10 years back with a good start and was active for 6 years, attaining break-even point. Connected with various top-notch organisations in banking, retail, accounting, insurance, IT, education sectors to offer products/services or to partner with them. • Later, the company had plans for bigger things and approached investors with proposals. Unfortunately did not succeed in getting funds. Was lacking funds to market products, services and sustain and thus had to halt the activities. However, have been submitting statutory returns. Some highlights: • Service provider to the country’s apex body for banking and finance professionals (largest of its kind in the world) by designing, developing and deploying online learning sessions on banking under the software as a service (SaaS) model. It had about 37,000 registered users in a span of 6 years comprising of institute’s course students, clerical and officer recruits of about 18 banks. • Developed own e-learning platforms (Learning Management System or LMS). • Partnered with an apex body for the Indian retail sector, developed digital learning contents. • Designed and developed a unique e-commerce website (digital platform) for a well known NGO which has a presence in over 150 countries. • Developed video-based learning contents on insurance topics for an industry education organisation. • Had tie-ups with 7-8 big corporate clients during operations. • Partnered with one in the top 4 IT companies in India to develop e-learning contents. This contract is valid if the new buyer wants to continue this. • Was shortlisted by NASSCOM to design and develop digital contents on Info Tech topics for their project, but due to their internal reasons, the project did not take off. • Submitted proposals to many leading organisations/ industry leaders in various sectors.

- Company with an end-to-end school ERP and app (Android and iOS). - We have 50 paid clients with a 30% growth rate and a 95% customer retention rate. - The company is registered in Kolkata but has operations in both Bangalore and Kolkata. - We charge approximately INR 15 per student on a monthly basis and payment is made either quarterly, monthly, or annually. - We also generate revenue from convenience fees on online transactions for school fee collections. - We provide after-sales support to our clients. - We are bootstrapped, have no debt, and are a registered startup under the Govt. of India. - Our strong brand name and an already established presence in the eastern part of the country provide a strong growth opportunity. - Through the right investment in marketing and sales, this reach can easily be expanded to other parts of the country and abroad. With a high-profit margin and recurring revenue from our existing client base, it is one of the most profitable businesses in the edtech sector. - The company has two owners with an equal shareholding. - The company is registered in Kolkata but the primary office is located in Bangalore.

1. Online business bringing above 5X ROI (currently we spend INR 1 to 1.2 lakhs per month on ad spend, it can be scaled to INR 1 lakh per day with similar ROI), its 100% scale ready business with proper digital assets. 2. We have the complete blueprint to scale the business to INR 1 crore per month in revenue with proper sales funnel & marketing strategies. 3. Profit-making company. 4. Sales funnels & strategies up & working. All the course materials are up & automated with study materials. 5. Bootstrapped company. 6. Up-to-date Tax & GST filing. 7. Job-oriented course & freelance skill development. 8. Operational profitably for the past 4 years (officially registered on 5th July 2019) 9. One business with up to 3 sources of revenue stream (automated & HR driven) 10. More investors in the market to fund the venture. 11. 90% of the business is automated. 12. Revenue through coaching admission fee and 1-month salary after placement. 13. Have 3,400 paid users and 1,400 placement-ready candidates. 14. Business is registered in Bangalore and some of the operations are handled in Gulbarga. 15. The run rate sales have dropped compared to last year as we have reduced the number of employees, so the operations is moderate. 16. Two Tie ups with consultancy with low delivery cost & high quality service. Our consultancy guarantee the interviews. 17. Fully functional LMS _ CRM platform which is custom built.

- We are an edutech company providing courses from various fields such as business management, national level entrance exams, mobile & app development and many more. - Our beta version was released recently and we have more than 170 users out of which 70 paid users. - This customer base is acquired through organic marketing. - Our services are open for both B2B and B2C users. - For B2B customers we have tie-ups with 25 schools and colleges where the students will be taught using our platform. - We have a subscription-based revenue model and students can pay for courses using EMI. - Company has two partners with an ownership stake distribution of 45% and 55% respectively. - Business has not taken any loans previously. - More than 25 faculty have joined our platform.

- Edtech platform for online proctoring and learning management. - The platform has already been built and we are currently in the beta testing phase. - Intend to launch commercially in the next 3 - 4 months. - The platform is built by an in-house team, it is AI enabled and has a fully fledged analytics suite. - We also intend to integrate a career recommendation engine in the near future. - The platform can be used by academic institutions, corporates, and other learning management software providers. - The business intends to monetize under a freemium model and also charge institutions based on the number of tests proctored. - The promoter team has an average of 15 years of relevant industry experience across both education and software development. - The firm was initially started to offer e-commerce consulting services but we have pivoted to this. - We had not offered e-commerce consulting services in the past and do not intend to do so going forward.

- We believe the cause of learning problems faced by many in the high school lies in the early years. The quantity & quality of early learning changes the way children learn & think. The most powerful way to learn is doing rather than studying. - Our company specializes in manufacturing learning kits, books and also offers an in-house built curriculum for schools. - We supply our products to over 20K schools pan India. Apart from this, we have partnered with 1,500+ preschools and 250+ K12 schools to offer an entire curriculum. - We used to sell only the products to schools and recently diversified to offer an entire curriculum to schools. - Now our revenue for product sales and curriculum management is at nearly 50-50% ratio. - Sales have dropped recently as the schools have been closed due to the pandemic. - Company has a product range of more than 2,000 including books. - Factory has the capacity to produce INR 40Cr worth of books and toys per year. Until pandemic, we used to utilize around 50% of the capacity. - We have had one of the fastest-growing track record in this space growing from 25 to 250 schools in 2 years in just 2 zones (Bangalore and Kolhapur) because: 1. Our products deliver much higher than market learning outcomes as audited by FSG (www. fsg. org) through an independent agency. 2. It is one of the few integrated solutions, that includes every element needed to deliver quality education working seamlessly. 3. Strong productized education format enabling self-learning without too much teacher dependency. 4. The solution has been built for young children coming from our many years of experience in this space. Most other solutions are meant for children in higher classes, which have been back-worked into pre-primary, which does not suit young children. 5. With our own manufacturing set up, we are able to offer an unmatched value for money proposition which is critical in the price-conscious affordable private school market.

Our program has gained a strong value and opinion among the learning community. We made sure that the audience were clearly targeted. The brand we build and the leads we generated was focused and filtered. Our collaboration with E&Y and NMIMS / Jain University is under process by which we would also be able to provide skill based courses and graduation along with the professional courses. We have already collaborated with an educational institution Corserve to provide job-oriented courses like IFRS, SAP etc. Our marketing strategies over time have made sure that the program has entered the market. As a result bringing world class faculties to join our team and making sure that the students post their enquiry to our platform. We were successfully able to generate leads through our digital marketing with minimal ads and funds, making results more than Meta predictions. Our service rendered to the customers were specific and at it's best, making sure that the process was unmatched among the competitors. This resulted in gaining more trust and creating an image within the market.

Ulipsu is a flagship brand of Kidvento Education & Research Pvt Ltd. Founded in 2017, Kidvento has since then partnered with over 350 schools making learning interesting & joyful for 1,20,000+ students through curriculum solutions & tinkering labs pan India. Ulipsu is a software used by schools to skill students and augment their regular school courses. We offer multi-potential skill development for kids at affordable pricing. The software is offered through subscriptions ranging from INR 214 per month to INR 499 per month per student.